A memoir · Adrienne Ford
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There's a reason you came.
Stay a while.
Part confession, part atonement, part love letter to the sheer stubbornness of survival, Groove is a raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of moving through the world — the wounds we inherit, the ruts we get stuck in, and the groove we learn to move in.
The pictures were real. I just wasn't in any of them anymore.
Adrienne Ford writes with a confessional candor that refuses to beg.
She narrates suicidal ideation, assault, and church shame in a wry, unsentimental voice that thinks in reclaimed wordplay and extended metaphor — intimate, culturally rooted, and funny at the very edge of grief. Groove is a survivor's account that never asks for pity, only for the truth to finally be said out loud: the difference between a rut and a rhythm, and the long way home to yourself.
Unflinching and unexpectedly hilarious, she's a light back for anyone who's ever felt themselves disappearing. Find your groove
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The songs that carried each chapter. Press play, then add the ones that move you — the tracks that name a feeling you couldn't. This playlist grows with us.
Other channels that keep me in the groove — a growing collection I'll add to as I find what heals.
Podcasts and meditations I return to when I need to soften and listen.
The Niche Is YouImages and visual stories that hold light and honesty at once.
Journals and notebooks for the days you need to write it out.
Where I am right now — what I'm reading and listening to, the people I'm learning from, and the small joys I'm collecting along the way. I keep the light on over at the letter.
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Get in touch ›Adrienne speaks on mental health, complex PTSD, and the courage to be seen. Recent stage: the Alphabet Mental Health Conference, where Camera On: Complex PTSD, the Camera, and the Art of Hiding in Plain Sight drew more than 100 attendees.
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