Jennifer Gordon Event

Name: Jennifer Gordon Event
Start: 2026-10-01T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-10-01T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Jennifer Gordon Event

October 1, 2026 @ 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Overview

At thirteen, lying in the dark in Vicksburg, Mississippi, I floated out of my own body for the first time. It felt like relief.

STAY is the memoir of a woman born with a sensitivity so acute it would take decades to understand - and the slow, unglamorous, irreversible work of learning to come back.

For anyone who has ever felt outside their own life looking in.

For those who have built outwardly functional lives - careers, marriages, parenthood, achievement - while feeling inwardly disconnected and quietly depleted. This is a book for readers wary of quick fixes and spiritual bypassing, who are seeking a grounded account of how healing actually unfolds across time, not through sudden insight.

Through a high-achieving adolescence, four cities, two marriages, chronic illness, and the loss of her sister to addiction, Jennifer Gordon spent decades using motion and intensity and substances to stay one step ahead of the stillness at her center. STAY is the story of what finally allowed her to stop running - and what she discovered when she did.

It is a literary memoir about embodiment, sensitivity, and the slow integration of a life.