{"product_id":"memoir-as-medicine-the-healing-power-of-writing-your-messy-imperfect-unruly-but-gorgeously-yours-life-story","title":"Memoir as Medicine The Healing Power of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (but Gorgeously Yours) Life Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her decades of teaching memoir writing, Aronie has found thateveryone has a story to tell and that telling it is important. Being willing to share \"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 self-healing and teaching, Aronie has created a set of prompts, directions, and examples that show readers how to:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eget to the heart of what they need to say - and say it effectively\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eexperience the loss of regret and shame, as well as deep sorrow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eunderstand procrastination and move past the fear of writing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etell their stories in ways that create an incomparable legacy for children and grandchildren\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etreasure the way their writing can help others heal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wild Woman Medicine Show","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67782642762038,"sku":null,"price":26.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1773\/1117\/files\/9781608688074.jpg?v=1792522662","url":"https:\/\/wildwomanmedicineshow.ca\/products\/memoir-as-medicine-the-healing-power-of-writing-your-messy-imperfect-unruly-but-gorgeously-yours-life-story","provider":"Wild Woman Medicine Show","version":"1.0","type":"link"}