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Contents

foreword

writing ourselves whole

introduction

how to restory

initial preparation

suturing the rupture: what writing about trauma can do

writing that changes its writer

the page has room for my incomprehensibility

we are not trauma but we know the words for it

finding your own routine

what they take

put on your own oxygen mask first: writing as radical self-care

getting our whole mouth back

story

our stories are our world

what’s outside the broken story?

permitting permeability: rewriting (our) desire

the lexicon of our longing

writing the difficult stories

writing the delicious stories

story and intimacy

the words to become—and unbecome

voice

who asks you to tell your story?

disembodied story

articulate fear: writing what scares us

when we write desire we re-enter our skin: restorying our erotic selves

witness

what writing can do for survivors

being and bearing witness

sharing our healing

how to hold kindness

competitiveness and jealousy

safety and survivors writing

diy wit(h)ness: ideas for gathering your own group

self-care

this is a ceremony

what writing can’t do

writing practice for humans

trust the process

conclusions

begin again

conclusion: something in you is opening

appendices

appendix a: sample syllabus for 8-week survivors writing group

appendix b: exercises to spark more writing

afterword

writing our way out of the silences

notes

bibliography

acknowledgments

about Jen Cross