empowerment Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/empowerment/ S.O. What! Sun, 06 Jul 2025 04:42:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://i0.wp.com/summerowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-Summer-Owens-S.O.-What.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 empowerment Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/empowerment/ 32 32 152051023 From Pain to Power: 15 Years After My Memoir, Here’s What Confidence and Resilience Created https://summerowens.com/from-pain-to-power-15-years-after-my-memoir-heres-what-confidence-and-resilience-created/ https://summerowens.com/from-pain-to-power-15-years-after-my-memoir-heres-what-confidence-and-resilience-created/#respond Sun, 06 Jul 2025 04:42:14 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=24247 The number 15 has defined two of the biggest turning points in my life. I was 15 when I became a mother—unprepared, afraid, but determined.And my son was 15 when I published my memoir—an unfiltered story of my journey, my mistakes, and my fight to become the woman and mother I wanted to be. Now, […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/from-pain-to-power-15-years-after-my-memoir-heres-what-confidence-and-resilience-created/feed/ 0 24247 Love Yourself This Valentine’s Day: A Journey of Self-Love Through Past Experiences https://summerowens.com/happyvalentinesdayloveyourself/ https://summerowens.com/happyvalentinesdayloveyourself/#respond Fri, 14 Feb 2025 02:59:23 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=24048 Happy Valentine’s Day—a day filled with hearts, chocolates, and grand romantic gestures. For some, it’s a day of love and celebration. For others, it’s a reminder of relationships lost, love never found, or expectations that fell short. I’ve lived through both extremes. I’ve had Valentine’s Days that made me feel cherished, and others that left […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/happyvalentinesdayloveyourself/feed/ 0 24048 Embracing Legacy and Resilience: How to Honor Legacy and Foster Resilience Through Symbolic Actions https://summerowens.com/embracing-legacy-and-resilience-how-to-honor-legacy-and-foster-resilience/ https://summerowens.com/embracing-legacy-and-resilience-how-to-honor-legacy-and-foster-resilience/#respond Mon, 13 May 2024 23:43:21 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=23764 I’m not sure how I came to the realization of the importance of embracing legacy and resilience, but I have learned to love the power in journies of those who have come before me. Especially, because I am a black woman, I appreciate and honor the legacy of black women. Last month I struggled through […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/embracing-legacy-and-resilience-how-to-honor-legacy-and-foster-resilience/feed/ 0 23764 10 Ways to Use the Life After Birth book to Help Teen Moms https://summerowens.com/help-teen-moms/ https://summerowens.com/help-teen-moms/#respond Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:37:13 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=23713 When I published my memoir, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, my number one goal was to help teen moms. I ultimately created a powerful, trauma-informed curriculum that promoted academic excellence and social and emotional development. Before I created the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/help-teen-moms/feed/ 0 23713 Building Resilience Through Unshakable Confidence: A Journey of Self-Discovery https://summerowens.com/building-resilience-through-unshakable-confidence-a-journey-of-self-discovery/ https://summerowens.com/building-resilience-through-unshakable-confidence-a-journey-of-self-discovery/#respond Sun, 03 Sep 2023 21:17:09 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=23500 Over a decade ago when I began speaking on resilience, the topic of confidence and ways to build confidence were always on my mind. I learned early on that for me, believe I could do something, was essential to me pushing through to make it happen…especially when it was hard. Really hard.  So I wanted […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/building-resilience-through-unshakable-confidence-a-journey-of-self-discovery/feed/ 0 23500 Collaborating. Not Competing. Women Celebrating Women. https://summerowens.com/collaborating-not-competing-women-celebrating-women/ https://summerowens.com/collaborating-not-competing-women-celebrating-women/#respond Tue, 04 Apr 2017 02:11:12 +0000 https://summerowens.wordpress.com/?p=3116 I am a woman, hear me roar. Women are strong when we want to be weak. We laugh when we want to cry. Sometimes we cry (or even laugh) when we want to run away. We are mothers, wives, sisters, and friends. Also, we are caregivers to our children, our parents, and our spouses. And […]

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