Some people say her name equals hope, others say it is luck with an "a" and still others describe her as someone they feel like they know. "She's just like me," fans write in the countless emails that come each week. In New Haven, Connecticut, at the center for Post Traumatic Stress, Jennifer is called a healer with the authentic voice of the survivor. Her work is currently being used at this center, to help others heal from childhood and adult trauma. Jennifer describes herself as the wounded healer, knowing just about every possible human difficulty from direct experience. Her mother, father and brother all died of separate causes, her mother of a long complex illness, her father from a heart attack and her brother from suicide. She has been adopted twice, homeless, abandoned, raped, beaten and relocated in and out of 27 different homes and several different families, all by the time she was eighteen years old. Just before becoming a mother, in 1997, Jennifer stopped the forward motion of her life and devoted herself to a personal journey of healing and self awareness. Her mantra has been: "as within, so without." As part of this journey, she penned and published three memoirs, Blackbird, Still Waters and Show Me the Way. Her first memoir, so powerful in its ability to capture to essence of a child witnessing the crumbling of her world, became a New York Times and international bestseller, translated into 22 different languages and sold in 29 countries. Jennifer is currently working on her fourth memoir on the decision to leave her traditional life and walk a more directed spiritual path. The book is in the process of revision and sale. For more information on estimated publication dates, contact her directly. Also coming are two additional books, Jennifer's first novel, Let it Be, which poses the question, "who would the Virgin Mary be if she were among us now?" and Writing Life, a tool for writers seeking to pen their own memoirs. Finally, Jennifer teaches others how to heal with writing, weaving a Transformational Writing Practice that engages students in workshops and in one on one sessions. She is also a national speaker, talking with depth and great humor on a wide variety of topics, including: adoption and foster care, family loss, abuse and trauma, spiritual practice, hope, healing, happiness and how to live in these complex world of the 21st century.