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Personal essay and memoir and the Choices You're Making

Examine the choices shaping your life through timeless wisdom. Discover powerful reflection prompts to deepen your personal essay and transform how you liv

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: From Confusion to ClarityThe Examined Personal essay and memoirLiving with Personal essay and memoirPersonal essay and memoir: A Deeper LookWhy Personal essay and memoir Matters
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.