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10 Lessons it Took Me 37 Years to Learn

However, in the last few years, I have made deliberate efforts to celebrate myself. My life.
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Make Your Life Count: One Weekend, Two Funerals, and Three Things I Learned

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…
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Pictures from the Healthy Lifestyles Workshop for Teen Moms

Pictures from the Healthy Lifestyles Workshop for Teen Moms!   ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ I'm Summer Owens, and my passion is helping youth and young…

Impacting Lives- Inside and Out

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.
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Everything Comes Full Circle

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…
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Use Your Refund to Get Ahead

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…
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Love Yourself

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…