With more than 30 years of experience as a therapist, Connie has shared her expertise and her somatic, heart-centered approach with countless adults and young people, helping them to understand and address trauma and its impact on their lives.
Throughout her career, Connie has done television interviews, trainings, talks, and presentations to hospitals, youth groups, and other organizations. Connie has been committed to sharing the psychological — and the physical and spiritual aspects to overcoming traumatic experiences. Green Glitter Girl, her debut book, delves deeper into the approach. Her own journey of healing after trauma informs her work as a therapist; she is passionate about helping others find a way to bring peace and wellbeing to their own lives. Connie was interviewed for the book, The Forever Angels by P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D., published in 2019.
Connie is married (Harry) and lives in St. Louis, MO. She has a son (Bobby) and a daughter (Sarah) and four grandchildren. Recently she and her granddaughter, Eleanor were recently featured on KMOV in St. Louis for their heartfelt efforts, The Kindness Project.
Green Glitter Girl
Born to two profoundly depressed parents, a little girl watched her baby sister die—and spent the next three decades learning to survive a house built on silence, neglect, and abuse.
Green Glitter Girl is therapist Connie C. Jones's own story: a frank, somatically-grounded memoir tracing how trauma reshapes a nervous system in childhood, and how healing actually happens in the body, not just the mind. Written with co-author and spiritual healer, Melanie Davis-Jones, it blends personal narrative with the psychological and physiological insight of Connie's thirty-plus years as a trauma therapist.
Midwest Book Review calls it a memoir that “also acts as a self-help guide,” recommending it for library collections, book clubs, and psychology reading groups alike.
If you've read The Body Keeps the Score or follow the polyvagal and nervous-system-healing conversation, this is the lived, human story behind the science—proof that the body's capacity to heal is real.
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