6-Week Live Online Class
Mondays, Starting 2nd March 2026
5 PM PST | 8 PM EST

The Memoir Way

I don't believe writing heals because it's expressive. 
I believe writing heals because it's specific.

Most people don't get stuck beause they don't want change.
The get stuck because they remember the story of what happened — not what actually happened.

We say things like:

I was abandoned.
I failed.
I chose the wrong person.

Those conclusions.
They're shorthand.
They're not memories.

Memoir, when done properly, reverses that shortcut.

It brings us back to the moment —
where we were,
who was there,
what was said,
what we did next.

That's where insight lives.
That's where choice becomes visible.
That's where change begins.

Memoir isn't about reliving pain.
It's about recovering and reconstructing experience so the next chapter can finally be written on purpose.

Stay with the scene.
It will show you what it knows.

Why Writing Memoir Frees You (two problems one method)

• Writing memoir — in scenes, not summaries — solves two problems at once:
• 1.  IT FREES YOU INTERNALLY.
• By restoring sequence, you begin to see what really happened — not just how you interpreted it at the time.
  You bring your adult perspective to moments lived with less information, less power, less maturity.
  What once felt fixed becomes understandable.
  What felt personal often turns out to be contextual.
• 2. IT FREES YOUR WRITING. 
• Scene-based writing is inherently more engaging than vague, abstract reflection.

  It’s more readable.
  More shareable.
  More publishable.

  You can edit later.
  But when you write this way, you’re no longer polishing fog.

THIS CLASS IF FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT:

▪️ Clarity, Not Collapse
▪️ Insight, Not Endless Processing
▪️ Freedom, Not Performance

It's a pair of glasses — especially for people who don't resonate with traditional recovery models, but still want truth, agency, and change.

You don't have to diagnose yourself.
You don't have to "fix" anything.
You just have to stay with the scene.

I've taught improvisational writing and memoir for decades — to thousands of people — live and online.

I didn't learn this from theory alone.
I learned it by trial and error.

I used this approach to:

▪️ get sober
▪️ change lifelong relationship patterns
▪️ find my voice
▪️ build a creative life
▪️ and eventually, write toward the life I actually wanted

I know the difference between writing that feels good — and writing that changes something.

This class isn't about rushing to a finished product.  It's about learning a way of working that gives you material worth shaping.

Process matters here.
Because process is what makes the end result possible.

 You don't need to be healed to begin. 
You don't need to know the ending.

You just need to stay with the scene long
enough for it to tell the truth.