This is the third in a series about how writing and crafting memoir can help us in our journey towards healing. I am not interested so much in the classic idea of writing as catharsis, but more that by crafting a memoir and writing towards publication we might find ourselves able to transcend difficult emotion and put it to rest. This premise is the foundation of a book I am currently writing called INTO BEING: the radical craft of memoir and its power to transform, which will be published by Manchester University Press in 2025.