I’m practically a Jackie Chan. I do my own stunts.

Jun 26

I also do my own photography, my own marketing, my own library donations, and my own coffee spills, which if you look closely at the promotional photo for Parenting Unpacked, you will notice are very much included at no extra charge.

Promotional photo of the book Parenting Unpacked — Not too bad for a first timer.

That is the promotional image. The one I took myself. On my dinning table. With a glass of weak coffee that looks like tea that had been sitting there and two biscuits I placed artfully, which is a generous word for what I did.

Now. The woman who told me I was not a marketer. If you are reading this, I want you to know I have been thinking about your feedback. I have a diploma in marketing. A degree in marketing. A postgraduate qualification in digital marketing. Seven years of corporate marketing experience.

You might have had a point.

Still pretty proud of it though.

Jessica Gabrielzyk

Jessica Gabrielzyk

Jessica Gabrielzyk is a Brazilian writer living in Switzerland. She moved there with her husband and daughter, who was three months old at the time and had strong opinions about the whole thing even then.

She writes about change.

The visible kind and the kind that happens inside a person, while everything on the outside looks fine.

Her first book, Maternity Abroad, explored what it means to become a mother far from the system you trusted. It has reached readers in more than fifteen countries across five continents. Parenting Unpacked, her second book, follows the experience of parenting through major life disruption, whether that's an international move, a career loss, a new baby, or a life that simply stops responding the way it used to. My First American Coloring Book was created to help toddlers engage with daily life in the United States through play and familiar imagery.

She is a member of SIETAR, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and the International Academy of Brazilian Literature.

She writes for the parent who is still inside it, getting through the day, and wondering somewhere underneath all of it who they are becoming.

When she is not writing, she is walking forty minutes uphill with a stroller, telling herself the exercise is the point.

I’m practically a Jackie Chan. I do my own stunts.

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