Post #12 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing and Healing – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
Finding Healing through Writing Your Memoir
The article we are publishing today, by Jane Rowan, looks at the ways that both journaling and writing for publication contribute to the healing process. As with all of our writing and healing blogs we hope this helps you look as ways that you can use writing to find healing in your life whether you are writing a memoir or not.
Have you found that writing is healing? If so, we invite you to send us your story of how writing has been a form of healing for you. Some find healing through journaling. Others find healing through writing their memoir. Perhaps there are other ways that writing has been healing for you. Just email between 200-600 words (or longer if you contact us first) to: Matilda (at) WomensMemoirs (dot) com. We are interested in publishing your thoughts on writing and healing on this website — either with your name or anonymously, your choice.
WRITING AS THERAPY, WRITING AS WRITING
by Jane Rowan
I’d already been a passionate journal writer for twenty years when I first got an inkling that I might have been sexually abused as a child. I had a wonderful therapist, but I needed an everyday friend to hear my ramblings. I’d sit at my kitchen table and scrawl, no structure, no cohesion, just the outpouring of doubt and pain.
I followed Peter Elbow’s advice of “freewriting,” letting it [click to continue…]
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