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Write to Restore: A Step-By-Step Creative Writing Journal for Survivors of Sexual Trauma A companion to the bestselling Writing Ourselves Whole (Mango Media).
Available at amazon, barnes and noble, and indiebound.

Writing Ourselves Whole: Using the power of your own creativity to recover and heal from sexual trauma (Mango Media).
Also available at amazon, barnes and noble, and indiebound.

My novella Night Hands, published by The Massachusetts Review's Working Titles press. Also available at amazon, kobo, and weightless books.
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Selected readings:

Audio: Jen in conversation with Amy Butcher, talking about writing as a practice for transforming trauma, on the amazing Pleasure Lab podcast (a Body Trust project), Season 2, #7, 11/12/17.

Video: Jen reading from Writing Ourselves Whole at VelRo at SFSU on Oct. 11, 2017

Our mission and vision

The mission: We offer safe, confidential writing groups to a broad cross-section of the community, and in particular to those who are living in the aftermath of intimate violences. We engage a non-clinical, transformative and communal approach for those living with and in the aftermath of trauma, and recognize that resurrecting our own language and stories is a necessary part of re-ordering ourselves after trauma.
The vision: Writing Ourselves Whole seeks to change the world through writing. We exist in the service of transforming struggle into art, turning isolation toward community, and creating spaces in which individuals may come to recognize the artist/writer within.
Our Fiscal Sponsor

Writing Ourselves Whole is a fiscally-sponsored project of the Intersection Incubator
Learn more about Writing Ourselves Whole

Begin here to learn more about our work:

What is Writing Ourselves Whole?

What do you mean when you say 'transformative writing practice'?

How can writing practice help trauma survivors?

What we talk about when we talk about resilience

The radical act of putting our oxygen mask on first
What They’re Saying
I love the voices of every writer. Truly, I have been deeply fed by drinking in what others write. (I have thoroughly enjoyed writing too). I love this format and the safety created by your presence, heart, group structure, and everyone participating. ~Anonymous (Write Whole)