Your Story Matters: Processing Pain and Trauma By Jeffrey Pillow on January 8, 2018 — 4 mins read Serani continues, pointing to humans' basic need to understand, citing research that to begin the healing process we must tell our story: "Our personal narrative offers us a chance for not just understanding, but for reorganization [of] our sense of self. A self that was wounded, broken, frightened or lost—but can now be reclaimed." More
An Empty Chamber, Black and Hollow and Alone By Jeffrey Pillow on July 18, 2017 — 1 min read “Just go out and try to come in. Turn the doorknob and open the door like you normally would. Nothing’s going to happen. You’ll be fine. I want to show X and J how it works.” More
Sleeping Birds Do Not Sing: A Novel (Excerpt) By Jeffrey Pillow on March 23, 2017 — 10 mins read An excerpt from Sleeping Birds Do Not Sing, a novel about mental illness and friendship that I wrote a decade ago that only one person has ever read—until now. More
The Novel That Wasn’t a Novel; or, A Memoir About Paranoid Schizophrenia, Friendship, and Goodbyes By Jeffrey Pillow on July 28, 2016 — 7 mins read Sometimes he would cry uncontrollably as he told me these things. Sometimes I would cry after the phone call was over. I’d sit and stare at the white wall in my bedroom, helpless. I’d think of the beautiful person he once was. I wanted to fight his demons for him, but his demons had no interest in me. More
