Published Books

Joi Donaldson - Editor

More than five million people in the United States experience some type of infertility, miscarriage or infant loss. Although this type of trauma is widely acknowledged as something that affects millions of families, many families still feel ashamed, hopeless, and isolated. Resilience Rising is an intimate compilation of stories by families living with infertility who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss. These are stories of families overcoming grief so deep and no longer being silenced by shame and guilt. We're choosing to live, be Resilient, and share our experience with celebrating our moments of joy through this process.

Joi Donaldson - Co-Author

In The Unvoiced Pain: Releasing Depression and Anxiety, eight women bravely share their journeys of surviving grief, infertility, molestation, low self-esteem and postpartum recovery. They courageously share their truths of struggles with depression and anxiety, what they did to overcome and how each day they continue to take one step at a time towards continuous healing. After reading The Unvoiced Pain: Releasing Depression and Anxiety, you will be inspired to release the pain that’s holding you back from fulfilling your purpose. You deserve to live life abundantly!

How My Ancestors Drink Whiskey reads as a conversation had in a new home with tales about the old. Joi Donaldson takes us along her journey of self through love, heartbreak, leaving religion, exploration and discovering her connection to her ancestors.

If you've ever felt that all you've ever known is not enough. That more lies stuck in deeper spaces. That the person in the mirror existing today is just getting started. This book is for you.

The eighth offering from Joi Donaldson strips away all constraints and allows the reader to supply their own stories. From promptings to quotes and blank pages, To My Favorite Author entices who holds this book to no longer hold back but to go deeper.

To flip over the tags and write our own definitions.

In 2009, I gathered old poems and notebooks and tore them to pieces.

In 2012, those torn words became my first book.

In 2014, I reopen these same words with a different tone: Growth has happened.

I've lived just a little more. I've given and gotten the love I missed out on in return; mainly from myself.

All and all, I'm thankful and I celebrate these words again.

One mother's journey to have an adult conversation with her 4 1/2 year old child.