Putting your life on the page with Ann Patchett, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Julia Samuel and Arifa Akbar
Woman's Hour
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Writing as Therapy
i'm never quite sure whether this is memoir in general, or whether i attract people who ave no tragedy. When i teach residential courses, there eno looking round the room, there is a lot of suffering. We all cross from innocence to experiencet all sorts of changes. So often people are moved to write about something big. And then one of the things i really liked about people that wrote to me, sometimes they're writing about things we have in common, like it's a sibbling death, or it's a long det. But often it's just the things we has in common that we feel a lot of guilt, we feels a lot of shame that gets
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