Rebuilding After Abuse
Rebuilding After Abuse is a compassionate and empowering guide for survivors of domestic violence and emotional trauma who are ready to begin again—on their own terms.
Written by advocate, behavioral health professional, and survivor Jennifer Tweeten, this book offers a warm and accessible roadmap to reclaiming your life after the storm of abuse. Unlike dense clinical texts or surface-level self-help, this guide meets readers where they are—with honesty, empathy, and deep understanding.
Each chapter explores a critical piece of the healing process: from recognizing the many forms of abuse and navigating survivor emotions like fear, guilt, and grief, to rediscovering your self-worth, building healthy boundaries, and creating a future rooted in love, safety, and personal power.
Blending survivor reflections, therapeutic insights, and gentle encouragement, this book includes:
- Clear explanations of emotional, physical, financial, and psychological abuse
- Real stories and validating language that speak directly to survivors
- Supportive guidance on processing trauma, rebuilding identity, and reclaiming joy
“Healing doesn’t mean forgetting what happened—it means remembering without fear and rebuilding with intention.”
— Jennifer Tweeten, Rebuilding After Abuse
“You are not broken. You are a survivor of something meant to destroy you, and that makes you powerful beyond measure.”
— Jennifer Tweeten, Rebuilding After Abuse
“Rebuilding after abuse is not about fixing who you are. It’s about reclaiming who you were before the world convinced you to shrink.”
— Jennifer Tweeten, Rebuilding After Abuse
Navigating Relationships After Abuse
TO BE RELEASED 2025
Healing doesn’t end when the abuse does. Sometimes, it’s just the beginning.
Navigating Relationships After Abuse is a heartfelt, honest, and deeply relatable guide for survivors learning to love—and trust—again. Whether you’re entering a new romantic relationship, rebuilding connections with family and friends, or learning to love yourself, this book gently walks beside you through the emotional complexities of post-abuse relationships.
Written by survivor and behavioral health technician Jennifer Tweeten, this book validates the hidden struggles so many face: fear of being vulnerable, insecurity, difficulty trusting, and the triggers that don’t just disappear when the abuse ends. With wisdom, warmth, and lived experience, Jennifer offers survivors a safe space to untangle their feelings and find clarity in the chaos.
Inside, you’ll find:
- Honest reflections on the emotional aftermath of abuse
- Support for identifying and unlearning toxic patterns
- Guidance on setting healthy boundaries, improving communication, and recognizing red flags
- Insight into the impact of trauma on trust, intimacy, and emotional safety
- Real survivor stories, empowering quotes, and thoughtful journaling prompts
- A focus on self-love, emotional maturity, and reclaiming your voice
You deserve love that doesn’t hurt. This book won’t tell you how to fix every relationship—it will help you rebuild the most important one: the one you have with yourself.
Whether you’re newly healing or years removed from the past, Navigating Relationships After Abuse is a compassionate companion to help you move forward with confidence, courage, and connection.
“Loving again after abuse isn’t about finding someone to complete you—it’s about learning to feel safe, seen, and whole in your own skin first.”
— Jennifer Tweeten, Navigating Relationships After Abuse
“Triggers don’t mean you’re broken. They’re reminders that you survived—and they deserve your compassion, not your shame.”
— Jennifer Tweeten, Navigating Relationships After Abuse
“Healing in a relationship means unlearning survival mode, building trust brick by brick, and giving yourself permission to be loved gently.”
— Jennifer Tweeten, Navigating Relationships After Abuse
Echoes of Survival: The Whispers of Resilience
Echoes of Survival is a raw, soul-stirring collection of poetry that captures the quiet strength, shattered pieces, and sacred rebuilding that come after trauma. Written by survivor and advocate Jennifer Tweeten, this collection is a lyrical journey through the pain of abuse, the fight for freedom, and the sacred act of choosing yourself—again and again.
Each poem is a whisper from the heart—a reflection of survival, grief, healing, and hope. These pages do not shy away from the darkness, but they also illuminate the light that emerges when we begin to speak our truth and reclaim our power.
This collection is for:
- Those still healing in silence
- Survivors learning to use their voice
- Anyone who’s ever felt broken but refused to stay that way
- Those seeking comfort in shared experience and poetic reflection
With themes of abandonment, resilience, motherhood, self-love, heartbreak, and survival, Jennifer’s words are both deeply personal and universally human. They don’t promise easy answers—but they do promise solidarity, truth, and the unwavering belief that even the quietest voice can rise.
“I wrote these poems with trembling hands and a burning heart—because someone, somewhere, needs to know they’re not alone.”
— Jennifer Tweeten
Let these poems echo through your soul—and remind you that healing isn’t linear, but it is always possible.
“I died in pieces, quietly—so the world wouldn’t notice.
But I rose louder, stronger, with every piece I picked back up.”
— Jennifer Tweeten, Echoes of Survival
“They buried me in silence,
but even in the dirt, I whispered:
I am still here.”
— Jennifer Tweeten, Echoes of Survival
“Survival isn’t the absence of pain—
it’s the decision to keep living
even when your soul is still bleeding.”
— Jennifer Tweeten, Echoes of Survival
Through The Fire I Rise: Finding Strength in the Ashes
Coming Soon 2025-26
Through the Fire I Rise: Finding Strength in the Ashes is a raw, unfiltered journey through the pain, survival, and resilience of a woman who refused to be destroyed by the hand life dealt her.
Jennifer Tweeten opens the vault on her life — a life shaped by childhood trauma, generational abuse, addiction, betrayal, and heartbreaking cycles of violence — and she tells her story with unwavering honesty.
From the innocence of climbing apricot trees under the California sun, to the heavy weight of secrets no child should carry, to the search for love in all the wrong places, Jennifer’s memoir paints a portrait of what it means to be broken — and what it means to rise anyway.
This is not a story polished to perfection.
It’s the real, messy, beautiful truth about learning to heal when life gave no blueprint for survival.
It’s about falling down again and again — and standing up one more time than you fall.
It’s about breaking the cycle.
About choosing healing even when it hurts.
About refusing to let the darkness write the ending.
For anyone who has ever been wounded by the people who were supposed to protect them, for anyone who has fought to break free from a legacy of pain, Through the Fire I Rise offers one simple, powerful truth:
You are not what hurt you.
You are what you choose to become.
“Pedophilia is a disease. A disgusting, unforgivable disease that infects family lines like a curse unless someone is brave enough to stop it. My mother never chose healing. Instead, she carried on the narcissism and victimhood she learned. She stayed trapped there."
— Jennifer Tweeten, Through The Fire I Rise
"At first, he seemed harmless enough. He would invite me to sit on his lap to watch cartoons, but the way his hands lingered—rubbing my arms, my back, my thighs—made me squirm inside.
Then he started asking more of me. He told me to sneak over while my mother was asleep, whispering:
“Wear your nightgown…but no panties. You don’t need them—they’re uncomfortable.”"
— Jennifer Tweeten, Through The Fire I Rise
"To be honest, I can’t remember how my dad reacted when he first saw me at the airport.
He isn’t an emotional man—never was.
I can’t recall him ever outwardly showing love.
With my dad, I always felt more like an obligation than a daughter."
— Jennifer Tweeten, Through The Fire I Rise