Praise for STAY

Some people need to leave home to explore the outside world only to spend a lifetime returning home inside themselves.

Jennifer Gordon left home like a rocket ship accelerating through a felt universe of romantic partnerships, sisterhoods, corporate worlds, electric adventures, and living out loud — until a lifetime of disconnection from herself led to addiction, illness, and inner fracturing from a history of traumas and complicated grief.

STAY portrays a woman's recovery story with a literary richness like a blind traveler brailing nature one touch at a time. Gordon's story takes us deep into the forest's darkness that once scared her, until she learned that darkness is not the enemy to be feared but simply the place where things gestate before they are ready to become visible.

Gordon paints a literary canvas of her life story with a visceral richness that allows readers to enter her felt experience. The way she captures her inner narrative propels us to embody our own self-reflections more deeply.

A thousand horsepower life in search of a barefoot walking pace.

David NeeSmith, PhD
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Reading STAY felt less like reading a memoir and more like sitting beside someone brave enough to tell the truth about what it means to leave yourself in order to survive — and what it takes to return.

Jen guides us back to the body — back to presence, back to sensation, back to the sacred act of staying. She reminds us that healing is rarely dramatic all at once. More often, it is incremental. It is choosing to listen. Choosing to soften. Choosing, moment by moment, to remain inside your own life even after years of learning how to disappear from it.

Her sensitivity, once something that sent her away from herself, becomes the very bridge through which she helps others return home to themselves. That transformation is the heartbeat of this book. Not the wound, but the gift born from surviving it.

Jessica Stone
Intuitive practitioner and teacher
Foreword to STAY

FROM READERS

I just finished your book in two sittings and found it absolutely enthralling. I cannot tell you how much of myself I saw in your words and how much I appreciated seeing my own internal struggles so accurately depicted.

Helen
Reader and friend

She brings us into her world, igniting every sense like it has been a place I have been before. It is a memoir that floods your memories, reminding you of the power of being.

It is a journey to coming back to self. Igniting every sense as the trauma and brilliant moments shape our being, yet reminding us to stay in the magic of the unfolding chapters in our lives.

Jada
Reader and friend