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Welcome to Memories and Memoirs. We are dedicated to honoring and preserving your memories. We offer workshops, online classes, and teleseminars to help you write your stories.
Spring Retreat in Calistoga, CA! April 4-6, 2008 http://www.memoriesandmemoirs.com/retreats.html Our annual Body and Soul spring writing retreat in Napa Valley is in the wine country with its beautiful views, world famous wine, and mud baths. The weekend retreat gives you an opportunity to relax in a lovely place, and to join other writers for a weekend of story writing, sharing wisdom, and learning new tools to take away with you.
Writing your memoir Writing a memoir is a challenge on many levels. It asks us to review our life--who we are, what roles we played in our family and with friends, and it asks us to expose ourselves deeply on the page. We also must confront certain very real psychological issues and emotional challenges:
In my book Becoming Whole and in all my classes and workshops, I address these issues and more:
My Beginnings I think I was seven years old when I began to learn about the power of true stories. During the summers, I would lie in a featherbed beside my great-grandmother, Blanche. She was the mother of my grandmother who was raising me instead of my mother, and I loved to listen to her craggy wisdom--she was eighty and I was eight. (She is in the photo on the left with my grandmother as a baby.) Blanche, her teeth in a jar beside the bed, whispered to me the stories of her life—crying wtih joy the first time she heard a voice on the telephone; friends in covered wagons stopping to say goodbye before setting off to settle in the wilds of Kansas. She told me about feeding fourteen farm hands and seven children, working in the garden to grow the food to can for the long, cold winters. Her young husband Lewis died two months after the wedding when she was twenty-one years old, and pregnant with my grandmother. I learned how the past shapes the future. In my late thirties I began my career as a psychotherapist, tracing the threads of people’s hurt places, learning the power of their family stories. I helped them to weave together the missing pieces. My secret dream had always been to write the stories that Blanche gave me, as well as to tell about three generations of mothers who had abandoned their daughters. Determined to learn about myself and to heal this pattern, I worked on it in therapy, and began to write what became my prize-winning memoir Don't Call Me Mother.
Write Your Story! Many people tell me about a small voice that whispers in their ear: "Write your story." They find it hard to begin, or to free themselves from the inner critic. They wonder and worry about what the family will say, or struggle with guilt and shame. We are here to help!
Sign up for our montly newsletter--see above. Each issue has inspirational stories, writing prompts and resources to help you begin your memoir. And when you sign up, you get a free audio download! Call or write to me with any questions. 1-877-ememoir (363-6647) 510-524-3898 |
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Call or write to me with any questions. 1-877-ememoir (363-6647) 510-524-3898 ___________________________ |
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