Recognize Our Power is designed to provide a platform for sexual assault survivors to come together for strength, community, and to inspire each other. My goal is to give survivors a place to listen to women who have owned their own stories and been able to use writing as a part of their healing journey.
Recognize Our Power
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Recognize Our Power is designed to provide a platform for sexual assault survivors to come together for strength, community, and to inspire each other. My goal is to give survivors a place to listen to women who have owned their own stories and been able to use writing as a part of their healing journey.
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July 24, 2023
Jeannine Oulette - Healing Power of Creative Non-Fiction
<h2>About Jeannine Ouellette:</h2><p>Her memoir, The Part That Burns, shatters the silence on childhood sexual abuse and its long aftermath while celebrating the author's ultimate reclamation of her own humanity in all its wildness. <a href="https://www.splitlippress.com/the-part-that-burns" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Part That Burns</a> was a 2021 Kirkus Best 100 Indie Book and a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award. In women's literature she’s received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. Oullette's essays and fiction appear widely in literary journals including Los Angeles Review of Books, Narrative, Master's Review, North American Review, and more, as well as in her popular Writing in the Dark newsletter. She teaches writing at the University of Minnesota and through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, Catapult and Elephant Rock, a creative writing program, she founded in 2012. She's working on her first novel. </p><p>Find her online at <a href="jeannineoullette.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">jeannineoullette.com</a>.</p><h2>Episode 10:</h2><p>During this episode, we talked about Jeannine’s growing up years and the craft perspective of writing her memoir <a href="https://www.splitlippress.com/the-part-that-burns" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Part That Burns</a>. Her material weaves in Jimmy Carter’s inauguration, the botany of the tumbleweed, and jackalopes to serve as metaphor. We discussed her healing including therapy which was helpful and how going to support groups for child sexual abuse groups when her trauma re-surfaced was not what she needed at that time. She worked with Dorothy Allison at <a href="https://tinhouse.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tin House</a> Summer Writing Workshop and realized she had a book on her hands. We talked about James Pennebaker’s social psychology work using dialogue, turning scene material over and examining it from a variety of different directions. She reviewed how making something beautiful out of bad things alters you. We talked about how she found an indie press publisher for The Part That Burns using less is more techniques when writing about childhood sexual abuse and how traditional publishers shied away from her writing because of the harm done to a child. We discussed how her ten-year career as a Waldorf teacher influenced her new novel that she is currently at work on. She also touched on how memory is fallible when writing memoir. We revealed how writing material can be tough on our bodies and relationships can sometimes be fractured as a result.</p><h2>Topics discussed:</h2><p>Child Sexual abuse</p><p>Using literary devices in writing</p><p>Tin House Literary Workshop</p><p>Yoga</p><p>Meditation</p><p>Low Residency MFA program</p><p>Links:</p><p>The Part That Burns - <a href="https://www.splitlippress.com/the-part-that-burns" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.splitlippress.com/the-part-that-burns</a></p><p>The Courage to Heal - <a href="https://www.ellenbass.com/books/the-courage-to-heal/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ellenbass.com/books/the-courage-to-heal/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/-9780452297753/2-6?gclid=Cj0KCQjwk96lBhDHARIsAEKO4xbKp6ta9d6fZ26kjEGP6GYvgyXZcZi2SA-ircC3SuOdV-1yyRDg2F0aAnv1EALw_wcB" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bastard Out of Carolina</a> - </p><p>Tin House- <a href="https://tinhouse.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tinhouse.com</a></p><p>James Pennebaker - <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/psychology/faculty/pennebak" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/psychology/faculty/pennebak</a></p><p>Connect with Jeannine:</p><p>Website: <a href="https://www.jeannineouellette.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.jeannineouellette.com</a></p><p>Twitter: @_elephantrock</p><p>Instagram:...
July 17, 2023
Laura Davis - From Trauma to Triumph: The Transformative Power of Memoir Writing
<p>Laura Davis is the author of <a href="https://lauradavis.net/the-burning-light-of-two-stars/#order" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Burning Light of Two Stars</a>, winner of the Book Life Prize for Best Memoir of 2021, The Courage to Heal, and four other groundbreaking books. In addition to writing books that inspire, the work of Laura&#39;s heart is to teach. For more than 20 years, she's helped people find their voices, tell their stories, and hone their craft. Laura has been published in Publishers Weekly, Writers Digest, Crime Breeds, Brevity, and the New York Times, featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, and has been an engaging guest on Queerty, Right Minded, The Only One in the Room, and dozens of other podcasts.</p><p>Laura and I chatted about her experience growing up Jewish in New Jersey in the 60’s and 70’s and how her progressive background allowed her creativity to flourish. We talked about how Laura had a twin sister who passed away at birth and how the trauma of not being touched as a baby, isolated away in a bassinet for six weeks, formed who she is as a person. Laura is an incest survivor who blocked out memories of abuse until she was twenty-seven years old. We discussed her time growing up with a mother who expected the world (and Laura!) to revolve around her.</p><p>Laura spent ten years working on a memoir about her relationship with her mother who she was estranged from for a long time. Today Laura has recovered so much from her trauma that she feels she doesn’t identify as strongly as a survivor. She works from a place of grounding and healing. We reviewed how taking the time to write a memoir about reuniting with her mother after decades of living on opposite coasts was a part of her healing journey.</p><p>Topics touched on:</p><p>Reconciliation</p><p>Incest</p><p>Writing through trauma</p><p>Buy Laura’s book, The Burning Light of Two Stars: <a href="https://lauradavis.net/the-burning-light-of-two-stars/#order" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lauradavis.net/the-burning-light-of-two-stars/#order</a></p><p>Connect with Laura</p><p><a href="https://lauradavis.net" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lauradavis.net</a></p><p>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thewritersjourney" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/thewritersjourney</a></p><p>Instagram: @laurasaridavis</p><p>Twitter: laurasaridavis</p>
July 10, 2023
Katherine Standefer - Nature’s Healing Touch: How it Helps Overcome Assault Trauma
<p>Katherine Standefer, author of <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/katherine-e-standefer/lightning-flowers/9780316450355/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lightning Flowers</a>, My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life and Skin Hunger: A Sexual Reckoning. Standefer has published work in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The High Country News, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, New England Review, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Colorado Review, Cutbank, and many other literary journals, as well as the anthologies Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays (ed. Stephanie G’Schwind) and How We Speak to One Another: An Essay Daily Reader (ed. Ander Monson and Craig Reinbold).</p><p><a href="http://www.katherinestandefer.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.katherinestandefer.com</a></p><p>We discussed Katherine’s growing up years in a traditional “white bread” community and abstinence culture upbringing heart arrhythmia, healthcare discrimination and move from Wyoming to Colorado after she discovered her condition to seek care. We talked about her switch from poetry to non-fiction and trauma from her heart condition as well as the various ways she has healed. Katherine overcame a sexual assault at twenty-two and we spoke about how Wyoming, writing through her “non-fiction impulse,” and how going to other countries to see where the parts of her cardiac difibulator came from helped her heal her medical trauma . We chatted about the follow-up book she is currently working on where she explores her sex assault, purity culture and her employment at an abortion healthcare center. Katherine is a trauma writing doula who helps people write through their trauma in an embodied way.</p><p>Topics Discussed</p><p>Medical trauma</p><p>Affordable care act</p><p>New Mexico</p><p>Wyoming</p><p>Medical debt</p><p>Abortion care</p><p>Embodied trauma recovery </p><p>Somatic healing</p><p>Writing through trauma</p><p>Fight or flight response</p><p>Acupunture</p><p>Qui Gong</p><p>EMDR</p><p>Links </p><p>Katherine socials</p><p>Twitter @girlmakesfire</p><p>Instagram @girlmakesfire</p><p>Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KatherineEStandefer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/KatherineEStandefer</a></p><p>Lightning Flowers:</p><p><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/katherine-e-standefer/lightning-flowers/9780316450355/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/katherine-e-standefer/lightning-flowers/9780316450355/</a></p><p>Arizona Trauma Institute</p><p><a href="https://aztrauma.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://aztrauma.org</a></p>
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