Green Glitter Girl: A Journey of Hope and Trauma Recovery

Foreword by Stephen Porges, PhD, the psychiatrist who created Polyvagal Theory

Born to two profoundly depressed parents, a little girl watched her baby sister die-and spent the next three decades learning to survive a house built on silence, neglect, and abuse.

Green Glitter Girl is therapist Connie C. Jones's own story: a frank, somatically-grounded memoir tracing how trauma reshapes a nervous system in childhood, and how healing actually happens in the body, not just the mind. Written with co-author and spiritual healer, Melanie Davis-Jones, it blends personal narrative with the psychological and physiological insight of Connie's thirty-plus years as a trauma therapist.

Midwest Book Review calls it a memoir that "also acts as a self-help guide," recommending it for library collections, book clubs, and psychology reading groups alike.

If you've read The Body Keeps the Score or follow the polyvagal and nervous-system-healing conversation, this is the lived, human story behind the science-proof that the body's capacity to heal is real.