Jennifer Storm is an award winning victim’s rights expert, advocate and best-selling author. When stories break on addiction, victimization and trauma, she is often the media's first call.
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Jennifer Storm’s story teaches important lessons about the role of trauma in addiction and illuminates a new pathway to recovery. Directed by Sylvia Caminer, the Blackout Girl documentary is currently in production. Learn more, watch the trailer and see how you can support the film!
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No matter where you have let life take you, no matter how dark it has gotten, your life and your spirit are worth fighting for. Here are some good resources to help on your road to recovery or for a loved one who is struggling.
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Jennifer is currently booking dates for 2020! With two books coming out this year, she will be taking her story and books on the road!
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Picking Up the Pieces Without Picking Up
Just when you thought recovery couldn’t get any harder, life on life’s terms happens, and sometimes that means someone perpetrating violence on you or your home…
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Leave the Light On
In the follow-up to Blackout Girl, her memoir of alcohol addiction, author Storm continues her compelling journey to fulfillment as a functional, substance-free human being…
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Blackout Girl
A riveting memoir of what happens to a teenage girl whose life is awash in alcohol, drugs, and the trauma of rape. Discover the tender gritty, self-told survival story of a teenage addict. Here is a cant-tear-yourself-away look at what can happen to the one-in-five teenagers who have a drinking problem…
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Two New Book Releases Coming in 2020
A 2nd Edition of Blackout Girl will be published by Hazelden in summer of 2020 loaded with new content, chapters, a discussion guide and more. Jennifer’s 5th book will be released in fall of 2020, tentatively titled Awakening Blackout Girl. More details to follow. Jennifer will be on tour for fall of 2020…
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Jennifer Storm’s TEDx Talk on Resiliency & Recovery
Jennifer Storm, author of Blackout Girl, started out life as a happy gregarious child, until she was the victim of a violent sexual assault. She numbed the pain with alcohol, eventually leading her to become a crack addict by the age of 17 because she didn’t have the tools to handle the trauma she had endured…
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