Join The Inner Room
A somatic writing community for women who want to stay in ritual and rhythm with their bodies, their truth, and the page.
The Inner Room is an ongoing writing practice rooted in ritual, relationship, and return. We ground into the body before the writing begins. We move slowly. We stay in relationship with our stories over time, inside a steady, intimate circle.
This is about devotion and building a rhythm you can sustain. A place where your writing becomes part of your life instead of something you're always trying to find your way back to. Each week we gather for live writing sessions. Once a month, we come together for deeper somatic and craft workshops. There is space for reflection, connection, and the kind of accountability that comes from knowing you are not carrying your work alone.
Hard stories rarely unfold all at once. They ask for time, repetition, care, community, and a place where you can keep coming back.
This is that place. Write with us here.
Enter The Threshold
The Threshold is a four-week somatic writing cohort for women who are ready to stop white-knuckling their way through the hard story and begin building a relationship with the self who can hold it.
You don't have to leave yourself in order to tell the truth.
Most of us don't struggle to write because we don't know what happened. We know. We know it in our bones. We struggle because our bodies learned that remembering and reliving were the same thing. Every time we reach for the page, another part of us reaches for protection. And when the nervous system senses threat, writing doesn't open—it contracts.
That's why the work begins before the writing does.
Through gentle somatic practices, guided writing, and intimate community, we slow the moment down. You'll learn a different way of approaching your story—one that helps you stay in relationship with yourself as emotionally charged memories arise. You'll practice noticing when you've left yourself, and finding your way back.
This isn't a series of craft classes. It's an initiation into a different relationship with your story, your body, and yourself. One rooted in presence, curiosity, clarity, and choice.
If you can feel the story pressing at the edges of your life, you already know why you're here.
The Threshold is where we stop trying to force our way into the story and begin learning another way through.
Space is limited. I’d love to have you.
Read My Memoir
The One Who Leaves begins when I return to the dust-bowl town off Route 66 I'd spent my life trying to escape, after my mother is facing felony charges—again. Hoping to finally understand the truth of our shared past, I take her away from the Mojave for one last road trip. As the miles unfold, her stories unfurl like a labyrinth: a childhood shaped by violence and absence, prison alongside Susan Atkins of the Manson cult, the meth lab my father built inside our sun-bleached home, and the generations of grief and addiction that shaped us both.
But this isn't just my mother's story.
It's the story of a daughter trying to make sense of the woman who kept leaving. A child who believed that if she could just understand her mother, she'd finally understand herself. It's about what it means to come home to the place you've spent your whole life trying to outrun—about what we inherit without knowing it, and what it costs to finally put it down.
This is a raw, unflinching exploration of the ties that bind us to family, the lasting imprint of addiction, and the possibility of redemption. It’s the story of who we become both because of and despite a mother’s love.
1:1 Mentorship
Private creative mentorship for writers, memoirists, and women building meaningful bodies of work.
Sometimes the work calls for one-on-one attention. It asks for someone to think beside you, help you see what you can't yet see, and hold both the creative vision and the emotional realities of making something that matters.
Whether you're writing a memoir, building a Substack, or bringing an idea into the world, these one-on-one sessions meet you where you are—making space for the fear, the resistance, the vision, and the craft, all at once.
You don't have to figure it out alone.
Read My Newsletter
To read more of my writing, you can subscribe to AFTER/WORDS, my Substack newsletter where I publish personal essays, somatic writing practices, and my serialized memoir, The One Who Leaves.
My work explores the stories we carry in our bodies long after they've happened. I write about growing up in a meth lab, addiction, family, motherhood, memory, and the complicated inheritance of love. I'm interested in the stories we spend years circling, the ones we believe we're not ready to tell, and what happens when we finally turn toward them.
AFTER/WORDS is also a place to practice. Alongside essays, I share guided writing invitations, somatic practices, and live gatherings that explore a different way of writing the hard thing. Not by pushing harder or white-knuckling our way through the story, but by learning how to stay in relationship with ourselves while we tell it. It's a space for writers who want to stop doing this work alone and begin finding their way back to themselves, one story at a time.
From the Dust
From the Dust is a collaborative collection of stories and songs that explores addiction, identity, love, and the unseen interiors of family life.
The book follows a younger version of me as I return to the California desert where I grew up, chasing the shadow of my mother through the places that shaped us both. These are stories about loving someone who can’t stay, about growing up alongside addiction, and about the long, complicated work of trying to understand where you come from—and who you are in relation to it.
This work of creative nonfiction precedes my memoir. It’s not the whole story. It’s a crack in the door. An offering. A glimpse into the larger truths I later unfold in The One Who Leaves. Writing these pieces meant returning to the dust of where I came from—to a godforsaken town on the edge of nowhere—and staying long enough to look at the darker interiors of love and survival, and at how something honest, even beautiful, can be made from that return.
From the Dust is also a collaborative project that blends mediums and lives. The book is released alongside a cassette tape by my partner, Perry Rhodes. Side A includes three singles from his album, Wake of Dust, that correspond to the stories in the collection, along with a bonus track and previously unheard audio interviews with my mother recorded during our time in the desert. Side B features the For Her instrumental EP and an additional bonus track.
This project is an early map of my work—life, memory, and meaning-making in conversation with art, sound, and story.
Limited quantities are available.
About
Jessy Easton is a writer, memoirist, and somatic writing facilitator.
She works primarily in personal narrative, exploring memory, trauma, motherhood, addiction, and identity, with a particular focus on how stories live in the body. Her work is less concerned with what the truth is than with how we tell it—how we stay with ourselves while writing, how we build enough internal safety and choice to enter emotionally charged stories, and how we find our way back to ourselves when the writing asks a lot from us.
She is the founder of The Inner Room, an ongoing somatic writing community where she teaches an embodied approach to storytelling rooted in the belief that we don't have to leave ourselves in order to tell the truth. Blending literature, somatic practices, writing invitations, and communal witnessing, The Inner Room is a place where women deepen their relationship with themselves and the stories they carry, supported by a community of women doing the same.
Alongside her community, Jessy offers The Deep Work, private mentorship for writers, memoirists, and women building meaningful bodies of work. Whether she's helping someone shape a memoir, grow a Substack, or finally bring the thing they can't stop thinking about into the world, her work holds both the emotional and practical realities of making art. She also works as a developmental editor for memoir, personal essay, and narrative nonfiction.
She is the author of the serialized memoir The One Who Leaves, a Substack bestseller. Her Substack, AFTER/WORDS, is a space where readers engage with difficult stories through essays, live sessions, and somatic writing prompts focused on memory, lived experience, and the body. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, Good River Review, Beacon Quarterly, Rappahannock Review, and elsewhere, and her essay “The Things We Leave Out” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Born in the Mojave Desert of California, Jessy now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains with her partner, their son, and their two black dogs. She is currently working on her next book.
Contact
Email me at jessyeaston@gmail.com, or contact me via the form.
