Jessica Jocelyn

To the person reading this, sometimes we get caught in the crossfire of a storm inside someone that we didn’t start and become collateral damage. Sometimes we blame ourselves. There’s guilt, there’s shame. We lie to our families, we lie to ourselves. Until the storm is so great, that it just simply cannot be hidden any longer. I’m here to say I see you. I hear you. You’re not alone. And I promise, you will get through it. We can’t forget that even though we love an addict, we must also love ourselves. Follow along in my personal story of loving an addict told through poetry.

"the price I paid to existwas a mother who couldn't love me.my karma was a daughtermade from stars."Stars At Last compassionately and candidly carries each reader's heart through a healing journey of breaking generational trauma while traversing the tumultuous waters of the mother wound.With deeply vulnerable and visceral lines, Jessica Jocelyn reclaims her personal power the closer she gets to freeing herself from a maternal trauma bond. She learns to not only be a loving mother towards herself, but she also further rewrites her lineage's history by becoming the parent her mother could never be to her own daughter.Ultimately, this poignant poetry book is for the cycle-breakers; the ones who had to mother themselves along the path to self-empowerment and transformation.trigger warnings include references abuseself harmdomestic violence

From the best selling author who brought you Chasing Wildfires and Finding Daisies, Jessica Jocelyn takes you by the hand in Girl (Remastered) and leads you through poems about toxic romantic relationships, childhood trauma, motherhood, and religious trauma all while being an undiagnosed autistic woman. This book is for the people who struggled to find their place in a world that was never made for them and a safe place to be able to sit and process all the grief and anger that comes with it. Find healing and validation in these pages accompanied by beautiful illustrations by Janelle Parraz.trigger warnings woundmother woundchildhood abusereligious traumaself harm