memoir

My daughter's question sent me back in time, and brought up old wounds. But I soon learned that my pain is not my daughters' pain.

The doctors handed me a word synonymous with slow, painful death, then told me I’d pull through. How do you process having cancer when you feel like a mere dabbler?

The author talks about her memoir about the death of her brother.

For two decades, Stephanie Reidy was too ashamed to ask for help. It wasn’t until she came out of the mental health closet that she began to heal. Now, she is devoted to helping to break the stigma around mental illness.

Leah McLaren is no stranger to publicly revealing the most raw details of her life in print. She shares what it's really like to be a confessional writer.