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By Jené Jackson January 2, 2019January 2, 2019 book news/Jené

LIWI and the Church of Wild

It’s been an INTENSE year here in Jene’-land. Over the last two years, via hard as hell work in therapy for the first time in my life, I’ve finally begun to work through early trauma, my mother’s death, and gotten at the root cause of lifelong depression, panic, and anxiety.

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By Jené Jackson January 2, 2019 Blog/book news/process/Video

Ta-Dah! The Beginning of The Church of Wild: I Read to You

By Jené Jackson November 5, 2016December 22, 2018 book news/events

Nine Years in the Making – The Oat Project memoir

And so it is here. The Oat Project is done, ready, being read by presale and (from way back) full subscribers. Are you ready? I don’t feel ready. But I’m doing it anyway. Right now, this minute, I’m simultaneously wanting to RAWR, flee to the beach and hide my head

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By Jené Jackson August 4, 2016August 4, 2016 book news/Jené

THE Announcement – My Mom’s View

ANNOUNCEMENT (Please read, then watch the video): Nine years ago, I started a project that became transformational then seminal: Over the summer of 2007, at 37 years old, I finally came of age via doing 22 things I’d never done, like getting drunk, going dancing, getting a tattoo, and smoking

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By Jené Jackson April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 book news

A Pre-Announcement Announcement

Oh, dear ones. You know how we’re all trained by media for the PRE-announcement announcement? Well, here’s one: It has been one. long. haul. holy cow. Almost exactly nine years ago, I set off on an adventure I thought would be silly and worthy of laughter. In one summer, I

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By Jené Jackson December 9, 2014December 9, 2014 book news/excerpts/process

The Worst Victoria Secret’s Experience Ever: An Excerpt from The Oat Project

Note: That photo up there was taken post-tattoo, post-book, long after the moment below happened. In the following, I was just trying to do and finish the project, feeling like I sucked at everything, trying to do what I said I would do, all amidst the core of being a mother.

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By Jené Jackson October 4, 2014October 4, 2014 book news/events/Jené

Life: 0 to 60 in Fourteen Seconds Flat

You know how Life can go from 0 to 60 in fourteen seconds flat? I’m clocking in at 74 with an eye on 90. Before I tell you why, thank you, so very much, for walking through this life with me, for supporting my efforts as writer/photographer/singer/speaker/etc=Artist. I’m still going!

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By Jené Jackson May 23, 2014August 26, 2014 book news/process

Forest Fires, Drama Queens, and Authenticity

This is an excerpt from The Oat Project, from the rock concert chapter. It may or may not make the final version (coming this summer!!!). Enjoy…and now, back to it. It’s like World Wide Wrestling. What is that fake-fighting impulse? Do we all have it in one form or another?

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By Jené Jackson May 9, 2014 book news/events/Jené

A Story of My Mother’s Last Gifts, at The Story Project – TONIGHT

A little over two years ago, I told a story from the summer I wrote The Oat Project for a program here in Colorado Springs called The Story Project. Like The Moth Radio Hour out of New York City, it’s live, local storytelling without a script. Tonight, on this Mother’s

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By Jené Jackson April 4, 2014April 4, 2014 blurting/book news/Jené/process

Divergent? Or Derailed?

What do you do when you fall short of a goal? How do you Define it? Is it a Divergence? Or a Derailing? Are you more motivated with humongous, “unrealistic” goals? Or small steps? I am slowly figuring out how I work best. I keep thinking that making big goals

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All Those Beginnings

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The Church of Wild is really, actually, finally here!

On the Occasion of Getting the Results of a Biopsy

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LIWI and the Church of Wild

Ta-Dah! The Beginning of The Church of Wild: I Read to You