memoir Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/memoir/ 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 memoir Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/memoir/ 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 My First Mothers Day Without My Girls https://summerowens.com/my-first-mothers-day-without-my-girls/ https://summerowens.com/my-first-mothers-day-without-my-girls/#respond Sun, 12 May 2024 02:51:32 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=23758 Although some people see Mothers Day as a commerical holiday, I think it is a special day to be intentional about celebrating any and all mother-figures. But after nearly 45 years, today is my first Mothers Day without my girls, my grandmothers. Two special people who were played different roles in making it possible for […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/help-teen-moms/feed/ 0 23713 Building Hope Through Resilience https://summerowens.com/building-hope-through-resilience/ https://summerowens.com/building-hope-through-resilience/#respond Sun, 29 Oct 2023 10:00:11 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=23565 Have you ever felt hopeless like I sometimes have? Life, you know, it’s like this wild adventure with twists and turns, and sometimes, it feels like we’re navigating through a storm. But amidst it all, there’s hope – a resilient, enduring hope that lights up our path. Three years ago, I celebrated the 10th anniversary […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/building-hope-through-resilience/feed/ 0 23565 Persevere to the End https://summerowens.com/how-to-be-successful-in-life/ https://summerowens.com/how-to-be-successful-in-life/#respond Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:53 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=20045 Today as I celebrate my 42nd birthday, I also reflect on my 15th birthday when an incident that happened so fast changed everything about my life. And made me question if I would be successful. What I learned in my journey, 26 years after becoming a mother, is that to be successful in life you […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/how-to-be-successful-in-life/feed/ 0 20045 10 years later. 5 More Life Lessons from My Story https://summerowens.com/5-life-lessons-from-my-story/ https://summerowens.com/5-life-lessons-from-my-story/#respond Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:48 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=20041 Ten years ago, I shared my story and life lessons in my first book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother. I had no idea then what would happen when I told it. A new chapter in my life started back then. And as I celebrate an anniversary like […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/5-life-lessons-from-my-story/feed/ 0 20041 Single Moms: Keep Your Dreams Alive https://summerowens.com/keep-your-dreams-alive/ https://summerowens.com/keep-your-dreams-alive/#respond Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:55 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=20037 Single mothers out there, keep your dreams alive because God fulfills them. By the time I went to graduate school to study for my MBA, I had already achieved a lot in my career and life. Now, I wanted a relationship for myself and a father figure for my son. I had dated in high […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/keep-your-dreams-alive/feed/ 0 20037 Remember this when you feel like giving up https://summerowens.com/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/ https://summerowens.com/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/#respond Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:31 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=20031 Before finding out that I was pregnant, I had dreams. I wanted to go to college. I wanted to be successful. I wanted a career. Then at 15 I got pregnant by a guy I didn’t know and was soon a single, teenage mother. If you have found yourself in the same situation, you may […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/when-you-feel-like-giving-up/feed/ 0 20031 Exploring Relationships As A Single Parent https://summerowens.com/exploring-relationships-as-a-single-parent/ https://summerowens.com/exploring-relationships-as-a-single-parent/#respond Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:29 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=20027 At some point I was exploring relationships because I wanted my son to have a father figure in his life. I had been a teenage mother from the time I was 15-years old. I’d also been raising my son alone as a single mother for years. I wanted to have a boyfriend and had dated […]

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