Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life - Paperback
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Comprehensive Seven-Step Guide to Memoir Writing
Writing for Bliss is a structured seven-step guide that teaches you to harness the therapeutic power of memoir writing and storytelling. Author Diana Raab, PhD, combines practical writing techniques with transformative self-discovery exercises to help both novice and experienced writers craft their personal narratives.
What You'll Learn
This memoir writing guide provides structured techniques for tapping into your creativity through storytelling and poetry, examining how life-changing experiences inspire authentic writing, and pursuing self-examination through the written word. Raab shares intimate stories from her own life—including loss, cancer struggles, and complex family relationships—giving you permission to explore your own vulnerable truths.
The seven-step plan includes guidance on reading like a writer, addressing your audience authentically, and finding the right form for your story. With numerous writing prompts and exercises, you'll discover how published writers have been transformed by their craft and learn to apply these same principles to your own work.
Praise from Industry Experts
Publisher's Weekly calls it "a thoughtful and detailed primer" that targets anyone interested in memoir writing, praising Raab's willingness to share intimate stories that encourage writers to take their own "voyage of self-discovery."
Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of The Art of Healing, notes: "By listening to ourselves and being aware of what we are saying and feeling, the true story of our life's past experience is revealed. Diana Raab's book gives us the insights by which we can achieve this through her life-coaching wisdom and our writing."
James Brown, author of The Los Angeles Diaries, praises Raab as "a powerful, wise, intelligent guide" who leads readers through the writing process "with such enormous compassion, amazing insight, and kindness."
Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is an award-winning memoirist, poet, and workshop facilitator with nine published books and over one thousand articles and poems to her credit. Her expertise in writing for healing and transformation stems from her PhD in Transpersonal Psychology, where she researched the therapeutic aspects of memoir writing. A registered nurse and former medical journalist, Raab has spent decades inspiring people from all walks of life to write their stories. She blogs regularly for Psychology Today, PsychAlive, and The Huffington Post, and serves on the board for Poets & Writers.
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About the Author
Raab, Diana: - Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is a memoirist, poet, blogger, workshop facilitator, thought provoker, and award-winning author of seven books and over a thousand articles and poems, as well as the editor of two anthologies. Her passion and expertise is in writing for healing, transformation, and self-empowerment. She is very interested in creativity and what drives the creative process. Her early inspiration came from reading the journals of Anaïs Nin, as she was impressed by Nin's candor and honesty. Raab has been writing since childhood, when her mother gave her a Kahlil Gibran journal to help her cope with the loss to suicide of her beloved grandmother. Raab's MFA is in nonfiction writing from Spalding University, and her PhD is in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (aka Sofia University), where she researched the healing and transformative aspects of memoir writing. She is also a registered nurse and was a medical journalist for more than twenty-five years. For decades, Raab has been a motivating force, inspiring others to write the stories and narratives of their lives. She has worked with those from all walks of life, including esteemed writers, business people, published and emerging writers, cancer survivors, and those surviving various types of trauma. A world traveler, Raab was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has lived in Montreal and Florida. She currently resides in Southern California with her husband of four decades. She has three grown, creative, and entrepreneurial-driven children and two grandchildren. When not writing or offering workshops, she may be found meditating, hiking, nurturing her bonsais, or sitting on a cliff or by the sea crafting poems and musings in her journal. Raab serves on a number of boards, including that for Poets & Writers, and she is a trustee at the University of Santa Barbara (UCSB). She blogs regularly for Psychology Today, PsychAlive, and The Huffington Post. For more information, visit www.dianaraab.com.
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Comprehensive Seven-Step Guide to Memoir Writing
Writing for Bliss is a structured seven-step guide that teaches you to harness the therapeutic power of memoir writing and storytelling. Author Diana Raab, PhD, combines practical writing techniques with transformative self-discovery exercises to help both novice and experienced writers craft their personal narratives.
What You'll Learn
This memoir writing guide provides structured techniques for tapping into your creativity through storytelling and poetry, examining how life-changing experiences inspire authentic writing, and pursuing self-examination through the written word. Raab shares intimate stories from her own life—including loss, cancer struggles, and complex family relationships—giving you permission to explore your own vulnerable truths.
The seven-step plan includes guidance on reading like a writer, addressing your audience authentically, and finding the right form for your story. With numerous writing prompts and exercises, you'll discover how published writers have been transformed by their craft and learn to apply these same principles to your own work.
Praise from Industry Experts
Publisher's Weekly calls it "a thoughtful and detailed primer" that targets anyone interested in memoir writing, praising Raab's willingness to share intimate stories that encourage writers to take their own "voyage of self-discovery."
Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of The Art of Healing, notes: "By listening to ourselves and being aware of what we are saying and feeling, the true story of our life's past experience is revealed. Diana Raab's book gives us the insights by which we can achieve this through her life-coaching wisdom and our writing."
James Brown, author of The Los Angeles Diaries, praises Raab as "a powerful, wise, intelligent guide" who leads readers through the writing process "with such enormous compassion, amazing insight, and kindness."
Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is an award-winning memoirist, poet, and workshop facilitator with nine published books and over one thousand articles and poems to her credit. Her expertise in writing for healing and transformation stems from her PhD in Transpersonal Psychology, where she researched the therapeutic aspects of memoir writing. A registered nurse and former medical journalist, Raab has spent decades inspiring people from all walks of life to write their stories. She blogs regularly for Psychology Today, PsychAlive, and The Huffington Post, and serves on the board for Poets & Writers.
From Loving Healing Press www.LHPress.com
About the Author
Raab, Diana: - Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is a memoirist, poet, blogger, workshop facilitator, thought provoker, and award-winning author of seven books and over a thousand articles and poems, as well as the editor of two anthologies. Her passion and expertise is in writing for healing, transformation, and self-empowerment. She is very interested in creativity and what drives the creative process. Her early inspiration came from reading the journals of Anaïs Nin, as she was impressed by Nin's candor and honesty. Raab has been writing since childhood, when her mother gave her a Kahlil Gibran journal to help her cope with the loss to suicide of her beloved grandmother. Raab's MFA is in nonfiction writing from Spalding University, and her PhD is in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (aka Sofia University), where she researched the healing and transformative aspects of memoir writing. She is also a registered nurse and was a medical journalist for more than twenty-five years. For decades, Raab has been a motivating force, inspiring others to write the stories and narratives of their lives. She has worked with those from all walks of life, including esteemed writers, business people, published and emerging writers, cancer survivors, and those surviving various types of trauma. A world traveler, Raab was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has lived in Montreal and Florida. She currently resides in Southern California with her husband of four decades. She has three grown, creative, and entrepreneurial-driven children and two grandchildren. When not writing or offering workshops, she may be found meditating, hiking, nurturing her bonsais, or sitting on a cliff or by the sea crafting poems and musings in her journal. Raab serves on a number of boards, including that for Poets & Writers, and she is a trustee at the University of Santa Barbara (UCSB). She blogs regularly for Psychology Today, PsychAlive, and The Huffington Post. For more information, visit www.dianaraab.com.
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