Write the Memoir You're Afraid to Write
Write the Memoir You’re Afraid to Write delves deep into tried-and-true methods to help you, as an aspiring writer, draft your compelling personal stories.
Patricia L. Brooks’ nonfiction content takes you down the path of analysis and reflection about your own story. She opens the window to a structured well-organized design that can easily be followed. She also reveals excerpts from her own experiences that transformed her life for the better.
Easy-to-implement activities at the end of each chapter help you capture the essence of the content. She teaches you how to go deeper into your heart and soul, to write with more depth and feeling, and to build connections with readers. This emotional impact paves the road to successful publication and loyal readership.
Three Husbands and a Thousand Boyfriends
While her friends danced and partied at Woodstock, Patricia donned her first wedding dress. Haunted by her self-destructive patterns, she searched years for the one who would fill the emptiness in her heart.
This poignant and moving memoir follows Patricia’s dangerous journey through love addiction, domestic violence, and post-traumatic stress. Her raw reflections and conversations with God offer a glimpse into the heartbreaking chaos she survived. Patricia bares her soul and shares her harrowing experiences and emotional insights from her struggle to find the courage to accept her role in her own life. For every woman who has followed her heart instead of her head, Patricia’s story offers hope and inspiration.
Sick as My Secrets, A Memoir
Sick as My Secrets is a powerful, compassionate, moving memoir told by a strong and honest woman who overcame a desperate need for alcohol to handle stress in her young life. Patricia Brooks, immensely proud of her thirty-five years of sobriety, openly and lovingly reveals her compelling story of powerlessness, her journey to recovery, and a spiritual transformation from the lowest point in her life to the apex of her trust in God. Her tale is a testament to resilience, perseverance, and hope for all of us. This is a must-read for anyone recovering from addiction, asking questions about the recovery process, or curious about how a situation like this can happen to a not-so-ordinary young wife with a bright future.
Gifts of Sisterhood, Journey from Grief to Gratitude
Patricia reveals her upbeat and insightful personal story of the relationship she had with her youngest sister—her friend, her confidant, her soul mate—both growing up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and living almost 2000 miles apart as adults. Now God has taken her from the journey through grief to a place of inspiration that often accompanies acceptance and adjoins faith by calling her to share her sister’s gifts with you, by embracing her sister’s wit, charm and beauty with you and weaving together a meaningful story of love and courage inspired by real events and ideas you can use and reflect upon as you travel your own life’s journey.
Bounce Back
Earl Goldmann’s poignant and moving memoir is the story of a young boy growing up in Tillamook, Oregon, and the terrible injury inflicted by the man who should have been his mentor. As he struggled to understand and to forgive, an unexpected gift from a faraway relative gave him an outlet for channeling his anger into a positive life.
While playing basketball at Oregon State University, Goldmann is severely injured in a horrific car wreck and is forced to return to his hometown to recover. With his athletic scholarships gone, can he realize the life for which he always dreamed?
Intestinal Fortitude
Part autobiographical and part expose, Intestinal Fortitude weaves Earl L. Goldmann’s battles with physical injury, alcohol abuse, depression and recovery with his success as a basketball standout, teacher, and coach. His razor-sharp honesty and self-awareness reveal the difficult truth of losing an athletic scholarship he so desperately wanted. His stories are as humbling as they are heart-wrenching.
In this compassionate and moving memoir, Earl reveals how a not-so-ordinary young man, from a small town on the Oregon Coast, with so much potential, faced repeated trauma and stress in his life. His brave, truthful and detailed story addresses head-on the implications of alcohol, an unhappy marriage, and loss in his college years. Yet while searching for his identity through sports, he learns compassion and gratitude.