The Soul of Your Story: A Five-Week Memoir Writing Intensive

Are you a business visionary, thought leader, therapist, or spiritual teacher who’s longed to write a memoir? Or perhaps you’re a human, like anybody, and you know in your heart that you have a powerful personal story to tell. Are you an aspiring author who longs to share your wisdom/gold with the world?

If you’re reading this page, I suspect you’ve tried to write your book. I imagine you began to get words on the page and even made a heroic effort to finally do it. But then you stopped halfway or perhaps just a few pages in.

Why?

Because you realized you didn’t know what you were doing. You understood that you needed more tools and knowledge about the craft of writing.

Or maybe you had a crisis of faith in yourself and stopped. Self-doubt won the day.

I understand how you feel.

I’ve been a professional editor and writer at the highest levels of publishing for 30 years. I’ve edited countless memoirs and nonfiction books and written hundreds of articles. I was one of the few who made a living as a writer.

But I was haunted and felt unfulfilled because I hadn’t written the memoir I longed to write. For a decade, I tried to tell my life story about how I overcame PTSD and addiction and learned to live and thrive again. But I fell short of my dream. I failed despite my intimate knowledge of the craft of writing.

It’s true. I tried five or six times. I wrote hundreds of pages that amounted to nothingAnd then, while meditating before my daily writing session one morning, something clicked. I literally heard and felt a click, like when you hear the tumblers of a lock click into place. I grabbed a piece of paper and pen and wrote these two words: stories and courage. 

I realized that I had been making things too complicated. I realized that a memoir comes down to two things: 1) telling powerful stories and 2) having the courage to be vulnerable with emotions and sharing deeply from the heart.

Writing a memoir is about telling great stories about how you were transformed by life and then building a bridge to your readers’ hearts by sharing with radical emotional honesty.

The great wisdom teachers like the Buddha and Jesus knew this. The heart is where we are connected.

 I began telling straightforward, powerful stories, followed by passages in which I wrote with radical emotional honesty…from deep in the heart.

I immediately sat my butt in the chair and began to write again. And this time, it poured out of me.

I wrote my 320-page book in six months–and then I sold it to a major publisher.

My memoir, Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing, was published last spring by the Hachette Book Group, a Big Five traditional publishers.

The day my book was released to the world, I realized I had stumbled on a powerful method that I could teach others. And they could finally write their memoir.

I combined all of my writing experience and knowledge–thirty years of it–with the lessons I learned writing my memoir “from the heart.” My goal was singular: help others achieve their dream of writing a memoir or nonfiction teaching book.

 Eventually, I developed my The Soul of Your Story: A Five-Week Memoir Writing Intensive.

This powerful course will teach you to write from radical emotional honesty and vulnerability and connect with others through the heart. It also teaches you:

-how to figure out what your book is really about.

-how to structure your book

-how to become a master storyteller

-how to pivot on your stories and share your hard-won ‘heart-ful” wisdom

-how to reflect and share the lessons you learned from your past

-how to expand and contract time to write powerful “you are there” scenes

-how to keep going when you lose faith when you arrive at your book’s messy middle.

-how to turn yourself into a coherent character while maintaining honesty

-how to not be pushed around by your memories.

-how to write the all-important “all is lost” section of your book

how to write with suspense so your reader gets to the end.

-and more.

You can do this. We can do it together. We really should do this together.

Why?

Because not writing your book would be too painful to grasp.

Never telling your life story or sharing your hard-earned wisdom would leave you feeling unfulfilled and haunted, like I did before I wrote my book.

Not becoming the public speaker, consultant, or coach you aspire to become and not impacting the world would feel too painful.

The world needs your story. Your story can help heal the world.

The Soul of Your Story is the course for you. 

Embark on a transformative journey with me. Together, we will draw inspiration from various memoir classics as well as my recently published memoir, “Into the Soul of the World.” You will walk away with everything you need to write and finally finish and publish your memoir. I’ll provide you the insight, inspiration, wisdom, and tools–everything you need.