Life is complicated, and getting more so every day. When confronted with trauma, life transitions, or epiphanies, how do we navigate those challenges and turn them into opportunities for healing and transformation? For many of us, the answer is journaling. Writing offers a feeling of empowerment and facilitates the healing process, pulling us through difficult times. Of course, we cannot erase our history, but we can reflect, and examine our experiences as a way of better understanding them, how they've contributed to who we are today, and what our future might hold. Writing encourages us to reflect on our innermost feelings, thus helping to create an all-encompassing feeling of harmony and peace of mind.

Be inspired to share the story only you can tell. Utilizing means of soulful and creative expression, this course will introduce you to the magic of memoir writing. When we first begin to write, we never know where it will take us as we dive into our subconscious and imaginative mind. Writing, memoir writing especially, enables us to organize and share our truth as we navigate our journey. This magic of self-discovery is what leads to healing and transformation.

You will learn about the power of writing to heal and transform, how to get into and stay in the writing zone, how to cultivate self-awareness, how to find your voice, how writing heals and transforms, the challenges of memory, tips on examining your life, how wounded healers become storytellers, the challenge of writing about difficult times, finding focus in a memoir, tips for writing a compelling memoir, how to identify the memoir’s focus, and how to begin working on your memoir’s structure.

What you will learn in this course:

• What is journaling and why it matters
• The important differences between memoir, biography, and autobiography
• Tips for getting into the writing zone
• How to cultivate self-awareness
• Using your voice to speak your truth
• Memory vs. imagination
• Wounded healers as storytellers
• The basics of memoir writing
• How to turn your memories into a memoir
• How to read like a writer
• Addressing mid-memoir blues
• What to include in your memoir, and what to leave out
• Using poetry as your guide
• The importance of editing and revising
• How to share your work

Who should take this course:

• Men and women interested in learning the important basics of memoir-writing, regardless of prior writing experience.
• People who want to take their writing aspirations to a deeper level.
• Everyone who is curious about writing, even if you have not written anything in a long time or more formally before.
• Writers with previous memoir-writing experience, who want to return to the process.
• Anyone who wants to welcome more creativity into their life.

There is only one person in this world who can tell your story -- you. Finding your voice and sharing your truth will not only help you make sense of your life and possibly help you heal, but it can also enable you to focus on what’s most important to you, and help you determine your reason for being, which will ultimately lead to a profound sense of contentment.

Life is complicated, and getting more so every day. When confronted with trauma, life transitions, or epiphanies, how do we navigate those challenges and turn them into opportunities for healing and transformation? For many of us, the answer is journaling. Writing offers a feeling of empowerment and facilitates the healing process, pulling us through difficult times. Of course, we cannot erase our history, but we can reflect, and examine our experiences as a way of better understanding them, how they've contributed to who we are today, and what our future might hold. Writing encourages us to reflect on our innermost feelings, thus helping to create an all-encompassing feeling of harmony and peace of mind.

Be inspired to share the story only you can tell. Utilizing means of soulful and creative expression, this course will introduce you to the magic of memoir writing. When we first begin to write, we never know where it will take us as we dive into our subconscious and imaginative mind. Writing, memoir writing especially, enables us to organize and share our truth as we navigate our journey. This magic of self-discovery is what leads to healing and transformation.

You will learn about the power of writing to heal and transform, how to get into and stay in the writing zone, how to cultivate self-awareness, how to find your voice, how writing heals and transforms, the challenges of memory, tips on examining your life, how wounded healers become storytellers, the challenge of writing about difficult times, finding focus in a memoir, tips for writing a compelling memoir, how to identify the memoir’s focus, and how to begin working on your memoir’s structure.

What you will learn in this course:

• What is journaling and why it matters
• The important differences between memoir, biography, and autobiography
• Tips for getting into the writing zone
• How to cultivate self-awareness
• Using your voice to speak your truth
• Memory vs. imagination
• Wounded healers as storytellers
• The basics of memoir writing
• How to turn your memories into a memoir
• How to read like a writer
• Addressing mid-memoir blues
• What to include in your memoir, and what to leave out
• Using poetry as your guide
• The importance of editing and revising
• How to share your work

Who should take this course:

• Men and women interested in learning the important basics of memoir-writing, regardless of prior writing experience.
• People who want to take their writing aspirations to a deeper level.
• Everyone who is curious about writing, even if you have not written anything in a long time or more formally before.
• Writers with previous memoir-writing experience, who want to return to the process.
• Anyone who wants to welcome more creativity into their life.

There is only one person in this world who can tell your story -- you. Finding your voice and sharing your truth will not only help you make sense of your life and possibly help you heal, but it can also enable you to focus on what’s most important to you, and help you determine your reason for being, which will ultimately lead to a profound sense of contentment.