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Practice

The Personal essay and memoir Question You're Avoiding

Uncover the question you've been avoiding about your life. Use ancient wisdom to gain clarity on what truly matters in your personal essay and memoir.

Muraguide
What you’ll practice

This is a reflective practice guided by Mura. It gives you one honest question to sit with — the kind that moves you from thinking about an idea to working with it.

The reflection itself unfolds in conversation with Mura, where it adapts to your situation — so you practice it together rather than reading it off the page.

Practice this with Mura
Begin the reflection in a coaching conversation, where it meets what you’re actually working through.
Understand first
Interior Monologue and Psychological DepthObservation Without Judgment: The Witnessing EyeThe Essay as Meditation on Beauty and MortalityThe Art of Narrative DigressionThe Fragment as Complete Form
Go deeper
Personal essay and memoir in PracticePersonal essay and memoir: Start HerePersonal essay and memoirPersonal essay and memoir: Questions Worth AskingThe Examined Personal essay and memoir
Peri
New to this practice?

Peri can explain what this practice is for, help you decide whether it fits what you’re working through, and point you to the right place to begin.

Ready to practice this?

Begin the reflection with your coach, or tell Peri what you’re working through.