your tenderness, your insistent honesty, the authenticity of the child and adult narrator's voices, your exquisite prose, your ferocious love for your childhood self, the light you shine in dark places ... what gifts these things are. What a gift you are.
Wow. The importance of this being out in the world, and with your previous essay being back out for submission, will no doubt be compounded through those who read it, those who speak up, those who LISTEN, those who might act when they otherwise would not have. there's so much power in your sharing of these layered and complicated experiences.
Oh, Jeannine, this is mind-blowingly powerful. I am so glad you wrote it, for you, for everyone who needs to understand the layers of child sexual abuse and the way it arrows forward and back at the same time. Love to you and also awe that you have done the work to understand the trauma and use such beautiful words to tell this story.
Jeannine, I am so glad I found you. You are a gift to the writing community and a gift to survivors. You lit expansive fires and soften the sharpest edges. Words are not enough to express my gratitude.
This is inspiring thank you. I’m working on a podcast episode about just this thing... in my family of origin. And your writing has inspired me to go back in and continue doing the work despite my unavoidable and occasional doubts that no one will listen and nothing will change.
The repetition of this question - is it your fault - worked so brilliantly. Fact-checked by family member experiences range from IRS audit to arrested and guilty until proven innocent. The narrator's voice of experience pulls me in to listen deeply, like a whisper, a prayer.
your tenderness, your insistent honesty, the authenticity of the child and adult narrator's voices, your exquisite prose, your ferocious love for your childhood self, the light you shine in dark places ... what gifts these things are. What a gift you are.
You give me courage to write the hardest things. TY
Wow. The importance of this being out in the world, and with your previous essay being back out for submission, will no doubt be compounded through those who read it, those who speak up, those who LISTEN, those who might act when they otherwise would not have. there's so much power in your sharing of these layered and complicated experiences.
Reading your work gives me so many things - hope, inspiration, resolve, ferocity, determination, affirmation to name a few. So grateful I found you.
Oh, Jeannine, this is mind-blowingly powerful. I am so glad you wrote it, for you, for everyone who needs to understand the layers of child sexual abuse and the way it arrows forward and back at the same time. Love to you and also awe that you have done the work to understand the trauma and use such beautiful words to tell this story.
Jeannine, I am so glad I found you. You are a gift to the writing community and a gift to survivors. You lit expansive fires and soften the sharpest edges. Words are not enough to express my gratitude.
This is inspiring thank you. I’m working on a podcast episode about just this thing... in my family of origin. And your writing has inspired me to go back in and continue doing the work despite my unavoidable and occasional doubts that no one will listen and nothing will change.
The repetition of this question - is it your fault - worked so brilliantly. Fact-checked by family member experiences range from IRS audit to arrested and guilty until proven innocent. The narrator's voice of experience pulls me in to listen deeply, like a whisper, a prayer.