Diana Raab, MFA, PhD
About Diana Raab, MFA, PhD
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Writing Your Memoir, Writing and Publishing Your First Memoir, The Writer's Notebook, Healing Your History Through the Transformative Power of Memoir Writing and Writing for Healing and Transformation Through Writing
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Books by Diana Raab, MFA, PhD
“Writing for Bliss: A Companion Journal” (2019)
Writing for Bliss: A Companion Journal is the creative guidebook companion to the award-winning book Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life. Developed for the seasoned storyteller as well as the emerging author, this interactive journal is designed to be used alone as a self-discovery workbook, or in conjunction with Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life. Award-winning memoirist, poet, and teacher Diana Raab incorporates writing prompts, exploratory exercises, and inspirational quotes to lead you through the healing and transformational process of telling the story only you can tell--a story that is yours alone. In Writing for Bliss: A Companion Journal, you will: Find more than 184 pages of unique, actionable writing prompts and exercises Move at your own pace--navigating the landscape of your life authentically, guided by Diana s gentle approach Identify and explore pivotal life-changing scenes that have led you to this very moment Heal your wounded self and transform your life through the writing processPraise for the work of Diana Raab: By listening to ourselves and being aware of what we are saying and feeling, the true story of our life s past experience is revealed. Diana Raab s book gives us the insights by which we can achieve this through her life-coaching wisdom and our writing. --BERNIE SIEGEL, MD, author of The Art of Healing Only a talented writer who has fought hard to overcome life s many obstacles could take her readers by the hand and lead them through the writing process with such enormous compassion, amazing insight, and kindness. Diana Raab is a powerful, wise, intelligent guide well worth our following. --JAMES BROWN, author of The Los Angeles Diaries and The RiverDIANA RAAB, PhD, is an award-winning memoirist, poet, blogger, workshop facilitator, thought provoker, and survivor. She is the author of eight books, including Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life, and over one thousand articles and poems. Raab is a regular contributor to Psychology Today, Thrive Global, and others. She leads monthly in-person workshops throughout the country and offers a memoir writing course through DailyOM. She lives in Southern California.
“Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life” (2017)
Writing for Bliss is most fundamentally about reflection, truth, and freedom. With techniques and prompts for both the seasoned and novice writer, it will lead you to tap into your creativity through storytelling and poetry, examine how life-changing experiences can inspire writing, pursue self-examination and self-discovery through the written word, and, understand how published writers have been transformed by writing. ******"Writing for Bliss is about the profound ways in which we may be transformed in and through the act of writing. I am grateful to Diana Raab for sharing it, and I trust that you will feel the same as you read on. May you savor the journey." --from the foreword by MARK FREEMAN, PhDDIANA RAAB, MFA, PhD, is an award-winning poet, memoirist, speaker, educator, and survivor. She's the author of nine books and more than one thousand articles and poems. She lives in Southern California. Learn more at DianaRaab.comFrom Loving Healing Press LHPress.com
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