Writing Ourselves Whole
Healing Victims of Sexual Assault Through Transformative Journaling
"This is the most essential book on writing practice I know ... Every writing teacher, writing coach, writing workshop or group leader and every person with a history of any kind of trauma needs this book.” —Pat Schneider, author of How the Light Gets In and founder of the Amherst Writers & Artists method
#1 Best Seller in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Study Aids
One in six women is the victim of sexual assault. Using her own hard-won wisdom, author Jen Cross shows how to heal through journaling and personal writing
Rape victims and victims of other sexual abuse. Writing Ourselves Whole is a collection of essays and creative writing encouragements for sexual trauma survivors who want to risk writing a different story. Each short chapter offers encouragement, experience, and exercises.
A book that could change your life. When you can find language for the stories that are locked inside, you can change your life. Talk therapy can only go so far for the millions of Americans struggling in the aftermath of sexual abuse and sexual assault. Sexual assault survivors can heal themselves. Sexual trauma survivor communities (and their allies) have the capacity to hold and hear one another's stories–we do not have to relegate ourselves solely to the individual isolation of the therapist's office.
What You'll Learn Inside Writing Ourselves Whole:
- How to reconnect with your creative instinct through freewriting
- How freewriting can help you reclaim the parts of yourself and your history
- How "restorying" the old myths about sexual trauma survivors can set you free
If you have read books such as The Body Keeps the Score, The Artist's Way, Writing Down the Bones, or Writing as a Way of Healing, you will want to read Writing Ourselves Whole. Also try Jen Cross’s self-care journal, Write to Restore.
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Book details
- Author
- Jen Cross, Carol Queen
- Imprint
- TMA Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 304
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Self-Help › Abuse
Language Arts & Disciplines › Writing
Mind, Body, Spirit › Healing
Social Science › Feminism & Feminist Theory - Topics
- sexual trauma healing · journaling · writing practice · sexual abuse recovery · trauma and the body · feminist healing · personal writing · complex PTSD
- ISBN-13
- 9781633536197
About the author
JEN CROSS is the author of Writing Ourselves Whole: Using the Power of Your Own Creativity to Recover and Heal from Sexual Trauma, with fiction and creative nonfiction appearing in over 50 anthologies and periodicals, including Nobody Passes, Sinister Wisdom, Matador Review, 14 Hills, and Best Sex Writing 2008. She has a novella, Night Hands, under contract with The Massachusetts Review.
Cross has been awarded residencies at Hedgebrook and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
When she’s not writing, Cross works as a bookseller and writing instructor at The Book Passage.