In this book, which is titled “Finding Life's Purpose: Poetry, Blogging, Journaling, and Storytelling,” Joanie explores life challenges through her writing. She expresses anger, fear, optimism, love, and all the emotions we, as human beings, experience. In her poetry, she uses rhythm to express her feelings; in her blogging, she compares and contrasts the human experiences personal, professionals, and explores the experiences of known figures such as Booker T. Washington, Viktor Frankl, Simon Veil, Frederick Douglas, among others, and refers to theorists such as Erik Erikson, Viktor Frankl, Abraham Maslow, Henri Tajfel, Roscoe Pound, Talcott Parson's, and Elizabeth Kubler Ross; in her journaling, she shares her perspective on both poetry and blogging (what she was thinking, how she was feeling, and why she felt the need to write about such topics), and finally she writes fictional stories to provide a narrative about pressing social and societal issues. Some of the topics you will find in this book include:
Overcoming oppression
Unemployment
Romance
Barriers in education
Barriers in healthcare
Community Issues
Human Laws
Theoretical frameworks
Death & Dying
Grieving
At the end of the book, the reader will find thought-provoking questions to reflect on their personal and professional experiences and on how they felt about the content.