“People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.”
-Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Morgan Hill Times, Novel Launch Event
“In this Historical Family Saga, a family is transformed when the elderly Jakob Vanderveer tells of his lost childhood during WWII, in the Japanese Concentration Camps of Indonesia.”

“South County Novelist Janneke Jobsis Brown … writes of love, intergenerational trauma and the ultimate sacrifices a family makes (across) generations.”
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Author Event
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Pick from topics which blend Janneke’s professional background as a speaker, trainer, and trauma resolution psychotherapist.
Topics
- Lessons of WWII – Never Again?
- Anxiety/Panic Recovery
- Children of War/trauma
- Depression – from stagnant to flowing
- EMDR for Trauma Resolution
- Grieving and Healing
- Intergenerational Trauma – War’s Family
- Spirituality and Trauma
- Trauma Resolution
- Twelve Step Recovery
- Addiction/alcoholism
- Codependency
- Family
- Twelver Steps for Everyone
- Women Surviving War
- Writing Classes
- Journaling to Heal
- Everyone has a Story- your Memoir
- Jump Start your Novel
