I remember being so lonely in school that I would sometimes wake up in the morning wishing myself to sickness so I wouldn't have to face the teasing and rejection I knew was coming the moment I walked through the school doors. And the harder I tried to fit in, the worse it always got. My parents tried everything to help, but nothing ever did. I wish that there had been someone like me now back then, who had endured the bullying and survived, who could have given us real advice on how to get through it all. Not a psychiatrist or academic, not a clergyman or counselor, but a real person who had been there herself and could show us a way out.

That's why I'm here today, and I think why circumstances have led you to this website. I'm forty one years old now and successful. I turned my pain into purpose - that purpose being to help you. If you've read my New York Times Best-Selling book PLEASE STOP LAUGHING AT ME…, then you know what happened to me. If you haven't, I don't want to ruin the ending for you except to say this: there's a happy ending to my story and there can be for you too. Hopefully, you'll find both information and comfort here.

Since the release of my book, life circumstances, actually, all of you have led me down a very different career path. Due to the overwhelming response to the book, I have quite unexpectedly become an activist for the issue of school bullying. I am your voice.

As you read this, I am on tour for Please Stop Laughing at Us...One Survivor's Extraordinary Quest to Prevent School Bullying, my new book. This book is a sequel that picks up where the first book left off and offers solutions for parents, teachers, students and adult survivors. It's set against the narrative back drop of my own personal struggle, turning pain into purpose. If you want to see the press kit for this new book you'll find it under the media room tab on this website.

I'm not just a face in cyberspace. During the school year, I will again be consulting, speaking, and holding workshops and teleseminars for parents, teachers, and students at several schools throughout the United States, Canada, and several other countries throughout the world. I also work with organizations such as police, judicial, government, counseling, PTA’s, school boards, and youth groups. I’ve developed an instructional program for colleges and universities titled “The Desperate Freshman” where I work with administration, faculty, parents, students, and fraternities and sororities to help identify students at risk for becoming hazing and bullying targets. I can come to your school or town, too, and would be honored to be invited. I want to help. Please let me.

Let's get through this together,

Jodee Blanco