Looking for the Gold

I’m very excited today–my friend Sue Silverman’s book Fearless Confessions just won Honorable Mention in the ForeWord Review’s Book-of-the-Year Award in the category of Writing. I’m celebrating with her as I think today of the challenges and joys of writing memoir. For me, her book speaks of some of the most important issues that arise [...]

Truth and Secrets

And there’s the hot topic in all my memoir workshops: secrets. Secrets are energy magnets. The force it takes to keep secrets hidden is energy that could be used for growth and creativity. So often though, the shame and guilt associated with secrets keep feeding the darkness and the fear. Secrets maintain a great power over us, and we are diminished by them.

The Personal History of a Book’s Life—The Power of Memoir

My newest book The Power of Memoir—How to Write Your Healing Story has just been released by Jossey-Bass. I’m thrilled about this, because the road to getting to a large publisher has been long and confusing. Often I had to traverse through unknown terrains to get where I am now: holding a brand new copy of my book. The cover is soft and silky, it glows in colors of amber, the pages smell good inside. Confession: I’m a book sniffer.

The Power of Memoir is on Kindle!

I wish everyone a Happy New Year, and I hope that if you feel the desire to write, that today you will sit down and listen to that voice within you, and write.