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Author, therapist, teacher
 Linda Joy Myers
San Francisco, California, USA
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Memorable Quotes:
I have discovered that the cure for these fears is to write your story in a closed environment—only share it with your writing group or teacher. Keep your story to yourself as you write your first draft. Find a supportive group who understands the psychology of memoir writing and families; associate with people who will encourage you to write, and who will understand your need to heal through writing your story. Writing a personal story takes immense courage, and can heal generations of wounding. I found deep healing as I wrote and completed my memoir Don't Call Me Mother.
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Brief biography:
Linda Joy Myers, Ph. D., prize winning author of Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story, is a Marriage and Family therapist and teaches memoir-as-healing workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally. Linda’s work has been praised by reviewers, healers, and radio and television interviewers.
ARTICLES BY LINDA JOY MYERS |
I was able to break the chains of abandonment, but I still carry within me the memories of these passionate but disturbed women whose genes I carry. I am the last remaining witness to know and remembe...
Mothers who are neglectful, selfish, and abandoning do not set out to do these things, they are a result of her own problems, her own pain, and maybe even mental illness. It is hard for us as her chil...
There is good news about all this: You can change these old patterns. It takes time, awareness, determination, and work on your part, but it can be done.
For people who have been abandoned, either literally by actual physical absence, or emotionally--a parent can be in the home and not there for us--the abandoned child syndrome may remain years later, ...
When we write memoir, we reclaim our own voice, we stake a claim to our version of the story. Every family has multiple story lines. There is the “official” version, controlled by the most powerful pe...
As a memoir teacher, I find that people are very worried about the ethical issues involved in memoir writing. For example, the writers ask such questions as, “what if I don’t remember the exact conver...
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