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Jen Shields M.Ed, LPC

Refugee

You are no one now

Aug 29, 2022

Aug 29, 2022

Loss by Loss

A tale of life in numbers.

Oct 13, 2021

Loss by Loss

Oct 13, 2021

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Love Letters

The beginning of a journey to forgiveness

Sep 25, 2021

Love Letters

Sep 25, 2021

Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself

A conversation with my book.

Sep 21, 2021

Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself

Sep 21, 2021

Chasing My Tail

Longing to know the unknowable.

Sep 11, 2021

Chasing My Tail

Sep 11, 2021

Hands

Memories of parents taken before my coming of age.

Aug 11, 2021

Hands

Aug 11, 2021

Heartbreak Hill

Here’s the thing. I’m wondering how it’s gonna get done. How will the words evolve into something organic after messing around with them…

Jun 15, 2021

Heartbreak Hill

Jun 15, 2021

Nana

Nana, my father’s mother, lived with us in an apartment over the kitchen; what used to be maid’s quarters back in the day. Narrow stairs…

May 3, 2021

Nana

May 3, 2021

Writing Is

Writing is freeing. Writing is powerful. Writing is truth telling in plain sight. Writing is connecting the dots. Writing is saving lives…

Feb 4, 2021

Writing Is

Feb 4, 2021

The Shame that Binds Me

I have not experienced great success or failure in my life. The gaze turned on me with the triumph of one or the other. Risk aversion they…

Jan 7, 2021

The Shame that Binds Me

Jan 7, 2021

I Am From

I am from

Dec 4, 2020

I Am From

Dec 4, 2020

Assignation

I was introduced to her just three months after Mum died. Tall and big-boned, her hair like baled hay long past season, dry and coarse, the…

Nov 28, 2020

Assignation

Nov 28, 2020

Thinking About Memoir

Early wounds leave a scar. Early wounds determine who we become. Who we chose to be. I am defined by my losses.

Nov 18, 2020

Thinking About Memoir

Nov 18, 2020

Jen Shields M.Ed, LPC

Jen Shields M.Ed, LPC

Daughter of ten. Mother of two. Lover of one. Runner of slow miles on wooded paths. Psychotherapist and Writing Instructor at ProjectWrite Now.

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