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Lynn Henriksen Keeping Spirits Alive One Memoir at a Time

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Lynn Henriksen
Lynn Henriksen
Tiburon, California
Member since: Jan, 2009
Last login: 11/20/2009
Last update : 10/22/2009
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photo credit: Mark Bennington Headshots

Birthday12/16/1945
NicknameThe Story Woman
EthnicityWhite/Caucasian
NationalityUnited States

About Me

  •   Lynn Henriksen "Keeping Spirits Alive One Memoir at a Time." She has helped hundreds capture in brief memoirs the memories and feelings they never thought they could record. Her “how to” book, Give the Gift of Story, TellTale Souls’ Essential Guide to Tap Memory and Write Memoir in Five Acts is easy-to-follow and filled with tips, examples, exercises, and sage advice for memoirists and storytellers alike. (Click to purchase “How To” Guidebook)

    Lynn, aka The Story Woman™, holds Story Salons and gives workshops, events, and classes to Tap Memory & Write Memoir: Give the Gift of Story. She is also the author of the book, TellTale Souls…Keeping Spirits Alive One Memoir at a Time and the co-editor of the anthology, Wisdom Has a Voice: Daughters Remember Mothers. These two books are currently in the hands of her agent, awaiting a publication.

    Lynn is a member of California Writers Club and the President of the San Francisco Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association, an organization with ten chapters and over 800 members. An alumna of Dominican University and a member of the Psi Chi Chapter of the National Honor Society in Psychology, Lynn’s career has been rich and varied as an entrepreneur, founder of a non-profit institute, neurofeedback therapist, instructor, and project manager for the renovation of historic hotel properties.

    She’s the mother of a son and two daughters, the proud grandmother of two “adorables,” and lives with her husband in Marin County overlooking San Francisco Bay.

     

Relationship Status

  • She and her husband, David, live in Marin County.

Family

  • She is the mother of a son and two daughters and the proud grandmother of two “adorables.”

Interests & Hobbies

  • Enjoying my family & friends

    Reading

    Writing

    Baking sourdough bread

    Knitting

    Flying

WORK

  • Lynn writes nonfiction,inspires and teaches people to write bio-vignettes to honor someone other than themselves, and she collects these stories. Her career has been rich and varied as an entrepreneur, founder of a non-profit institute, neuro-feedback therapist, instructor, mortgage broker, and project manager for the renovation of historic hotel properties. She continues to give back to the community as a weekly volunteer counselor for the Suicide Prevention Hotline.