Co-author Melanie Davis-Jones holds a degree in English from Duke University. An experienced brand strategist and nonprofit executive, she serves on the board of Soul Seeds, a nonprofit organization that supports the social-emotional health of individuals in underserved communities by teaching specific meditation techniques. Her passion for service was fueled by fifteen years as a volunteer with Source Force, a small grassroots group that provided meals, clothing, groceries, and love to people with HIV/AIDS. Melanie lives in Los Angeles, CA and has identical twin sons (Cameron and Colin). She is a skilled intuitive energy healer, certified in trauma-informed approaches, with a private practice, Zaia Energy Works.
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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