Linda Joy Myers

Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., author of Don’t Call Me Mother & Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story, has been a therapist in Berkeley for over twenty-seven years.

Dr. Myers combines her background in art, clinical work, and writing (she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College) to offer unique memoir workshops and trainings in the Bay Area and nationally. She is former president of the California Writers Club, Marin branch, and is now on the board of Story Circle Network.

Myers is an award-winning fiction, poetry, and non-fiction writer, her first book Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story has received many accolades and was featured on the Marin Bestseller's list in 2003. Excerpts from her memoir Don’t Call Me Mother has won several prizes, including first prize at the Jack London Writing Contest and ranked in the top five percent winners of the annual Writers Digest Writing Contest.

Because of her own journey through memoir writing, Linda appreciates the struggles and challenges that other writers face, and offers ideas and feedback to writers who are on the same path.

Listen to Linda Joy Myers' interview from
Kathleen Adams’ Journaling For A Better Life show.

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