Connie Jones shares trauma recovery book on healing patterns
Psychotherapist Connie Jones has released her book Green Glitter Girl: A Journey of Hope and Trauma Recovery through the publisher Torchflame Books. The memoir carries the ISBN-13 978-1611536102 and is available for purchase from online retailers including Amazon. The work reached readers with a release date of October 21, 2025, offering insights drawn from both professional practice and personal experience.
With 34 years of experience as a psychotherapist, Jones graduated in psychology from Duke University and developed her individualized approach in private practice. A survivor of early childhood trauma herself, she resides in St. Louis alongside her husband of 30 years, Harry. These details inform her perspective throughout the writing.
The exploration centers on unconscious patterns and recurring behaviors that shape responses to relationships, stress and life challenges. Clues often appear in repeated painful dynamics or reactions that produce unwanted results, yet recognition remains difficult when patterns operate outside conscious awareness. Individuals commonly seek therapy after a crisis makes such patterns impossible to ignore, opening the door to examine underlying beliefs, experiences and nervous system responses.
Jones integrates her deeply personal journey of trauma survival with her clinical perspective. Readers gain understanding of the neurobiology of extreme stress alongside tools for greater self-awareness, self-compassion and hope. Numerous patients have discovered that grasping their own responses allowed them to break free from long-standing patterns that once limited their lives.
The book focuses on nervous system science to show how trauma reshapes the body. Recovery extends beyond simply getting over events. Jones details the process of reclaiming a sense of safety, connection, voice and self through informed awareness of bodily responses.
Stephen Porges, Ph.D., the creator of Polyvagal Theory, provides the foreword to the book. He presents Green Glitter Girl as a story that illustrates the human nervous system’s capacity to adapt, survive and ultimately heal. The contribution highlights the potential for recovery embedded in nervous system functioning.
Jones voices her goal to instill hope among readers. She states that although they may feel overwhelmed and stuck within limited beliefs and self-sabotaging habits, freedom from those constraints remains achievable. Her words emphasize possibility even in the face of persistent challenges.
The Kindness Project draws inspiration from Jones's near-death experience at age three. She and granddaughter Eleanor launched the initiative in 2023 during a family trip, distributing angel tokens and messages that touched recipients including a baggage clerk and flight attendant. Over 1800 tokens have reached schools, retirement homes, workshops and restaurants, with an artist named Bliss contributing prints of the Angel of Kindness. Jones connects the project to a childhood barber's act of kindness that introduced compassion during a loveless time and to the unconditional love from her near-death experience. The effort demonstrates that unconditional love exceeds the power of trauma and serves as a means to communicate healing and redemption. Collaboration with energy healer Melanie, who provided healing support and shares the commitment to love, compassion and spiritual connections, further enriches the work.
