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9781421440804 | |
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June 29, 2021 | |
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Stories Are What Save Us
A Survivor's Guide to Writing about Trauma
In Stories Are What Save Us, Chrisinger shows—through writing exercises, memoir excerpts, and lessons he's learned from his students—the most efficient ways to uncover and effectively communicate what you've learned while fighting your life's battles, whatever they may be. Chrisinger explores both the difficulties inherent in writing about personal trauma and the techniques for doing so in a compelling way. Weaving together his journey as a writer, editor, and teacher, he reveals his own deeply personal story of family trauma and abuse and explains how his life has informed his writing.
Part craft guide, part memoir, and part teacher's handbook, Stories Are What Save Us presents readers with a wide range of craft tools and storytelling structures that Chrisinger and his students have used to process conflict in their own lives, creating beautiful stories of growth and transformation. Throughout, this profoundly moving, laser-focused book exemplifies the very lessons it strives to teach. A foreword by former soldier and memoirist Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country, and an afterword by military wife and memoirist Angela Ricketts, author of No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife, bookend the volume.
About the Authors
Reviews
"David Chrisinger is a deft and engaging storyteller. He compellingly weaves together his own inspirational and healing story with vibrant examples of the memoir form. Helping veterans and others who have experienced trauma to write their stories, this book fills a niche in the memoir-writing genre. I look forward to having it in my resource library."—Kathleen Adams, LPC, Center for Journal Therapy, Inc., author of Journal Therapy for Calming Anxiety: 366 Prompts to Help Reduce Stress and Create Inner Peace
"A timely book that will appeal to anyone looking for a way to tell their story and in doing so gain a better sense of control and peace. Stories Are What Save Us will be useful in courses and workshops on expressive writing, writing to heal, or trauma."—Adam Perlman, MD, MPH, Mayo Clinic Florida
"I was thoroughly engaged both by Chrisinger's stories of his family and friends, as well as his journey to craft his experiences into stories."—John Capecci, Living Proof Advocacy
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Paperback / softback | |
June 7, 2021 | |
9781421440804 | |
English | |
240 | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
.7 Pounds (US) | |
.7 Pounds (US) | |
$22.00 USD, £16.50 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Electronic book text | |
June 29, 2021 | |
9781421440811 | |
9781421440804 | |
English | |
240 | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
$22.00 USD, £16.50 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Other Titles by David Chrisinger
Because Data Can't Speak for Itself
Public Policy Writing That Matters, second edition
Other Titles in MEDICAL / Public Health
Lazaretto
Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak
Building a Unified American Health Care System
Other Titles in Public health & preventive medicine
Lazaretto
Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak
Modernizing Medicare