Jackie G

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I learned from a young age that being a woman meant being hungry. Always, always, hungry. I learned that being a woman meant being small, being good, being quiet, and being straight. It wasn’t lost on me that these rules didn’t fit with who I was.

So, instead, I learned how to disappear. 

One Last Family Dinner is a queer memoir about sobriety, eating disorder recovery, and the complexity behind choosing yourself over who your parents want you to be.

I speak to young adults about healing from sexual assault, eating disorders, alcohol addiction, depression, trauma therapy, and coming out.

What’s your relationship like with your body? In my podcast, I discuss the ways the world has trained us to live disconnected from who we are, and how to get back to who we’ve been all along.

Since leaving my childhood house at nineteen, I had a desperate longing for home. Through various moves across the country, abusive relationships, toxic workplaces, an eating disorder, and more, I would have given anything for it. Finding Home is a memoir about learning that the home I was looking for was inside of my own body the whole time.