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Website When I was designing the cover for my Debut book "Without Medication", I thought about every issue and adventure within the pages of this book and what it represented to me personally. The bottom line is "without Medication" is an explosions of events and situations that surrounded the very being of these souls. And because it is somewhat autobiographical,( with a lot of imagination) I wanted the cover to say it deeply. I wanted something that was unusual and something that looked through the soul. I created this picture months in advance of the book. It originated as a self portrait I painted several years ago and really had no idea I would end up using it as the cover. It was in the back of my files and tucked away. Then one day I took a closer look at it and it just hit me with overwhelming feelings and I knew then that this was the cover design. Without Medication is urban fiction, based on a true story and the names have been changed to protect the guilty, while enlightening the innocent. Without Medication tells the story of Jasmine, a black woman growing up in the Deep South during the turn of the civil rights movement. Through the story Jasmine re-lives events in her life with narrative strategies, triggered by flash backs and unexplained black outs. She is on a journey through time trying to find herself and goes on to label herself as what she called ‘Dis-social-para-pressionistic‘, which also at some point in time turned her into a perfectionistic control freak. Jasmine finds that she struggles with multiple personality disorder, and strives to overcome her haunting memories of child abuse, and racial oppression, while at the same time trying to win the affection and approval of her step mother Eden.

Along her journal for success and wholeness, Jasmine dedicates her life to helping others with similar disorders. As time goes on the plot thickens as she searches to find true love and wholeness. She eventual becomes successful in her life and love. Overcoming her personality disorder without the use of any treatment or "without medication", and she ends up not only winning the approval of her step mother, but she also becomes her legal guardian and caregiver when Eden is stricken with Alzheimer’s disease in her later years. As Jasmine searches for destiny, and approval she eventfully finds her own true voice in life.
Without Medication is available in bookstores in the US and the UK.

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All my life I have been a woman of expression, through drawing, singing, dancing and any other form of expression i could find. I love to write and create and when I can combine the two it is even better. And so I learned to turn my imagination in to pictures and my daydreams into stories. I find great joy in helping people find their creative nitches as well. I have come to fully believe that We can not control the hand we are dealt in the game of life, but we can and do very much control how and with whom it is played out. The ultimate choice is up to the individual to make daily decisions of cause and effect that shape the very fabric of our lifes and our well being in general.We have the individual right and the ability to choose to be happy or sad, good or bad, no matter what the situation is that we face. As Paul said, I have learned to be happy and content no matter the state i find myself in. I make the choice to maintain my peace even in the mist of the storms of life. Remaining constant, unmovable and always abiding in the faith I hold dear in my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And through him, I am more than a conquer, I am an overcomer. Therefore i can truly say that i am happy in Jesus alone. And this joy that i have, unspeakable joy, the world didn’t give it to me. And weather i be full or without, the world nor the material things within it can’t take it away. “I don’t like complications, I like things simple and when it gets too complicated, especially if it could be simple, I have to bail out”