Found your group today and would like to join the conversations. I too am writing a memoir, "Victory Is My Name," about unlearning the untruths we were taught as children "for our own good" that keep us from becoming who we really are and can hold us hostage for life, unless we find our own way to the truth. I want the book to have the qualities of a good novel –Stories within the story, places that have personal history, the family secret, and how it affected all of us even though we never knew. The book shares some new truths I learned in living it, and even more surprisingly, in writing it. The biggest one being, "You ARE good enough."
I would love to hear what other writers like myself are experiencing in the pursuit of our chosen way of expressing our truths. Also interested in learning more about self-publishing. From first-look, it seems hardest in the follow-through and distribution once it's done. My book is still in progress, so I'm considering options.