Linda Joy Myers Ph. D. prize winning author of Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story is a Marriage and Family therapist and teaches memoir-as-healing workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally. Lindas work has been praised by reviewers healers and radio and television interviewers.
You can visit her web site at: http://www.lindajoymyers.com
For people who have been abandoned either literally by actual physical absence or emotionallya parent can be in the home and not there for usthe abandoned child syndrome may remain years later showing up through insecurities and fears clinging behaviors or its oppositewalls to intimacy.
Mothers who are neglectful selfish and abandoning do not set out to do these things they are a result of her own problems her own pain and maybe even mental illness. It is hard for us as her child to see this fully or to forgive it.
As a memoir teacher I find that people are very worried about the ethical issues involved in memoir writing. For example the writers ask such questions as what if I dont remember the exact conversation when my mother died or I dont know what clothes I was wearing the day my father went away forever.
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