About Rachel Thompson

Rachel Thompson released the BadRedhead Media 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge in December 2016 to rave reviews.

She is the author of the award-winning, best-selling Broken Places (one of IndieReader’s “Best of 2015” top books and 2015 Honorable Mention Winner in both the Los Angeles and the San Francisco Book Festivals), and the bestselling, multi award-winning Broken Pieces (as well as two additional humor books. Rachel’s work is also featured in several anthologies (see Books for details).

She owns BadRedhead Media, creating effective social media and book marketing campaigns for authors. Her articles appear regularly in The Huffington Post, Feminine Collective, Indie Reader, Medium, OnMogul, Transformation Is Real, Blue Ink Review, Book Machine, and several others.

Not just an advocate for sexual abuse survivors, Rachel is the creator and founder of the hashtag phenomenon #MondayBlogs and the live weekly Twitter chats, #SexAbuseChat, co-hosted with certified therapist/survivor, Bobbi Parish (Tuesdays, 6pm PST/9pm EST), and #BookMarketingChat, co-hosted with author assistant Emilie Rabitoy (Wednesdays, 6pm PST/9pm EST).

She hates walks in the rain, running out of coffee, and coconut. A single mom, she lives in California with her two kids and two cats, where she daydreams of Thor and vaguely remembers what sleep is.

For contact information, visit rachelintheoc.com or BadRedhead Media at badredheadmedia.com.

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How To Crush Your Writing Fears Right Now

June 10, 2019 by Rachel Thompson 4 Comments

This is How To Find Our Purpose

April 5, 2019 by Rachel Thompson 2 Comments

What is our purpose? Why are we here? Does our purpose change based on our experiences?

This Is What Abuse Survivors Can Learn From Triggers

March 15, 2019 by Rachel Thompson 6 Comments

Unexpected Triggers

This Is Why Peopling Is Hard

January 9, 2019 by Rachel Thompson 20 Comments

5 Mistakes People Make When Discussing Sexual Violence

December 15, 2018 by Rachel Thompson 9 Comments

As a survivor, writer, and sexual abuse survivor activist, I participate in and observe real life and online daily conversations on the topic of sexual violence. Hmmm, the topic of sexual violence — like it’s just a topic, not crimes that affect people for the rest of our lives. That change the very structure of our cells, of our brains. Simply a topic of conversation. Continue Reading...

How To Effectively Balance PTSD and Real Life

October 28, 2018 by Rachel Thompson 4 Comments

10 Things You Need To Know Don’t Matter about Sexual Assault by @BobbiLParish

October 3, 2018 by Rachel Thompson 4 Comments

The Reasons Social Media Breaks Can Help Our Mental Health

August 24, 2018 by Rachel Thompson 6 Comments

I haven’t written for a while and I don’t have one solid reason. I have several. Continue Reading...

Sexual Abuse Is Not A Competition

July 11, 2018 by Rachel Thompson 53 Comments

This is How I Found My Voice and Myself in War and Peace by guest @andrewdkaufman

July 1, 2018 by Rachel Thompson Leave a Comment

At a book talk I gave a few years ago, a teenage boy in the audience, intrigued by the stories I’d been telling about young characters’ tortuous journeys in War and Peace, asked me a question during the Q&A. “Did Tolstoy, like, really experience all that?” The ingenuous question got me thinking, not only about Tolstoy’s writing but my own. And it inspired me to share something I hadn’t quite articulated before in public. Continue Reading...