QuickTalk Friday Interview Series
Writing a Memoir To Heal Trauma
An interview with Cindy Heath
Do you want to heal intergenerational trauma?
And end that Mama or Daddy Drama so many have embedded within us for decades?
Write a memoir.
That’s what Cindy Heath has discovered by writing a memoir for three years and taking a plunge into painful emotions from her past.
And learning from her memoir mentors.
Cindy says she has come out stronger, happier, and with a greater understanding of herself as she begins draft two of her memoir in progress.
What made you want to write a memoir?
I am close to my younger sister, and I was staying with her because she had a knee replacement, and one day she said to me, “You know, you should write my memoir.” She has led a fascinating life with even more challenges than I’ve had in my life.
I said, “First, I have to learn to write a memoir, and then maybe I’ll work on mine, and then maybe I’ll write yours. She said, “You should write our story of growing up on a homestead in Alaska.”
And initially, that’s what I was going to do. I left Alaska at 17 and I was going to end my memoir when I was 20…
