Memoir as medicine: the healing power of writing your messy, imperfect, unruly (but gorgeously yours) life story - Nancy Slonim Aronie

A wonderfully fresh and frank guide to why and how to write personal stories that will heal, liberate, inspire -- and entertain -- both writer and reader Writing has been medicine for Nancy Slonim Aronie.

At nine months old, her son Dan was diagnosed with diabetes.

Then, at twenty-two, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

During the years she and her husband took care of Dan, and when he died at age thirty-eight, Aronie could not find the book she needed.

So she wrote her memoir.

In teaching memoir writing, Aronie has found that everyone has a story to tell and that telling it is important.

Sharing this is who I am, these are the things that shaped me, this is where I am now allows a kind of magic and healing to happen.

Over decades of writing and teaching, Aronie has created a set of prompts, directions, and examples that she shares in Memoir as Medicine .

She shows readers how to write through where they have been and into deep understanding, profound healing, and even unexpected joy.