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Writing Ourselves Whole: Using the Power of Your Own Creativity to Recover and Heal from Sexual Trauma
"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 :
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 .
#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 :
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 .
304 pages, Paperback
Published August 22, 2017
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March 19, 2025
First part of the book is great. It has some really helpful tips and insights and got me journaling again. But then it gets a bit repetitive and I had a hard time slogging through the rest of it. A helpful tool for writers either way.
June 29, 2018
Will return to this again and again for my writing practice, it's finally, finally, coming back. I missed it. Thank you, Jen Cross, for speaking to me and understanding me in way that others don't. What it means to fall in love with writing again even when you've been hurt and silenced, but we keep trying anyway.
July 19, 2018
This book and Jen Cross are a gift.
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