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Essays on truth, boundaries, motherhood, friendship, relationships, power, and reinvention.

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 Start with the essays most women read first. Honest, clarifying, and unflinching.
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MOST SHARED 
ESSAYS
 The pieces readers return to, share, and send to the women they love. Essay-topic clusters: high road.
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THE MOTHERHOOD SERIES
Motherhood & self-erasure on love, loss, guilt, identity, the truth no one talks about out loud.
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The Truth About Being “Too Much”

Why saying less is not the answer, saying the truth is. →

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MIDLIFE 
REINVENTION
 On becoming who you are without apology. Niceness vs kindness
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Motherhood Is Not
Self-Abandonment

You can be devoted to your children
without disappearing. →

Resentment is a Symptom,
Not the Problem

The real issue is the truth,
that went unsaid. →

Reinvention Doesn’t
Look Like a Crisis

Sometimes it looks like a quiet,
irreversible choice. →

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FRIENDSHIP
 The beauty, the betrayal, and the conversations we avoid. Gossip & female friendships. Midlife friendship shifts.
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BOUNDARIES
For the woman who is done abandoning herself to keep the peace but builds resentment in relationships.
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You Can Love Someone and Still Say No

Boundaries are not rejection.
They are respect. →

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The Conversations
We Keep Postponing

What changes when we finally
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Conversations
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Pirie's books offer real stories, honest insights, and practical tools to help you navigate life's transitions and create your next chapter with clarity and courage.

30 Stories of People Who Reinvented Themselves

Former TV host and now life empowerment coach Pirie Jones Grossman interviewed 30 people whose inspirational stories of reinvention reveal struggle, strength, survival, and success.

Each story uncovers their why and how of reinvention while illustrating their journey straddled by personal and professional

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How To Create Your Next:
5 Activator Steps For Reinvention

Age is no longer seen as a burden, but as an asset. Women have the experience and hard-won wisdom and are no longer willing to consider themselves too old to dream.

When we approach 50, or specific timelines in our lives, such as a divorce, a career change, or becoming an empty-nester, how we are seen in the world and how we see ourselves change.

Some call it women in midlife crisis, but is that true? A crisis. I like to call it a reinvention.

Learn the 5 activator steps for reinvention in my workbook.

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“One conversation can change everything.”
Especially the one you keep rehearsing but haven’t said

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