The following quote from Will Meecham, whose mother memoir I post a few days ago, is one powerful answer to the question, “What’s in it for you to write mother memoir.”
“I want to emphasize how huge the impact of writing my mother-memoir turned out to be. Creating that piece provided me the confidence to start my blog, which in turn gave me a forum to work out some longstanding and serious emotional concerns. This soon prompted me to meditate more. As I meditated, the blog helped me make sense of my experiences, until I ultimately began entering improved states of consciousness. These eventually helped me break free of my chronic depression, and soon after I saw that my life’s purpose could be to carry this healing paradigm to others. Before long, the idea of acupuncture occurred to me in the ‘aha’ sense: I knew it was the right idea the moment it came to me.
Did the fact that I wrote about my mother really lead to this major healing and redirection of my life? I think so.
Your prompting me to write about my mother brought me in touch with a woman whose memory had been buried for decades. I like to think that my mother led me to this new path (interestingly, you prompted me to write the piece just before Mother’s Day, which in 2009 happened to fall on my mother’s birthday.)
So yes, the work you do has enormous power.
Best Wishes and Many Thanks. —Will”
I thank you, Will, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your path at long last, and that you attribute some of your success to writing your mother memoir. Nothing could make an author/teacher happier than to know her work made an impact such as this.
In case you missed it, scroll down or click here to read Will’s story and author bio.
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