Blessed: From Crazy to Cool

By Jasmine Love and Trevor McGary

This book is a resource not only for mentally compromised individuals, but for their loved ones as well.
The tools are provided to focus and be grace in these trying times.

Being calm and centered is possible for all of us.
In this brief autobiography, the story shared by Jasmine Love is riveting and encouraging.
It is possible to lead a happy and fulfilling life.
This book also ignites courage in the reader. The courage to show up is sometimes all we need.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9781665502580

Jasmine Love

Jasmine Love is a wellness warrior and a pioneer of positivity with a masters in exercise science, and bachelors in psychology. She has first-hand experience with mental illness throughout her life. In her teen years she suffered with depression, and at the age of 30 she was diagnosed with bipolar. She has been treated by more than 10 psychiatrist since then, with a variety of diagnoses. She has endured more than 15 episodes (strong deviations from normalcy) by the age of 42 when producing this book. She has resided in a variety of places in an attempt to stabilize her after these episodes (hospitals, retreats, and other facilities). Some worked, and some didn’t. She also knows firsthand the experience of denial. Jasmine has served in the wellness field for over 20 years. The modality that is at the foundation of the service is TrueBalance. Ironic huh?!? This was her mind body fitness program and company since 2004. It is a Yin Yang approach to well-being through kickboxing instruction, Pilates, yoga, belly dancing, and Tai Chi. She has always honored the individual, and shared her gifts from the heart. She is a walking toolbox, and has generally rose to the occasion with wisdom, application, and humor. She is a breath of fresh air on an old topic of sanity. She has now found the correct psychiatric treatment and medicine management. As well as generally healthy practices. Solution focused evolution is the name of her game! ************* “Running my mind in circles. So much emotion. The challenges and uncertainty that have arised lately are so intense that I can’t ground. I’d like to say Life, God and the Universe have given me a lot of tools to help myself during these moments. My wonderful and admirable friend Jasmine Love is one of my treasure chest “tools”. She always uplifts in such a way that I can alchemize the situation. I love her and feel so grateful for her support. Her knowledge on mental health and her own experiences are reasons why this book is already a bestseller in my world. Thank you for being Jasmine and for sharing your knowledge!” Valerie Marrou Rico, Exercise Physiologist, Certified Massage Therapist and Yoga Instructor.

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/01/2020

ISBN: 978-1-6655-0139-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6655-0258-0 (e)

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Contents

Who I am, and Where I am

Our Best

Self Awareness

Knowing Grace

The Emotional Experience

How to have the Gumption to act

Purposefully and Mindfully

Self Realization

Navigating Relationships

Peaceful Acceptance

Presentation and Dignity

Be Yourself

My Personal Unfolding

How to be in love with life: choose

goodness on every level.

The Evolution of the Language

Associated with Mental Illness

Choice

The Magic of Meditation and Exercise

The Surrender: Letting Go

Who I am, and

Where I am

I am holding Isabella and smiling. I’m here to take you on a journey. A journey through body, mind, and soul. It is not a journey for the faint-hearted; It may make you turn away at times. There have been many trials and tribulations as is said sometimes. It is life. Life with psychic disruption AKA Mental Illness. How can I be expected to prescribe to this title of mental illness when impeccable speech is a priority?

I am now 40 years old.

Since the age of 30 I have been diagnosed with BiPolar, Schizophrenia, and Abnormal Psychosis all on separate occasions, as well as Schizotypal Personality Disorder.

My spiritual state of self-actualization was ignited in the same year as the first diagnosis.

An interesting and frightening parallel. The state of total bliss and cosmic alignment on August 8th of 2008 (8-8-8) was initiated by my yoga teacher Dharma Mittra, and the first BiPolar(Manic) Episode was in Art Basel on December 6th 0f the same year…Many of my Abnormal Psychoses and Manic Episodes were expressed during following Decembers.

There have been great inspirational states over the past 10 years; and certain deviations from normal in psychic states.

I should mention I’m a medium. I can smell people’s eating habits, many times people’s essences move through me involuntarily. It’s really quite disturbing truthfully. I write from the humblest place in my heart. I don’t understand all there is to know about Mental Health.