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Chapter 44: Wake Up
The One Who Leaves—the time when Mom died
 • Jessy Easton
What To Do Instead of Reflecting or Planning
A refusal of the year-end checklist and a practice in presence
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How a Year’s End Invites a Different Kind of Writing
On capacity, memory, and learning to write from presence instead of survival
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The Threshold That Leads You Back to Yourself
The Threshold is now open—a 4-week somatic writing cohort for women ready to meet the self who can hold the hard story
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Meeting the Self Who Can Hold the Story You Need To Write
The inner shift required to step into the story that’s been waiting
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Prologue: The Storm at the Door
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Chapter 1: The Desert Was A State of Mind
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After five years of rejections, I’m publishing my memoir
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Chapter 2: The Settled
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Read My Memoir

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Chapter 44: Wake Up
The One Who Leaves—the time when Mom died
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Chapter 43: Home
The One Who Leaves—the goodbye I’d rehearsed all my life, and searching for home
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Chapter 42: The Accident
The One Who Leaves—when you have to lose everything to save your life
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Chapter 41: The Old Place
The One Who Leaves—when I tried to get my father to leave my mother
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10-Min Writing Prompts

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Write About Endings - Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay
10-min guided prompt + gentle reset #19
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The Story of an Object - Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay
10-min guided prompt and gentle reset #18
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The Room Holds the Story: Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay
10-min guided prompt + gentle reset #17
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What’s Missing From the Frame - Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay
10-min guided prompt and gentle reset #16
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A Meth Lab Childhood, a Life of Prison Sentences, and Facing the Past (A Love Story)
From 100 rejections a Substack bestseller
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Meth labs, home invasions, the Manson cult, and the way love shapes and breaks us
Table of contents for my memoir, The One Who Leaves, that's serialized right here on Substack
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Silence Was My First Survival Skill
I spent my life hiding where I came from. Here’s what happened when I stopped.
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The Shape of Memory
A story about meth, memory, and the moment I realized the life I came from wasn’t okay—published in The Rumpus
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What Growing Up in a Meth Lab Taught Me About Writing the Truth
Why writing the truth feels so damn hard—and why that’s not your fault.
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Terrified? Same. But I’m doing it anyway.
Meth labs, police raids, and breaking generational cycles—my memoir launches in just 3 days
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Chapter 43: Home
The One Who Leaves—the goodbye I’d rehearsed all my life, and searching for home
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The Fear-to-Flow Framework
A Grounded Approach Writing Through Fear and Getting Your Truth on the Page
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Writing through the wreckage and the reckoning—the time I grew up in a meth lab and other uncomfortable truths.
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