Planning on Writing a Spiritual Memoir?: Resources
I’ve been writing with a group of three spiritual memoirists for the past two years. We are all part of my first spiritual director’s writing group: Elizabeth Jarrett Andrews Eye of the Heart Center online writing community. We call ourselves the “Deep Divers” and it has been a joy to write twice a month with these two wonderful writers. After two years, I realized I had written about 200 pages and I decided I need to start the editing process. Two books that have inspired me to tackle this project are poet Maggie Smith’s Dear Writer and the amazing Anne Lamott and her husband Neal Allen. If you are writing, spiritual or otherwise, you may find these books hugely helpful. You may also find support in joining the Eye of the Heart Center.
Writing your spiritual journey can bring deep peace and understanding to your life. To add a psychological bent through Internal Family Systems, I was a reader for my friend Elizabeth Venart, who wrote an engaging book that I believe would allow the kind of understanding needed to write a spiritual memoir. Her book is called, Trusting Your Highly Sensitive Self. Elizabeth’s writing will engage you whether you consider yourself a highly sensitive person, or you know someone who is.
