Writing this book was a necessary act of vulnerability that revealed important areas of healing for herself.

“If I didn't put that out I wouldn't have seen that next place of healing that I needed”

Writing her memoir was a way to keep living her life in a way that felt true rather than a means for revenge or validation.

“I had to write this to keep living my life in a way that felt felt true.”

Writing a memoir about her complicated mother was a creative necessity that required presenting an unvarnished and unresolvable portrayal rather than an acceptable version of their lives.

“But but to me it wasn't so much of a struggle because I think what was incredible about her was that there was there was a part of her which which which hammered me but then it also created me but then there was this public part of her which was so extraordinary you know so I could never settle on w”

Writing a memoir is a means to achieve attention and provide a space for complete honesty.

“I wrote this for attention, but are you like prepared? Like are you like like all that? >> know if I am, honestly. Like I think it's so crazy cuz I've spent 2 years or a year actually writing it completely, but 2-year process of doing this whole thing. And it was great. It was in my the privacy of m”

A memoir is an effective narrative format for exploring life lessons through personal storytelling.

“it’s not really a memoir, more like a bunch of life lessons explored in a narrative format, which allow Ryan and me to flesh out many of the topics we touch upon at our website, theminimalists.com, expanding on those topics by way of storytelling and conversation.”

The speaker published her memoir as a way to share her personal history and her evolving perspective on her religious upbringing.

“It's a memoir and uh we'll tell you more about it at the end, but wanted to just mention that.”

Writing his memoir felt like using a Ouija board that enabled him to recall memories he had not thought of in years.

“I started typing and the keyboard became like a Ouija board that actually worked and I suddenly was coming up with all this stuff I hadn't thought of in Forever you know I wanted to go down the basement with my writing mentally and it was taking me up to the attic for something I hadn't thought of i”