Warrior’s Weave: A Memoir of High-Sensitivity, Healing and the Mind Mansion

A raw and heartfelt literary hybrid memoir, voiced in a dual perspective enabling adult Jade to curate a professional Social Worker lens, balancing out the genuine and unfulfilled voice of the inner child’s trauma. Warrior’s Weave captures Jade’s sensitive account of childhood trauma, poverty, profound family loss, the death of her beautiful brother, sibling struggles with drug addiction and violence, narcissism, the aftermath of the measles virus and the institutionalisation of her sister due to profound disability, intergenerational trauma, grief and disability. Jade’s singular voice is embedded in her neurodivergence and ability to craft literary structural metaphor. Warrior’s Weave provides a compelling blueprint on how to develop creative ways to utilise high intelligence in creative and proactive ways. Through honest storytelling, Jade reveals a journey punctuated by adversity and resilience, surviving educational bias, systemic bias and being the family’s phantom child. This memoir realistically offers hope and inspiration to others facing similar battles. Jade’s unique lens allows readers to peek into her world and witness the strength of the human spirit. As the 8th of 10 children, Jade’s account is both harrowing and uplifting, within a gritty Australian context. It is both irreverent and thought provoking. jade leans into her strong use of structural metaphor, as it highlights the way she perceives the world. It is a reclamation of the human spirit, as adult Jade shares stories of her gifted and neurodivergent sons and school refusals. As well as her youngest child, her daughter’s journey with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Jade worked as a Grief Counsellor and this is evidenced by her ability to carefully unpick her father’s passing and the associated compounded grief. Educational, intellectual, entertaining and irreverently funny in places.