For the first time in my life, I attended the homegoing services of two people in one weekend. One was for a woman who had lived a long, full life and the other…she was my age. Only thirty-six years old. In totally different ways but both were connected to my first book and both made […]
“Dreams Do Come True…Even the Ones You Didn’t Even Know You Had.”
Pictures from the Healthy Lifestyles Workshop for Teen Moms! ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ I’m Summer Owens, and my passion is helping youth and young adults realize success no matter what obstacles they face. As an international resilience and leadership keynote speaker, author, S.O. What! Success Coach, and creator of the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character […]
We closed with my signature S.O. What! Statement exercise. My heart was full when one participated answered my question of, “How did that feel?” with…
I feel light, like a burden has been lifted. I feel free.
Many times in life we wonder why certain things happen to us or why we meet certain people. And often, we don’t think twice about some events or some people. But one thing I have seen over and over again in my life is that… Everything comes full circle. My most recent examples happened this […]
This is an updated version of a post I wrote last year. As I hear about how people are using (or in some cases, wasting) their sometimes large income tax refunds. I felt compelled to share my story again about how I used tax time every year to make a huge difference in my life […]
If you read my last blog, then you read about my beautiful Valentine’s Day proposal. I really hate spoiling the story for anyone who hasn’t read my book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, but these two blog posts are in me and need to come out because […]
Ignoring me, he got on one knee and grabbed my left my hand fully removing the big chocolate candy I was about to complain about him taking. It was actually a black ring box. My mouth dropped, and my heart started to beat out of my chest.
…ignoring it, pretending it didn’t exist, thinking it wasn’t as bad as I already knew it was, thinking it would fix itself, or just moving on to the next thing.
