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Writing Trauma: Notes of Transcendence, #6—Memoir’s Ladder to Recovery

ByTracy Strauss December 1, 2016

Through his words, the writer calls for change. He transforms traumatic experience from a state of helpless victimhood into one of empowered transcendence.

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Writing Trauma: Notes of Transcendence, #2–The Book as Companion

ByTracy Strauss August 26, 2016

Examining painful truths, I left behind the stories. I developed an aversion to reading. When I picked up a book, it was as if my brain closed a door. How could I, a writer and an English professor, no longer have a desire to read?

Richard Hoffman

Writing Trauma: Notes of Transcendence, #6—Memoir’s Ladder to Recovery

Writing Trauma: Notes of Transcendence, #2–The Book as Companion

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