Don't Call Me Mother (49 page)

I’m so pleased that I can help others on their path to writing and publishing their memoir, and it’s such a pleasure to create new programs and toss around new ideas to help memoir writers with my colleagues Jennifer Lauck, Sharon Lippincott, Kathy Pooler, and Jerry Waxler. Thank you Kay Adams for inviting me to teach “The Power of Memoir” and other spiritual and inspiring writing courses at the Therapeutic Writing Institute.

I’m grateful to my oldest friends, Jodie Bevers, Keith Moore, and Eva Brauninger, for allowing me to bring them into my story, and for supporting me in telling it.

To my children, I say thank you for your patience and for the love you have brought into my life, including my three darling grandchildren. When I see them playing and smiling, I know that the path I took through the years helped to give them the freedom to be who they are, free of the pattern that shaped so many generations before them.

About the Author

Linda Joy Myers is founder and president of the National Association of Memoir Writers (namw.org) and co-president of the Women’s National Book Association, San Francisco. A national memoir speaker and coach, she’s the author of
The Power of Memoir: How to Write Your Healing Story
and the prize-winning memoir,
Don’t Call Me Mother
. Her new workbook,
The Journey of Memoir: The Three Stages of Memoir Writing
, will be released January 2013 through She Writes Press. She co-teaches the program Write your Memoir in Six Months with Brooke Warner, and offers teleseminars and workshops nationally. Visit her blog on how to write a successful memoir at memoriesandmemoirs.com.

Don't Call Me Mother (49 page)

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