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THE MEMOIR NOTES #15. Panning For Gold: Turning Your Experience into Story
Plus: the power of mapping your life, and a repost that shares easy ways to "collect and gather" your stories and other inspiration!
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THE MEMOIR NOTES #14: This Is The House That Mom Built
Our house looked just fine to anyone visiting. All seemed well and normal. But many things inside that house were broken. It was a dangerous place. They…
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THE MEMOIR NOTES #13: Breaking Secrets Over Our Knees
The Art of Healing: Writing Our Stories + Kintsugi as Tools for Reclamation and Meaning-Making
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THE MEMOIR NOTES #12: Why I still haven't bought a desk
How I discovered a family pattern buried in plain view
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THE MEMOIR NOTES # 11: Why Writers Always Say "Just Keep Writing"
You might be astounded by what you discover
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THE MEMOIR NOTES # 10: Your Higher Power Is Already Holding Your Book
No matter how much you did or didn't get done this year.
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THE MEMOIR NOTES #9: Stepping Into The Story and Walking the Path Within
What does walking the labyrinth have to do with writing and healing our stories?
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MEMOIR NOTES #8: Research and Revelations-The Hidden History of My Mother
How a greeting card from two decades ago helped me find one of my mother's best friends from childhood and opened a doorway to stories I had never heard
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MEMOIR NOTES #7: No One Really Cares About Your Story
Wait, what? Uncovering The Shadow In Your Healing Writing Process
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THE MEMOIR NOTES #6: Memory, Imagination and Small 't" Truth
how do we find our way through the maze?
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THE MEMOIR NOTES #5: On The Other Side Of "I Don't Know "
The meandering, bewildering, trustworthy experience of writing your story.
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THE MEMOIR NOTES #4: Upstairs/Downstairs/In-Between Life
Living In Multiple Worlds While You Write Your Story + Creating Emotional Capacity To Do This Work
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