The Writing

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BECOMING HER.

Essays, books, and practical tools for women ready to live, love, and lead on their own terms.

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FEATURED COLLECTIONS

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 THE NICENESS TRAP™

Start with the essays most women read first. Honest, clarifying, and unflinching.

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CAREER & LEADERSHIP

 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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MARRIAGE & RELATIONSHIPS

For the woman who is done abandoning herself to keep the peace but builds resentment in relationships.

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FRIENDSHIP

 The beauty, the betrayal, and the conversations we avoid. Gossip & female friendships. Midlife friendship shifts.

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MIDLIFE REINVENTION

 On becoming who you are without apology. Niceness vs kindness

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LATEST ESSAYS

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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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Motherhood Is Not
Self-Abandonment

You can be devoted to your children
without disappearing. →

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You Can Love Someone and Still Say No

Boundaries are not rejection.
They are respect. →

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Resentment is a Symptom,
Not the Problem

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

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The Conversations
We Keep Postponing

What changes when we finally
say it out loud. →

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Reinvention Doesn’t
Look Like a Crisis

Sometimes it looks like a quiet,
irreversible choice. →

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.