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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- Awakening Blackout Girl: A Survivor’s Guide for Healing from Addiction and Sexual Trauma
- Blackout Girl:Tracing My Scars from Addiction and Sexual Assault; Second Edition
- Picking Up the Pieces Without Picking Up
Awakening Blackout Girl: A Survivor’s Guide for Healing from Addiction and Sexual Trauma
In this honest and practical guide, rape survivor and victim advocate Jennifer Storm shares the information, tools, and resources she has gained from more than twenty years of personal and professional experience to help fellow survivors recover from co-occurring sexual trauma and substance use. In recent years, the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have exposed the truth that many already knew: sexual violence…
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Blackout Girl:Tracing My Scars from Addiction and Sexual Assault; Second Edition
In this brutally honest and compelling memoir, Jennifer Storm revisits the trauma of her childhood rape and ensuing addiction and how she channeled her pain into a healing life of advocacy. Sexual assault, addiction, and other traumatic experiences can leave both physical and emotional scars. For Jennifer Storm, these scars serve as a reminder–both of the darkness and suffering she once experienced…
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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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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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