The Hollow Project featuring Daniel's Window and Jena Morrow

Well-written, strikingly honest, and full of hope. - Jane Rubietta, author of Come Along and Grace Points

If you or a loved one needs to know there really is a way out of the strong clutches of the self hatred of an eating disorder, you will want to walk with Jena through each page. You will find a new strength and a fresh hope. - Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D., author of Hope, Help, and Healing for Eating Disorders

Hollow pulled me into a world I knew little about, held me there with its raw authenticity, and gave me empathy for those who struggle with eating disorders. Anyone battling food issues should read this book. But more than that, anyone who loves someone in an eating disorder's clutches should scour its pages for understanding.
- Mary DeMuth, author of Thin Places: a Memoir

Click the link to hear a live interview with author Jena Morrow. - Chris Fabry Live!

Click the link to hear a live interview with author Jena Morrow. - Midday Connection

By J.W. Bergmann

In HOLLOW, Jena Morrow writes of an inner-battle that has been there since early childhood and her fear of being found out. Reluctantly, the author makes the conscious decision to trust God and her counselors in the quest to become healthy. I found myself wrestling alongside her for the answers and in hope of resolution. Quite honestly, I became her cheerleader along the way.

Throughout the book Ms. Morrow honestly processes her struggles, shares milestones and pitfalls along the path while revealing the source of her hope and strength. Here is a great example:

“I wonder how many believers struggle in silence with taboo challenges – mental illness, addiction, obsessive thinking – because we wonder how we might be judged as followers of Christ. This must be heartbreaking to God, who longs to restore us and make us whole and whose love for us is big enough to withstand our ugliest secrets, none of which we could ever hide from His eyes, anyway.”

Readers will find this life-work to be a painfully honest, “let’s sit down and have a chat” volume of healing. I highly recommend HOLLOW to anyone who has found themselves feeling lost, confused or beyond reach. There is hope… and you will be inspired by Jena’s journey.

A word of thanks should be given to Ms. Morrow for opening her soul to us and sharing freely. This is one of the most honest, open, vulnerable, real books that I’ve read in a long time. I am certain that many will point back to the reading of this chronicle as a major mile-marker in their journey to a healthy life! - JW Bergmann

By Kristin McGuire

You know, it's not very often I read a book which leaves me unsure of what to think about it but Hollow by Jena Morrow has managed to accomplish that feat. The book is an eye-opening memoir of Jena's struggle throughout her life with Anorexia, the cruel eating disorder which leaves young women (and some men) battling a distorted view of their body.

In an open and sometimes painfully frank account, Jena invites the reader to a clearer understanding of the progression of anorexia as a kind of coping mechanism gone awry into mental illness. How fear and a need for control becomes distorted, manifesting into obsessive control through food and brutal submission of the body. She describes the inner conversation and struggle she's had for most of her life, her time at Remuda Ranch for in-patient treatment, and introduces us to others (both patients and therapists) who shared the journey with her.

I confess this book was hard for me to read. As a person who has struggled with weight issues most of my life via yo-yo dieting (although nothing like a true eating disorder such as Anorexia or Bulimia) I experienced a variety of emotions while reading this book. I sorrowed over Jena's descent into vicious self-loathing. I worried over her health as she literally starved herself before going into therapy. I commiserated with her when she had trouble connecting with a particular therapist, and I cheered as she found comfort in the Lord. Even so, the strongest emotion I felt while reading this book was anger. Ridiculous, inexplicable, want to slap the author up-side the head kind of "righteous" indignation.

How dare she call herself "fat" when she obviously has never been and has no idea what it could possibly feel or be like…ever! Every time she called herself a "cow" it made me wonder what she would secretly think about me. How dare this obviously beautiful woman hate and attempt to destroy exactly what I have always wanted…the "ideal" of what everything and seemingly everyone in this culture esteems.

And that is the reason I recommend Hollow by Jena Morrow as a must-read for every teenage girl or woman!

In our society, we have a perception of perfection for face and body that is so narrow and unrealistic. Is it any wonder so many young girls and women are worried to the point of paranoia (or in extreme cases such as Jena's mental illness) about how they look, checking their "rear bumper" in the mirror to make sure it's "not too big"? WE are all so worried about having the "right" clothes, makeup, hair, and body. Companies make a fortune on the latest "fat busting" diet or technique, the face cream that will banish wrinkles forever. For heavens sake there is even now a disorder for people who become obsessed with organic or "clean" foods! God created us all as individual, unique, and marvelous in His sight yet we do not look to Him for our self-awareness but to the sinful, flawed vision of man.

There are no easy answers to the problem of body image and Hollow by Jena Morrow does not necessarily offer any, which is another reason to like this book. You will come away with a different view of your own body and a better awareness of those "skinny" girls who seem to have what everyone wants. What this book primarily offers is the clear view of our primary source of redemption, healing, and grace as we walk one day at a time in our skin.
- Point of View