Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story

Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story goes beyond a how to write a memoir book into the significant research and transformative process of story writing. A licensed clinical therapist, Myers demonstrates the power of a memoir to bridge, integrate, and heal the past. She draws on her family therapy background to write about the psychology and ethics of memoir writing and answers tough questions memoir writers face how can I heal, how can I write the truth, what about forgiveness, will my family be angry at me? Becoming Whole includes powerful exercises to help writers develop a successful and authentic story; definitive, life-stage writing invitations to guide the writer; a special section for therapists to apply memoir writing for clients; appendices with meditations and affirmations; a selection of memoir stories from real people; selected bibliography of writing resources and published memoirs