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 “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.”

Book Launch - Following Shadows by Janneke Jobsis Brown
Book Launch Party at Booksmart of Morgan Hill, CA

 

“South County Novelist Janneke Jobsis Brown … writes of love, intergenerational trauma and the ultimate sacrifices a family makes (across) generations.”

Visit Booksmart here…

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Pick from topics which blend Janneke’s professional background as a speaker, trainer, and trauma resolution psychotherapist.

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  • 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

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Recent Posts

  • Survivor Psalm
  • Paratrooper "Angels" of WWII
  • Trauma and Truth
  • Do we really recall WWII lessons AND recall WWII history?
  • Open Door

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  • Grace Stories
  • Homesick-Heimwee
  • Thirty Days of Light
  • Trauma-Healing
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Meet Janneke

Janneke Jobsis Brown
Following Shadows is inspired by my own story. As a survivor of an international childhood with parents who were World War II survivors, I know the generational after-effects of starvation and slave labor in Japanese concentration camps for my father, and the terror of Nazi occupation for my mother. I know the challenges of struggling to feel at home across three countries: The Netherlands, Iran and America.

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  • Survivor Psalm
  • Paratrooper "Angels" of WWII
  • Trauma and Truth
  • Do we really recall WWII lessons AND recall WWII history?
  • Open Door

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