Book Bonuses

A guided therapeutic exercise that uses five sensory pathways — places, people, body memory, senses, and turning points — to surface buried memories before you start writing. Uses proven techniques from clinical psychology adapted for memoir writers. Complete this exercise before starting your timelines and you'll never stare at a blank page wondering "what should I write about?"

Not every life transformation feels like a straight line. If your story involves cycles of addiction and recovery, repeating relationship patterns, or a midlife reinvention where you returned to the same life as a different person — this bonus chapter adapts the Hero's Journey into Dan Harmon's Story Circle, with a complete memoir mapping exercise.