Hi Jo:
I am glad you spoke up. How are you hoping to connect more? In person? In comments online? In what you read? Are you hoping to post more here? Or maybe you're not quite sure yet...
It's a big site and there are lots of members. It took me a while to get the hang of this site and to connect more. Have you had much chance to explore within the communities? Sometimes those can help you find the local people doing work in or near your community, or help you to find people who might want to start a community. Feel free to browse in any of them.
There are also interest based groups like Parenting with ACEs or Practicing Resilience that are smaller and where people maybe interact with one another by sharing writing, commenting, chatting or sending emails.
You can also do searches to maybe find more topics of interest. There's been a lot published and linked to from this site! And you can start sharing like you did and keep asking questions!
What you experienced so young is horrible. I'd love to learn more about your book and how the process of writing and publishing it was and is for you. I'm a big fan of writing our way to health and to connecting more to ourselves as well as others.
Cissy