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	<itunes:summary>Record the Stories of Your Life, tips, how-to, memoir book reviews, by Jerry Waxler</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Why write memoirs after combat or other trauma</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/why-combat-memoir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Trauma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I began to teach memoir writing, I extended my understanding of how this works. The participants often shared their most painful moments. After they read their passage aloud, something changed in the room. People became more relaxed and open with each other, as if they had gone through the actual experience together. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/why-combat-memoir/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Recovering Self-concept after Trauma</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heal from Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Identity ought to be a stable thing. Once you find it, you should be set for life. But in reality, your ideas about yourself undergo continuous adaptation. We all adapt to the slow changes that unfold over years. And sometimes, our peaceful self-image is threatened by assaults so deep and swift they shake the foundations of sanity. Betrayal, divorce, job loss, combat trauma,  crime, abuse, disease, or death of a loved one can rip apart our trust that we know how to live in the world.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-concept-trauma/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fearlessly Confessing the Dark Side of Memory in this Memoir of Sexual Abuse</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-sexual-abuse/</link>
		<comments>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-sexual-abuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courage to Write]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heal from Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some dark memories are so compelling they draw you in and frighten or upset you. If you try to seal them back in their crypt, they remain squirming in the dark. Or you can face them fearlessly, and stay with them until you can shape them into a story. By using your words to describe them, instead of someone else's, you take away their power. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-sexual-abuse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>User&#8217;s Guide to the Brain by a Writer Who Lost Half of Hers</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/brain-stroke-insight-taylor/</link>
		<comments>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/brain-stroke-insight-taylor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hero's Journey]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jill Bolte Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[left-brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neuroanatomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right-brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stroke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The right half of the brain sounds lovely. Who wouldn't want world peace and inner harmony? Well, it turns out that die hard left-brainers downplay the glory of the right-brain, fearing that such "holistic ideas" are wishy-washy and vague, and lack the discipline required for a proper technical understanding of the world. Until the stroke, Jill Bolte Taylor prided herself on her rigorous thinking, feeling confident in the sharp distinctions, judgments and analyses of her left-brain. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/brain-stroke-insight-taylor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Awakening bad memories helps shape your new life</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-awakening-pain-can-heal-it/</link>
		<comments>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-awakening-pain-can-heal-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[60's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coming of age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madison Wisconsin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trauma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flashbacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protests]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The intern at the hospital who was accustomed to treating survivors of barroom brawls had no idea how violated I felt. Not wanting to order tests, he brushed off my headache. "Of course it hurts," he said. "You were kicked in the head." <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-awakening-pain-can-heal-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Story moves you to the next step</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Instead of keeping memories trapped in their original form, free them up with story.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Storytellers shed light on the horrors of war</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/homer-iliad-ptsd/</link>
		<comments>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/homer-iliad-ptsd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trauma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my journey to understand as much as possible about life writing, I consider the question many aspiring life writers raise. "Should I approach painful memories, and if so should the memories become part of my story?" Of course there is no one right answer, so to try to understand it more, I consider the pain that memoir writers reveal, and see what lessons I can extract from their stories. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/homer-iliad-ptsd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Writing about the dehumanizing memories</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Pain is part of life, but should it be part of memoirs? To understand, I read and look for lessons within the most painful of all, war memoirs.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:keywords>Myths, Trauma</itunes:keywords>
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		<title>Exclusive Interview with Xujun Eberlein Part 2</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-xujun-eberlein-2/</link>
		<comments>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-xujun-eberlein-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 12:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Author Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memoirs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trauma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Non-fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was young, whenever I read a new expression or adage in a newspaper or book, I hand-copied it into a notebook and made my own customized lexicon. That was how I acquired a large Chinese vocabulary. It is kind of ironical that at mid-age I'm repeating the same painstaking process for English now. I envision doing this for the rest of my life. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-xujun-eberlein-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive Interview with author Xujun Eberlein</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-with-author-xujun-eberlein/</link>
		<comments>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-with-author-xujun-eberlein/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Author Interview]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For some writers, it takes a big leap to transcend experience-based stories. I think I am like that. In my collection, about half of the stories can be said to be based on my own experience. The other half came from attempts to transcend and broaden that experience. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/exclusive-interview-with-author-xujun-eberlein/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Collapsed lives that turned into memoirs</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/collapsed-lives-into-memoirs/</link>
		<comments>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/collapsed-lives-into-memoirs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 11:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coming of age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memoirs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My own life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trauma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veteran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam War]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I try to explain my journey through life, those bad decisions and lost dreams keep coming back, fragmented, unkind, and confusing. Since I want to reveal an authentic tale of who I am, I might as well gather the broken bits of the past and figure out how to include them. By shaping them into a tale that is interesting to others, I can share parts of myself that have been hidden, and learn more about myself in the process. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/collapsed-lives-into-memoirs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>How to remember a life that fell apart</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Forgetting the past turns out to be a temporary state. As I try to explain my journey through life, those bad decisions and lost dreams keep coming back, fragmented, unkind, and confusing.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Trauma shatters story. Memoir helps rebuild it.</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/trauma-shatters-story-memoir-helps-rebuild-it/</link>
		<comments>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/trauma-shatters-story-memoir-helps-rebuild-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 11:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I, and most of the world, saw the 9/11 disaster on television, Artie Van Why saw it standing on the street outside the World Trade Center where the day before he had eaten lunch, and watched people laughing in the noonday sun. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/trauma-shatters-story-memoir-helps-rebuild-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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