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Linda Joy Myers
Member since 05th December 2005
Occupation: Marriage and Family Therapist
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
01st February 2006
When we first decide to write, we feel good about it—we have memories and stories that form who we are. We want to explore ourselves, to capture times long gone and preserve them in story form. To leave a legacy about our lives. But other voices compete w...
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25th January 2006
The recent flap about James Frey's A Million Little Pieces has hit the media with a big bang, bringing the age-old debate about what is acceptable when writing memoir--a "real" story. Every time a memoir is released that gains media attention this debate ...
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01st January 2006
Many people I work with in therapy or in my writing-as-healing classes discover stories that surprise them—stories about the mistakes they felt their parents made, power imbalances in the family, or stories about physical or sexual abuse. The darker stori...
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01st January 2006
The woman on the couch looks up at me miserably, tears in her eyes, as she tells me about her most recent bad relationship. "I'm sick of choosing guys who aren't there for me. They seem great, they want me, they tell me how terrific I am, then either they...
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06th December 2005
My daughter puts her arms around me, her brown eyes soft and beckoning. Her rounded belly and motherly curves rest against me, and for a moment I choke up. She is pregnant with a girl baby whose middle name will be Joy like mine. She will be my first gran...
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06th December 2005
So many women talk about their relationships with their mothers—no matter how old they are. For some, their mother, from whom they have supposedly separated long ago, still occupies a central place in the psyche. She's too close, she's too much. She has a...
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