Writing Ourselves Whole: Using the Power of Your Own Creativity to Recover and Heal from Sexual Trauma (Help for Rape Victims, Trauma and Recovery, Abuse Self-Help)

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Review "Writing Ourselves Whole is a raw, powerful, necessary, wise and practiced guidebook to the revolutionary practice of finding the words, language and voice to transform suffering. It is chock full of insights, exercises,experience and the kind of fierce loveand teaching that transforms pain into power.Jen Cross is a brave and brilliant transmitter of the deepest healing and healing practices. To anyone who has experienced abuse,violation and trauma, this book is a way out of the darkness."- Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues"Writing Ourselves Whole is rich, intelligent, passionate, intimate, honest and encouraging. Jen Cross draws from her personal experience, her many years of facilitating writing groups with survivors of sexual abuse, and the wisdom of a variety of teachers and writers, to provide guidance for writing?and for life?that?s both sensible and inspiring. This book is a treasure trove!" -Ellen Bass, author of The Courage to Heal"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 About the Author Jen Cross is a writer, performer, and writing workshop facilitator based in Oakland, CA. Her organization, Writing Ourselves Whole, founded in 2003, focuses primarily on sexuality writing workshops and writing with survivors of sexual trauma. Jen's writing appears in more than thirty anthologies and periodicals, including The Healing Art of Writing, Nobody Passes, Visible: A Femmethology, Best Sex Writing 2008; she is also the co-editor of Sex Still Spoken Here (with Dr. Carol Queen and Amy Butcher). Jen is currently an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University.