Her book

The Crumbling Tower of My Life is a resounding and moving collection of deeply felt poems. Found within this outpouring of soul are echoes of both hope and hopelessness. Fears are personified, given an identity, and addressed out in the open. This book is a journey through healing, written in tandem with the emotions experienced along the way. It takes you on a ride from a life-shattering ending towards a journey of rebirth.

This poignant collection of poems will have you riding waves of melancholy, relieved by uplifting touches of whimsy and possibility. It beautifully captures the facets of the life we lead through a lens of love and loss.

The lovely, the deluded, the unhinged, the magical, and even the mundane: nothing is off limits with alchemy such as this. Its simple goal is to transform suffering into connection by speaking the darkness into existence. Vulnerability is capable of holding immense beauty and space for a collective to form, even within its breakdown.

This book is an attempt to make tangible the anguish of coping poorly with lost love. It explores all stages of hurt, as well as the overwhelming nature of all the possibilities ahead that remain unknown. It serves as a reminder of the massive mess of love you can gain if you learn to open your heart to it. It is a genuine telling of horrid beauty and a raw expression of the human experience. The journey starts within, and the fight for rebuilding is a worthy one.

ISBN 978-1-839703-9-2

Publishing January 30th 2026

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Gemini’s Love to Talk

Jojo says: “My poetry is another facet of my healing journey. I love words, I am a Gemini Sun and Gemini also rules 4 of my planetary alignments. So as expected good communication is so valuable to me. It is also one of my greatest strengths. To be able to turn thoughts and emotions into words has proven to be a great and valuable skill. Poetry Magic has allowed me to express the unexpressed. To put confusing feelings into understood words with meaning. To bridge the gap between all of us humans experiencing this life paralleled.”

Jojo’s “Why”

Jojo’s Poetry Magic musings are always free flowing and written without structure or rhyming rhythm. They are read line by line, each line capable of standing alone on its own. They explore topics of strong emotions, turmoil, mental health, life’s dramas and life’s loves.

Navigating Mental Health

Ironically, being a Gemini, Jojo also struggles with bipolar disorder. She feels she is both blessed and cursed with a mental illness that carries the energy of duality. In her Poetry Magic she talks a lot of the polarizing effects felt within sufferers of the condition. There will always be ups and downs in anybody’s life. Sufferers of bipolar however experience these ups and downs very prominently, whole heartedly and painfully. They hit the extremes of either end of the polarizing scale of pain and beauty, sadness and joy. They experience these emotions close together and sometimes with no cause and effect leading up to it. This has always caused Jojo a lot of turmoil and she has had difficulty in the past accepting this fate as her own.

The Journey Ahead

More recently Jojo has been able to make peace with this condition. Even better, she had embraced it for what it is. The good and the bad. There is beauty in the joyous madness of mania and there is beauty in the solemn silence of depression. She chooses to look at it as a super power where she gets to experience all facets of life and emotions. Even the hard parts. This has allowed her to learn vital universal truths from a young age and connect to spirit more completely. Her Poetry Magic writings are her way to share these lessons with others. To shine a light on the things not often seen by neurotypical people. Sometimes it takes making friends with darkness to truly appreciate the glimpses of light.

A Blessing in Disguise

Jojo now feels blessed and is grateful to feel everything so strongly. She has been given the gift of fluid emotion and reflection. Mental illness both forces and allows the sufferer to face things they typically would choose to avoid. When not given the option of avoidance, knowledge is gained. After all, knowledge is power. As it brings about growth, peace of mind and understanding.