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)

One in six women is the victims of sexual assault; using her own hard-won wisdom, author Jen Cross shows how to heal through journaling and personal writing.

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.

Summary

One in six women is the victims of sexual assault; using her own hard-won wisdom, author Jen Cross shows how to heal through journaling and personal writing.

Product details

• Authors: Jen Cross, Jennifer Cross
• Assisted by: Pat Schneider (Foreword), Schneider Pat (Foreword), Carol Queen (Afterword), Queen Carol (Afterword)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2017
• EAN: 9781633536197
• ISBN: 978-1-63353-619-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
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