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Celebrating Grandparents Day: How I Turned Grief Into Something Grief On My Grandparents Day First Without My Grandmas
This Grandparents Day is bittersweet for me. It's the first one without my grandmothers, Agnes Idella “Dorothy” Jones Owens and Ocie Lee Woods Williams, who both transitioned this year. They were two of the strongest, wisest women…

100 Lessons My Centenarians Grandmas Taught Me
How do you deal with grief?
Well, when I lost my girls (both of my grandmothers) five days apart last month, I had to demonstrate what I teach and practice what I preach.
I had to say, "S.O. What!" and, "so NOW what?" to focus on ways…

10 Ways to Use the Life After Birth book to Help Teen Moms
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…

Building Resilience Through Unshakable Confidence: A Journey of Self-Discovery
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…

25 Life Takeaways from My 25th Anniversary Class Reunion
Last weekend I attended my 25th anniversary class reunion. Even typing 25th anniversary doesn't seem like it could possibly apply to me. It seems like it was just a couple of years ago that we got our green caps and gowns and excitedly walked…