How Seeing a Therapist Helped Me Finish the First Draft of My Memoir

By Heather Sweeney

I knew from the first sentence that writing a memoir about my divorce would lead me down an emotional path I wasn’t quite sure I was ready to revisit. But when I started seeing a therapist to cope with the pandemic, I soon discovered my weekly sessions were serving a purpose I hadn’t intended: coping with my memoir.

When I first dug out the storage tub that housed over twenty years worth of journals and another box filled with old photo albums, I jumped into my p...