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
Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D. is the president of the National Association of Memoir Writers. and the author of the prize-winning memoir Don't Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother Daughter Abandonment. Her new book The Power of Memoir--How to Write Your Healing Story was released in 2010 through Jossey Bass publishers.
Linda has been a therapist in Berkeley for the last thirty years, and received her MFA at Mills College.
Through her workshops, online coaching, and speaking engagements, Linda integrates the principles of healing and creativity in presenting the powerful healing process of writing true stories. Her first book Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story was used as a text by therapists, ministers, and writing coaches, and was a finalist in the ForeWord magazine's 2008 Book of the Year Award. Linda's prize-winning nonfiction and poetry has been published in various literary journals. Her novel excerpt, Secret Music, a novel about the Kindertransport, music, and redemption was a finalist in the San Francisco Writing Conference contest.
Linda is past-president of The California Writers Club, Marin branch, and former Vice-President of the Women's National Book Association, and has served on the board of Story Circle Network.
