My Paper Back of The Story of The Pill and The Book of Ryan David of Gethsemane is Published on Amazon today 10/19/2025 and the Kindle book is available in Kindle book Store. Ready to order. Enjoy your read. Sherry M Joiner

Grateful for the ADA American Disabilities Act of 1990 and being supported as I had psychiatric, mental ,emotional conditions, and physical defects from growing up in my youth with polio disease. I was blessed by great leaders and Presidents who cared for me and stood by me. They pushed my achievements to the top while I worked in the workforce. Thank you so much! A Special Thanks to President Barack Obama and to Senator Merkley for your skills and knowledge in this field and for helping me and others become the true masters of our effects and disabilities. Our journey to progress is made easier because of you, Sincerely, Sherry M Joiner

Though my Man Joe, was a Jack of All Trades and had juvenile diabetes, nothing would stop him from mustering up enough energy and strength to kneel on top of my art shed and to build its walls and to run a chain saw to build tables, cabinets, and chairs without an assistant. This s my man, Joseph the carpenter by Artist and Artur, Sherry M Joiner Self innovated and undeniably reliable and strong. My one of a kind guy,

Sending my orange Rose to the White House for New Beginnings, Abundance, Passions, Times cannot be Bought or Forgotten, A Gift of skill and steadfast courage to remain with consideration and love for the people now and until the end f time. Artist Sherry M Joiner Orange Patriotic Rose, Watercolor

Happy 48th Anniversary Joe, Thankyou for everything, Amor e Abracas, your wife, Sherry

Celebrating ADA Day. I am so grateful for my way to communicate, bring history and knowledge and help others heal through my writing. Love Peace, and Blessings.

Pastle drawing, Indigenous Man from the Amazon Rain Forest Brazil, Painted by Artist and Author Sherry M Joiner

Brazil Flores Painted by Artist and Author Sherry M Joiner

My Brazilian Mom Maria Bezerra Standing

A Few of my Brazilian, Mom, Maria’s Sayings. Make your Positive Thinking your priority in Life. Our brains are tools of managing stress and they are the real key to success. Be heart, mind, body, soul. happy and nourished, keep faith. Pray and meditate on the healing with intercession of the Saints, angels and creator . Deus Bless Mom Amor

1921-1989 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

Happy 4th, 2025 President Joe Biden, with Luanne Davis and Sherry M Joiner, Ladies in Blue and Organizing for America

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, Painted by Author and Artist Sherry M Joiner, Thank you to my Medical Doctor, Dr. Ward T Smith therapist, and psychiatrist, of 26 years, for showing me the way through Schizoaffective Disorder condition and helping me cope and deal with this complicated disease. I was able to paint my light at the end of the tunnel.

THANK YOU THAT I RECEIVE AND LEARN FROM YOUR MESSAGES YOU SEND FROM HEAVEN, Mom..As the gold-yellow fall leaves leap into fall’s scenery, my thoughts are mystified at the beauty of the season. The simple things in life come into view. I find that putting away my summer clothes before autumn bursts, helps me un-cloud the obsessive thoughts that creep up on me and prevent me from getting things done. Organizing and focusing on detail, helps to get my mind off of actions weakened by the past. As I open my metallic blue case which I use to keep my roller skates in, I unpack my teal long-sleeved dress, orange, dark blue sweaters, and jackets that were stored for the winter.

I begin to wonder, have the coffee-stained leaves of autumn caused me to feel nostalgic? The parades, enjoying time with children, and dipping my feet in the ocean? All seemed so essential. With the shedding of the warm skies, the velvet greenery and brilliant flowers, questions begin to circulate in my mind. “Did summer rob me of my sanity?” Sometimes I ran around like a bee from flower to flower sucking out the nectar of experiences, carefree and happy as if there was an infinite purpose to my being. Other times I was brought to my knees as I heard news of sicknesses and deaths of loved ones. I finally realized I must have a plan to keep my healthy lifestyle that I have so cherished in the past so I try to take steps to stay well and keep well. So I pack and unpack.

Grieving will take place in the autumn. My brother, Doug, at 32 years old made his walk up the stairs t o the gateway of heaven with AIDS. September 16, 1990. My Mom, Maria ended her life in February a year before before him. Their anniversaries occurred during Suicide Awareness Month 2025 The sun had difficulty shining through the clouds on the gloomiest day. If I could suggest one thing for people struggling with schizoaffective disorder it would be to try to get plenty of rest, outdoor light, exercise, do art, and enjoy the beautiful yellows, oranges, reds and golds of autumn. Enjoy the people you are with. When you breathe in the fresh air, your spirits will lift and ripen like the fruit on a tree.

I have written my memoirs Sherry Goes Sane: Living A Life With Schizo-Affective Disorder and Last Miracle for Maria. I want others who have schizo-affective disorder and people around them to know that they can live a happy and useful and meaningful life in the beauty that surrounds them.

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There is a difference of coming on to someone and laughing and joking with someone about their human being purpose and acting abilities. Rolling Twenties Fund Raiser NAMI Clackamas several years ago.

Me the Flapper.

2004 Sailing away, I am on a ferry from Joao Pessoa Brazil to the Ilha de Areia Vermelha, Brazil with my cousins.. The turquois green water is so shallow there that you can see brilliant rocks and shells making kaleidoscopes with the sun as you begin to snorkel with or without goggles or sun glasses on. This was one of my favorite beautiful healing adventures.

For May is the Mental Health Month, My late brother Doug brings love and solace to my mind.. He was a good advocate of mental health for me. When my brother was living, he gave me strength by telling me that for everyday there is no reason to make an excuse for anything you want to do because the precious things what you achieve and work for the importance in your life defines the person you are. My brother and me suffered from the abusive hands of our step father together. Upon his passing with AIDS I sewed and created an AIDS Memorial Quilt panel to honor him, and it was displayed at the AIDS Memorial Quilt exhibit on the White House lawn. I look up to my brother Doug, Actor, and Nurse who died of AIDS as my healer. I miss and love him so much, AIDS took him too soon.

Doug and Me.

My Mom Maria, taught me to ask forgiveness for what we were held accountable for, To suffer humility with grace and compassion and to realize we had done the best we could under the circumstances. She said to give life our best shot under our conditions. Thank you, Mom for your imagery and grace and to be able to open up and interact with others through my art.

At the East Moreland ,pond The mallards, ducks and geese continued to keep time marching coasting and swimming onward on their peace March. I was able to talk to few famous with squak, quak, sweet nothings, and sending my love as I repeated back, peace, love, happiness and healing. I actually felt like I had jumped into the pond itself and changed the world with magic.. was beautiful. My Partner and husband, Joe was wearing his Change T-Shirt, from Obama days.

Because I’m a freak of nature, my hair Is red and my skin turns dark in the sun and my relatives are dark skinned Brazilian, I paint my spiritual leaders’ portraits with Dark skin as well as I see them. The Mystery and vision of Mary with the Golden Tears came to me while I was escaping danger and was trying to save the lives of others. Family ,friends and little ones needed protection.. My life was being compromised by others that blamed their attacks on my mental health, already corrected. I drew solace from painting this picture. Author rand Artist Sherry M joiner

Mother Mary and Mary Madalene Painted by Sherry M Joiner

THE MESSIAH CROWN OF THORNS PAINTED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST SHERRY M.. JOINER Dear St. Anthony Prayer of Intercession with Christ, Compassion and Guidance. June 14 Protest Day. I ask of your intercession for those suffering from need in the March and Demonstrations in US today. Give us full spirit and full heart regards to all creatures, all mind, and all body, and soul. Help us make achievements in medicine, nutrition, education, environment, the way we treat others and other countries, and restore humanity, the colors, immigrants. religions, history, women and, gendre, rights and races, Give us wonderful miracles to reinstate federal workers and the safety of the police, and citizens and Democratic politicians. My feet stumble and do not carry, but My Protest will be a PATH OF TRUTH and Freedom and I will be refusing any dominance from a world that tries to make a cruel person out of me and others.. Deus Bless, obrigads, St. Anthony —–Sherry

Dear Father, I pray that this Easter we are able to work through our challenges with cancer, Diabetes, Parkinsons, heart disease, dementia, alzheimers and mental and physical conditions with the abundant and proper medical knowledge and medical equipment. Muito obrigads, muito amor Deus bless, Painting of Jesus by sherry

I WAS ABLE TO USE SEVERAL OF MY PAINTINGS FOR THE SOUL BOX DESIGN MY FRIENDS WHO HELPED ME TO CREATE AND PUT TOGETHER FOR THE SOUL BOX PROJECT IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE. I WORKED AS A VOLUNTEER FOR THE SOUL BOX PROJECT TO BRING AWARENESS AND PREVENTION OF GUN VIOLENCE.

SENDING MY LOVE AND PRAYERS FOR HOPE AND HEALING TO PRESIDENT ZELENSKY, FAMILY, AND WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND MEN WHO FALL VICTIM OF INKURY AND DEATH TO TRAGEDIES IN UKRAINE, THE MIDDLE EAST AND COUNTRIES ABROAD AND AT HOME. ME AND MY RABBIT. MY TREASURED GIFT gift to me ON MY TRIP HOME TO SEE MY FAMILY IN BRAZIL TO SYCAMORE ILLINOIS. 1978. I WAS FIGHTING MY OWN CAUSE FOR WOMEN;S RIGHTS AND MY SANITY. 60 MILES AWAY WERE MARCHES IN CHICAGO.

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THIS MAY, MENTAL HEALTH MONTH, I REMEMBER THE TOOLS MY MOM USED TO TAKE CARE OF HER MENTAL HEALTH THAT PLAGUED HER MIND FOR MANY YEARS. SHE PAINTED MONARCH butterflies THAT captured the beautiful movement flitting to flower from flower to renew her kind SPIRITUAL spirit with and self actualization of worth and capability. She traveled to and from Hawaii AND WITNESSED THE SWARM OF MONARCHS WARNING THE INHABITANTS AS THEY ESCAPED THE ERUPTIONS OF THE VOLCANOS Artist MARIA BEZERRA STANDING

Good Friday, I WENT SWIMMING AND MY SISTER AND HER HUSBAND SENT ME A BEAUTTIFUL BOUQUET OF EASTER FLOWERS ALL DECKED OUT IN COLORFUL BLOSSOMING DRESSES AND FLAMBOYANT HANDSOME LOOKING TEXEDOS. THEY ILLUMINATED OUR HOUSE WITH FUN EASTER SPIRITS AND ACCOMPANIED THE BLUE SKY AND BRILLIANT SUNSHINE LIKE JOYFUL HOPPING EASTER BUNNIES..

My Her Art Display at the Her Arts Women’s Collection Exhibit, Cerimon House Portland, Oregon. Thank you for Coming.

My US Bank Painting Display plus my entry and Far Wall Exhibits at US Bank in Portland. Oregon

My Clackamas DMV Painting EXHIBIT Entry and Far Wall

I OIL PAINTINED MOTHER MARY’S PEACE ROSE FOR FATHER EDGAR AT THE GROTTO , ARTIST AND AUTHOR SHERRY M JOINER

Went to Pentecostal Mass at the Grotto today, and my teardrops have overturned harsh judgements coming from ill feelings of, injustice and, chaos, into love, harmony, serenity, humility, freedom and peace. Happy World Ocean Day. Paintings by Artist and Author Sherry M Joiner

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Resting on my canopy on the beach of Joao Pessoa, Brazil painting by Artist Sherry M Joiner

BLACK GOD PASSING TORCH TO VP KAMALA HARRIS by Artist, Sherry M Joiner

MY PORTRAIT I PAINTED OF GOVERNOR TIM WALZ. ONWARD TO YOUR VICE PRESIENTIAL VICTORY, YOU HAVE MADE ME PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, ARTIST SHERRY M. JOINER

SHRRY’S TV YOUTUBE INTERVIEW WITH ANN KASPER-SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER+PSCHOSIS+SHERRY GOES SANE WENT VIRAL THIS MONTH WITH 1O,OOO VIEWS. I AM ECSTATIC! THANKS TO EVERYONE!

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN US PRESIDENT PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S PORTRAIT, PAINTED BY ARTIST SHERRY M,JOINER

THE MESSENGER, PAINTED BY ARTIST SHERRY M JOINER, THANK YOU TO ALL GOOD FRIENDS, PRESIDENTS, VICE PRESIDENTS,GOVERNORS, SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES, POLICE, MILITARY, PHILOSOPHERS, LAWYERS. RELATIVES, SCIENTISTS, HEALERS, MEDICAL WORKERS, DOCTORS, NURSES, PRIESTS, AND PEOPLE OF THE CLOTH. OUR CHANNELS MAY CHANGE, AS WE BALANCE IN THE CYCLES OF LIFE BUT MY LOVE FOR YOU IS NEVER LOST. THANKS FOR WALKING A MILE WITH ME IN MY SHOES HEALING IN MY JOURNEY. I’M SENDING YOU JOY, SAFETY, AND EXTRA ABUNDANT HEALING POWER.

THANK YOU FOR COMING TO FIRST FRIDAY ARTS IN MILWAUKIE,OREGON THIS FRIDAY OCTOBER 4, 2024.IT WAS A GRAND TIME. MY DISPLAY INCLUDED. SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON, FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA, AND LIZ CHENEY., THANKS AGAIN, IT WAS AN HONOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH, ARTIST AND AUTHOR, SHERRY M,JOINER I’M AT MY BOOTH DISPLAYING MY PAINTINGS AND VIP PORTRAITS I PAINTED.

MY FAMILY AND I SCATTERED MY BRAZILIAN MOM MARIA’S ASHES ON THE VALLEY FOOT OF MT HOOD. MOM LOVED THE SENIOR FIELD TRIPS TO THE MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS,RIVERS, LAKES, OCEAN PARKS, SHE CALLED THE BIG SNOW-CAPPED GIANT MOUNTAIN SHE SAW STANDING IN FRONT OF HER. MT. HOOD THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD. WHEN SHE TOOK HER LIFE, AS A WAY OF HEALING, I PAINTED HER THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD.IN MEMORY OF HER, MARIA BEZERRA NOV.2, 1921-FEB 24. 1989

MY TALENTED LATE BRAZILIAN MOM, MARIA, HAD OIL PAINTED SISTERS MOUNTAIN ON HER SOUL REVIVAL JOURNEY TO THE SISTERS DURING MY BROTHER DOUG’S STRUGGLE WITH AIDS, SHE WAS VERY PERSPECTIVE. IT WAS THE AREA BY THE SISTERS WHERE WE SPREAD DOUG’S ASHES. MOM AND DOUG LEFT EACH OTHER ONE YER APART. OBRIGADS MAMA FOR YOUR LOVE AND GIFT OF GIVING. DEUS BLESS, MAY YOU REST IN PEACE.

MOM WAS PROUD OF ME HIGH SCHOOL PROM NIGHT.. SHE WALKED ME OVER TO MY PINK DRESSING ROOM TABLE, ARM CLUTCHED IN MY ELBOW WHERE ABOVE AND BESIDE TWO PORTRAITS OF KEAN’S CHILDREN HUNG. I LEARNED TO PAINT FROM THOSE PORTRAITS DURING THE STRESSES OF DYSFUNCTIONAL TEENAGE YEARS. AS I LOOKED INTO THE MIRROR MOM SAID, “YOUR EYES ARE THE MIRROR OF YOUR SOUL, SHERRY. LOOK INTO YOUR SOUL FOR THE ANSWER.” MOM WAS A GIFT.

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A HAPPY THOUGHT, MERRYCHRISTMAS AND FELIZ NATAL FROM ME AND SANTA. SHERRY M JOINER

NEED HELP COPING, DEALING WITH TAUMA, PAIN, LOSS AND DISASTER-EMERGENCY NUMBER 211′ OR 911

SUICIDE AWARENESS MONTH-NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE-1-800-273 TALK- and 988 lifeline is the quicker number

My Young Brazilian Aunt, Deanna in Brazil, my Mom ,Maria’s Sister, pen&ink pastel, oil portrait by Artist, Sherry M Joiner. September- Suicide Prevention Month, Suicide Hot line number 988. My LPN Brazilian mom, Maria had insights into mental and physical health, She enrolled me into roller skating in my youth when I had 2 bouts of polio, She wanted to help me to become productive and strong. She sewed me and my sister colorful costumes with Aunt Deanna to be proud and grateful skaters as we skated. Mom lived a life of alcoholism, endurance and sacrifice and sad challenges and passings in her family in Brazil. She was an extraordinary woman who faced abuse in her marriages yet gave me the beautiful gifts to live by and prevail from her soul, Near my 40th birthday she took her life but I was able to give her gift to others by writing her life story, Last Miracle for Maria. In this picture, I am the short one on the left. my sister, Diana on the right..

THE HEALING TIDE, JOAO PESSOA,BRAZIL, ORIGINAL AUTHENTIC PAINTING BY 1/2 BRAZILIAN ARTIST SHERRY M.JOINER

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI ,SPEAKER FOR THE PEOPLE ., SPEAKER FOR THE CHILDREN PORTRAIT PAINTED BY ARTIST SHERRY M JOINER

Joiner’s (Sherry Goes Sane, 2013) mother Maria, was a God send when Sherry was young. Maria, who was a World War II bride and Brazilian immigrant, created a safe place for Sherry in the thunderstorms, sitting her on her knees and saying prayers in English and Portuguese as they fought the dreadful monster in the sky together.

Last Miracle for Maria is an inspirational and vividly honest Biography  written from the heart. One will understand the deep love Sherry has Maria. It explores the life of a talented and kind woman, who became a License Practical Nurse in the States and struggled to help her children afflicted with childhood diseases.

When Sherry turned six years old her mother let alcohol and mental illness run her life. As a result, Sherry went through years of sadness and therapy seeking help from psychiatrists and counselors.

Maria was losing touch with reality and living on the edge with delusions and psychotic episodes. Sherry developed Schizoaffective Disorder and PTSD. Sherry takes readers on hers and Maria’s life and grief journey as she helps others with their own challenge of suicide. With Maria’s death to suicide, Sherry helps others in their darkest hour.

“It’s a must read for EVERYONE simply because, as Sherry’s story demonstrates with such clarity, we’re all affected by mental health issues every day, one way or the other.” – Gary Marschke (NAMI Clackamas)

North Clackamas County Member Inspires Readers click here httplinmedia.com/en/30-news/458430-372949-nami-clackamas-county-members-book-inspires-readers-

Full Newspaper Article about Last Miracle for Maria with reporter Ellen Spitaleri  click here:

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My mental condition of Schizoaffective Disorder involves two major mental illnesses: Bipolar Disorder and Paranoid Schizophrenia.

I am the first woman pioneer of Portland, Oregon, to write and publish a memoir on Schizoaffective Disorder. Delighted and fortunate to be  filmed in a documentary about my book Sherry Goes Sane, and the mental condition of Schizoaffective Disorder. BELOW IS THE LINK TO THE DOCUMENTARY. 

AK LEARNING DOCUMENTARY- SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER- WITH SHERRY JOINER AND DR. WARD T. SMITH-PSYCHIATRIST,  Produced by PROFESSOR ART KOHN for CENGAGE, a College Textbook Publisher     WATCH HERE- click on the blue link- 

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I helped to educate the public about schizoaffective disorder in an INTERVIEW BY ANN KASPER ON THE ADVOCATE FOR WELLNESS TELEVISION CHANNEL. A 30 MINUTE VIDEO-WATCH HERE:

A Newspaper Interview with Sherry The Clackamas Review has an interview with Sherry M. Joiner where she talks about Sherry Goes Sane and what it’s like to be a writer with the mental health disorder of bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, and schizoaffective disorder.

TODAY 6/30/22.  THE SWEARING IN OF OUR FIRST BLACK WOMAN JUDGE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON TO THE SUPREME COURT.- HER COURAGE, LOVE, UNDERSTANDING AND INTELLIGENCE IS DEEPLY APPRECIATED. WE WRAP OUR ARMS AROUND YOU, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JACKSON., BLACK LIVES MATTER, PAINTED by Sherry M Joiner MARCH TO WASHINGTON, AUGUST 28,2023 WE GO TOGETHER SWEETHEART.

CONGRATULATIONS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON. I PASS THE BATON TO YOU. JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG PORTRAIT BY SHERRY M, JOINER

KBOO COMMUNITY RADIO, Disability Awareness : “SHERRY GOES SANE.” A ‘Live’ interview by Grace Reed with Sherry M. Joiner. 7/27/2015

Disability Awareness on 07/27/15

 

Inside Mental Health Care: “Sherry Goes Sane” A Radio Interview with Sherry Joiner.

 

Sherry Goes Sane: Living A Life With Schizo-Affective Disorder is available through all major book retailers.  Here is a link to read more about Sherry Goes Sane on Amazon.com.

A former high school cheerleader, Sherry M. Joiner has been dealt her share of misfortune in life. In addition to childhood abuse at the hands of her alcoholic parents, she has also faced the suicide of her mother and watched her brother slowly die of AIDS. Then, for decades, she has also suffered from schizoaffective disorder, characterized by stressful and distorted thoughts, and has been through the associated suicide attempts and hospitalizations.

Sherry Goes Sane is her story, told from her point of view and written with vivid honesty. The candid memoir follows Sherry through the most traumatic moments of her life, as well as the most triumphant. In addition to painting a picture of the harrowing struggles faced by those with schizoaffective disorder, she also depicts years of working with her psychiatrist, Dr. Smith, as she heals from her childhood wounds and works toward living a normal life, with the help of therapy and prescribed medication.

More than simply informational, this powerful memoir is also meant to inspire. In her story, Sherry shares many of the quotes, song lyrics, and philosophies that have helped her in her healing process over the years, in hopes that other individuals who suffer from schizoaffective disorder or other mental illnesses might find them equally helpful. She serves as a positive example of someone who has overcome great odds to live a fulfilling, happy, and overall stable life, even when her mental illness threatened to hold her back forever.

The book is available as a trade paperback and as a Kindle ebook.

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ARTIST SHERRY M JOINER -BRINGING PEACE TO HOME

PRINCESS WARRIOR OVERLOOKING THE POND, PEOPLE’S CHOICE AND FIRST PLACE AWARD,MULTNOMAH COUNTY FAIR, PTLD,OR. PAINTED BY ARTIST SHERRY M JOINER

CURATIVA HEALING FLOWER, PAINTED BY ARTIST SHERRY M JOINER

• Thankyou Christmas Father
• Happy Christmas Mr. President
• Getting Back to Sewing
• Grateful for our leaders who give empathy and share compassion
• Campaning for Senator Wyden

ROSEBURG HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 67′-70′ REUNION CLASS OF 67′ PHOTO TAKEN BY ELIJAH FINLAY RIVER FORKS PARK, ROSEBURG OREGON, SHERRY STANDING JOINER, CHEERLEADER ATTENDED AND included in photo SEPT 16 2023

Thanks Sherry for sharing and opening up your heart to so many people  You are a Trailblazer in an unique, powerful, and inspirational way! This might be Women’s History Month but your life is “Experiencing and Living History of Creativity and Over-Coming Obstacles” and “Rising UP!” Helen Nolen

MY BROTHER DOUGLAS CRAWFORD ACTOR, AND NURSE, ADVOCATE FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY, PASSED BY AIDS, 1957-1990.