Living With and Through Deep Anxieties with Jewel
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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Jewel is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter who has spent many years focused on transforming her own childhood trauma into something useful for kids across America. By 18 she was shoplifting and homeless and writing the songs that became a critical part of a generation's soundtrack. The child of an absentee mother and an alcoholic father from Homer, Alaska, Jewel left home at 15. Why aren't we taught what to do with pain? Why is everybody in pain and not one person knows how to deal with it? What happened to us?
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