Searching for Successful & Healthy Single Moms!

The next two books in The Successful Single Mom book series are underway: The Successful Single Mom Gets Rich! and The Successful Single Mom Gets Fit! with release dates of late 2011 and early 2012.

I'm searching for:

• Single moms who became very successful after they became single moms*, and
• Single moms who practice self-care by exercising, making positive food choices and keeping themselves at or near the top of the list.

If you are one of these fantastic single moms, I want to speak with you and hear your inspiring story because other single moms need to hear about you! Please contact me at Honoree (at) CoachHonoree (dot) com or leave a comment below with your contact information.

Interviews are happening now!

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Honorée has dedicated her life to being a positive force for good. She writes personal and professional growth and development books, and The Successful Single Mom book series. As an executive coach and corporate trainer, she turns service providers into rainmakers, average producers into rock-stars, and dreams into reality. For more information on how she can specifically help you or your organization, click here.

Dear Single Mom, You're amazing!

Dear Single Mom:

Being a single mom can be the best thing in the world! I know it doesn't always seem like it.

Single moms have long had a stigma around them. I can't count the number of times I heard, "awww, you're a single mom." Then I got a hug or a look of pity. But I always actually thought that was B.S. 

I believe this: Single moms are rock stars! The real truth is that you are fantastic! amazing! wonderful! The longer you're a single mom, the better it can get. Your kids don't need an immaculate house or a perfectly cooked dinner. What they need is you, with a smile on your face, lovin' on them every chance you can get.

You're doing the hardest job ever and you're making it look easy. You're keeping the lights on, the clothes clean, making breakfast, lunch and dinner, buying groceries, cleaning the house, helping with the homework, doing great at your job. Look at all you do!! You're amazing!

My wish for you is that you realize how great you are, how great your kids are, what the lessons are you're meant to get from being a single mom. Then, keep doing what you're doing! While you're at it, roll up your sleeves and get busy creating your dream life (or expanding the dream life you're living).

The best is yet to come!

To your best success, Honorée

Honorée has dedicated her life to being a positive force for good. She writes personal and professional growth and development books, and The Successful Single Mom book series. As an executive coach and corporate trainer, she turns service providers into rainmakers, average producers into rock-stars, and dreams into reality. For more information on how she can specifically help you or your organization, click here.

Sample Sunday: The Successful Single Mom

Following is an excerpt from The Successful Single Mom book 

Chapter One: Oh Shit Day! The Day that Turned Your Lives Upside Down

This day could have been yesterday, or perhaps it was ten years ago. The day you became a single mom is, without question, one of the hardest days of your life. This is the day many women have hoped for, regardless whether they come from an abusive, hopeless or simply dissatisfying situation, and yet dread at the same time. There’s a chance you will have freedom: the opportunity to turn your life around and make it the way you want it … then there’s the reality check: how is it possible to get everything done and retain your sanity? Pay the bills? Raise the children?

My daughter went from being a happy, normal two-year-old one day, to being a clingy, needy, demanding, temper-tantrum throwing Tasmanian devil the next. She seemed to sense how unsettled I was feeling and almost instantly began reacting and acting out based upon my mental state. On top of my pending divorce, I now had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach regarding how my daughter was going to be affected – short and long-term – by this new situation and the dark clouds over head. Here’s the kicker: I didn’t want to burden anyone with my feelings and insecurities, so sadly I kept most of them to myself. I didn’t ask for help – I didn’t know how. I didn’t know what was going to happen next and I wasn’t sure how to navigate what was coming.

Did you live that day in your mind a thousand times prior to it actually happening? Before I separated from my ex-husband, I used to think a lot (daydream is probably a better word) about what it would be like to be single again, have my freedom and raise my daughter on my own.

Then I would start to really think it through, and my mind filled with fear and uncertainty. I questioned and doubted. I came close to pushing the eject button for about two years before my actual Oh Shit! Day.