My writing explores love, growing up, trauma, and the work of finding yourself again.
Explore my work through the LOVE Principle, books for teen readers, and my trauma memoir.
Listen. Observe. Validate. Encourage.
A practical framework for expressing love through everyday actions—helping people feel heard, understood, and supported.
Listen with attention. Observe with care. Validate another person’s experience. Encourage their growth. My developing children’s book, What Love Is All About, brings these ideas into everyday life for young readers.
Stories of relationships, loss, faith, and finding a voice while growing up.
Waking Marissa — also listed as Drawing Marissa.
Published under Jessica Gaffney and Jessica Adriel.
My personal story of trauma, survival, and finding my way back to my own voice.
A reflection on the cost of holding everything together, the experience of losing yourself, and the work of rebuilding a life in which your own voice matters.