Change Your Book and Change Your Life

By Allison K Williams

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Writing memoir is not therapy. Sure, the process of writing can be therapeutic, and journaling, free-writing, and writing with intention can be part of a healing process (ideally one with professional support). But writing for strangers to read, to be moved and entertained and perhaps even to apply the lessons of your life to their own is not therapy, any more than cabinet-making or art-quilting or singing in the choir replaces prescri...