Comments on: Memoir writing is a form of therapy http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/ Hundreds of Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs Wed, 16 May 2012 03:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/comment-page-1/#comment-3091 jerrywaxler Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:53:34 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/#comment-3091 Thanks for your comment, Bruce. I looked at your website. It contains much information about your ordeal. Congratulations for facing it and writing about it. Shame is a powerful obstacle for many memoir writers, and your leadership and insight could help others. Jerry Thanks for your comment, Bruce. I looked at your website. It contains much information about your ordeal. Congratulations for facing it and writing about it. Shame is a powerful obstacle for many memoir writers, and your leadership and insight could help others. Jerry

]]> By: Bruce Morse http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/comment-page-1/#comment-3090 Bruce Morse Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:38:03 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/#comment-3090 Thanks for your thoughts on the healing power of writing. I wrote and self-published a memoir of my journey to healing after a diagnosis of schizophrenia and the loss of my eldest son, (Forgive Myself) and I believe the process was very therapeutic. I felt it was the last tool I needed to let go of the shame I felt about my woundedness and to make peace with the past. Thanks for your thoughts on the healing power of writing. I wrote and self-published a memoir of my journey to healing after a diagnosis of schizophrenia
and the loss of my eldest son, (Forgive Myself) and I believe the process was very therapeutic. I felt it was the last tool I needed to let go of the shame I felt about my woundedness and to make peace with the past.

]]> By: Sharon Lippincott http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/comment-page-1/#comment-2592 Sharon Lippincott Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:18:04 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/#comment-2592 Jerry, you've outdone yourself with this elegantly concise combination of mini-memoir and process overview. You know the old saying, "If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." Memoir makes a powerful hammer, especially for the purpose of healing and insight. Jerry, you’ve outdone yourself with this elegantly concise combination of mini-memoir and process overview. You know the old saying, “If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” Memoir makes a powerful hammer, especially for the purpose of healing and insight.

]]> By: jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/comment-page-1/#comment-2588 jerrywaxler Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:09:18 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/#comment-2588 Sunny, Haha! Look - we've created a micro-story right here. Two years of time, two people, reading and loving and learning from memoirs. Time marches on leaving all these traces, and by drawing the lines through the dots we create amazing things. Glad you still like the ideas, which are essentially the same in this version as in the first, but in the more polished style I've developed in the two years since the first one. Thanks so much for the praise. It's one of the main currencies of the blogosphere. Jerry Sunny,

Haha! Look – we’ve created a micro-story right here. Two years of time, two people, reading and loving and learning from memoirs. Time marches on leaving all these traces, and by drawing the lines through the dots we create amazing things. Glad you still like the ideas, which are essentially the same in this version as in the first, but in the more polished style I’ve developed in the two years since the first one.

Thanks so much for the praise. It’s one of the main currencies of the blogosphere.

Jerry

]]> By: Sunny http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/comment-page-1/#comment-2587 Sunny Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:57:27 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/#comment-2587 Jerry, I have to laugh. I clicked down to comment on this essay and found my post from two years ago! I feel even more strongly than I did the first time that you are doing exceptional work. Kudos and thank you! :-) Jerry, I have to laugh. I clicked down to comment on this essay and found my post from two years ago! I feel even more strongly than I did the first time that you are doing exceptional work.
Kudos and thank you! :-)

]]> By: jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/comment-page-1/#comment-2584 jerrywaxler Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:47:22 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/#comment-2584 Hi Karen, I clicked over to your blog and see that we are on similar wavelengths. So many stories of true life surely will make us memoir writers and readers more knowledgeable about what really goes on in life, and creates the essence of wisdom. Thanks for this lovely and encouraging comment. Compliments like this are like manna for writers. Jerry Hi Karen,

I clicked over to your blog and see that we are on similar wavelengths. So many stories of true life surely will make us memoir writers and readers more knowledgeable about what really goes on in life, and creates the essence of wisdom. Thanks for this lovely and encouraging comment. Compliments like this are like manna for writers.

Jerry

]]> By: Karen Walker http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/comment-page-1/#comment-2581 Karen Walker Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:56:54 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/#comment-2581 Hi Jerry, You have brilliantly captured the art and process of writing a memoir in this essay - at least what the process was like for me. I began keeping a journal in 1978 when I lost custody of my son and it literally saved my life. But journal writing is not essay writing is not memoir writing. Thanks for doing what you do for us memoir writers. Karen Hi Jerry,
You have brilliantly captured the art and process of writing a memoir in this essay – at least what the process was like for me. I began keeping a journal in 1978 when I lost custody of my son and it literally saved my life. But journal writing is not essay writing is not memoir writing. Thanks for doing what you do for us memoir writers.
Karen

]]> By: Don Lafferty http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/comment-page-1/#comment-969 Don Lafferty Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:06:40 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/#comment-969 Bravo, my friend. Very nice work. Bravo, my friend. Very nice work.

]]> By: Virginia Lee http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/comment-page-1/#comment-604 Virginia Lee Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:40:19 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/#comment-604 I often refer to my blog as my therapy, Jerry. And yes, it's pretty much a memoir at least a third to half the time too. Writing about my life gives me perspective. I discovered the value of journaling when my life was very busy. Writing about it enabled me to step back and see my experiences with new eyes. Memoir writing can be just as useful. Also, I see writing about my life as a teaching tool for myself and others. So YES! Memoir writing is absolutely therapeutic. I often refer to my blog as my therapy, Jerry. And yes, it’s pretty much a memoir at least a third to half the time too. Writing about my life gives me perspective. I discovered the value of journaling when my life was very busy. Writing about it enabled me to step back and see my experiences with new eyes. Memoir writing can be just as useful. Also, I see writing about my life as a teaching tool for myself and others. So YES! Memoir writing is absolutely therapeutic.

]]> By: jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/comment-page-1/#comment-584 jerrywaxler Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:30:09 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/is-writing-a-memoir-therapeutic/#comment-584 Sunny, Thanks so much for your comments. I lolve that you have combined organizing and personal development in your blog and website. That's a good combination. Jerry Sunny, Thanks so much for your comments. I lolve that you have combined organizing and personal development in your blog and website. That’s a good combination.

Jerry

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