Re-Storying and Restoring: Writing through Trauma; Amy Butcher Interviews Jen Cross, Pleasure Lab Podcast Season 2 Episode 7

Amy talks with writer, performer, and educator Jen Cross about her new book and how writing is an embodied practice available to all of us, not just to heal trauma but also to celebrate our passions.

• Find out more about Jen here: http://writingourselveswhole.org
• Jen's recently published book is Writing Ourselves Whole: Using the Power of Your Own Creativity to Recover and Heal from Sexual Trauma
• If you are in San Francisco, come to the book's launch party on December 5, 2017 in San Francisco (more info here)

Other resources mentioned:

• Peter Levine, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
  
• Pat Califia,
• Macho Sluts and other booksDorothy Alison,
• Bastard Out of Carolina and other booksPat Schneider,
• Amherst Writers & Artists methodClarissa Pinkola Estés,
• Women Who Run with the WolvesLaura van Dernoot Lipsky, The Trauma Stewardship Institute

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