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EMBODIED MEMOIR WRITING

Memoir craft, embodiment, and community for every stage of the process.

Through series, writing circles, retreats, and the video collection, EMW offers supportive spaces to begin, deepen, generate, and shape your stories.

A private community for EMW writers

Participation in any EMW program includes access to the private Embodied Memoir All Writers Community — a closed online space for past and present participants to stay connected, share writing, receive support, and continue the work beyond class.

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Healing Our Way Home

You don't have to be a writer to have a story worth telling. You just have to be human. Whether you've never written a word or you're almost done with your book, your stories are ready to find the page.

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Weekly Writing Circles

For past Healing Our Way Home participants who want ongoing writing, feedback, and accountability.

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Write the Darn Thing!

For memoir writers with 100+ pages who are ready to shape their material into a cohesive book.

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Martha's Vineyard Memoir Writing Retreat

Writing Retreats

For writers seeking focused time, spaciousness, and community to reconnect with their memoir work.

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Program details:

  • Length: 6 weeks

  • Group size: Limited to 12 participants

  • Offered: Three times per year

  • Investment: $555

  • Next series: Begins October 6, 2026

  • Class time: Tuesdays, 12–2:30pm EST

Offered three times per year. Partial scholarships are considered by request.

Healing Our Way Home

For aspiring writers, seasoned writers, and anyone curious about memoir who wants a supportive, healing-centered space to explore and shape their life stories.

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In this six-week Embodied Memoir Writing series, we co-create a sacred, courageous, and supported approach to writing our stories. Together, we explore memoir craft alongside healing embodiment practices, write to optional prompts, share our stories, and offer compassionate peer feedback. Each class builds on the next as we unpack memory, ignite creativity, and begin shaping life experiences into beautiful scenes on the page.

What we do together:

  • Explore memoir craft in an intimate online circle

  • Begin each session with healing embodiment practices

  • Write from optional prompts or your own material

  • Share stories in a compassionate, supportive space

  • Give and receive useful peer feedback

  • Build confidence in your voice, memories, and writing process

What’s included:

  • Six live online classes

  • Weekly PDF craft handouts

  • Class recordings

  • A private online group forum

  • Connection with current and past EMW participants

  • Access to the Embodied Memoir All Writers Community

Program details:

  • Length: 8-week cycles

  • Group size: Limited to 12 participants

  • Investment: $555

  • Next circle: Begins June 18, 2026

  • Class time: Thursdays, 5:30–8pm EST

Sherry offers five Weekly Writing Circle cycles per year. Availability is based on space and request. Partial scholarships are considered by request.

Weekly Writing Circles

For past Healing Our Way Home participants who want ongoing writing, feedback, accountability, and community.

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Continue your memoir writing practice in a supportive weekly container. Each circle offers space to generate new writing, share your work, receive compassionate developmental and editorial feedback, and keep shaping your stories in community.

What we do together:

  • Begin each circle with a short embodiment practice

  • Read and share story work with the group

  • Give and receive compassionate, useful feedback

  • Write from optional weekly prompts or your own material

  • Explore memoir craft through the feedback process

  • Shape separate writing pieces into something more connected

  • Begin planting the seeds for a larger memoir project

What’s included:

  • Eight weeks of live online writing circles

  • A supportive group of writers already rooted in the EMW community

  • Optional weekly writing prompts from Sherry

  • Developmental and editorial feedback from the group

  • Access to the Private Online WWC Group Forum

  • Class recordings posted in the forum

  • Ongoing connection through the Embodied Memoir All Writers Community

Program details:

  • Length: 5 months

  • Sessions: 13 sessions total

  • Group size: Limited to 8 participants

  • Investment: $1,333

  • Next cohort: Begins September 11, 2026

  • Meeting time: Fridays, 12–2:30pm EST

  • Schedule: Meets 3 weeks per month

Sherry offers one Write the Darn Thing! cohort per year. Partial scholarships are considered by request.

Write the Darn Thing!

For memoir writers with 100+ pages who are ready to shape their material into a cohesive book.

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This five-month, peer-supported developmental series is for writers who are ready to move from pages into a book. Together, you’ll take inventory of your existing memoir material, discover what’s missing, and begin architecting the structure, arc, themes, and narrative journey of your memoir. Sherry’s guidance centers on strengthening your editorial mindset, creating clear action steps, and preparing your work for next-stage opportunities like book proposals, publishers, and literary agents.

What we do together:

  • Take inventory of your existing memoir material

  • Harness, edit, and shape the pages you already have

  • Discover missing connective tissue and material

  • Clarify your memoir’s structure, arc, themes, and message

  • Explore character development, through-lines, and narrative journey

  • Create a roadmap for bringing your book into being

  • Present your process, ask questions, and receive feedback

  • Practice your book proposal pitch with the group

What’s included:

  • Thirteen sessions over five months

  • A brave, peer-supported communal space

  • Dedicated stewardship for your memoir project

  • Weekly developmental projects to keep you on task

  • Developmental feedback and next-step mapping

  • Support preparing a book proposal for submission

  • PDF handouts for each session

  • Meeting recordings

  • Access to the Private Online WTDT! Forum

  • Invitation to the Embodied Memoir All Writers Community

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