How to Get Your Grown Woman On: A Guide Through Preteen and Teenage Adolescence

By Dr. Crystal Morris-Newsom

How to Get Your Grown Woman On is a sassy, up-to-date guide for preteen to teenage girls. It teaches them how to cope with the issues facing them today. This book provides clear-cut instructions on how a young lady should care for her body inside and out as well as how to treat others while still promoting self-love. This book allows young ladies to write in a journal setting to express how they are feeling about certain topics, such as dating, sex, drugs, and suicide. Moreover, the book provides a mental map of situations they may go through and offers the tools to get past any storms that may come into their lives. Overall, girls will understand that there is a way to overcome all circumstances and they are not alone. All women, young and old, have faced similar challenges and will move forward successfully in life to become the beautiful queens they are destined to be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984561046

Dr. Crystal Morris-Newsom

Dr. Crystal R. Morris-Newsom was born and raised on the Southside of Phoenix, Arizona which is where she currently resides with her husband, two sons, and two daughters. She loves reading, writing, and teaching. She graduated from Grand Canyon University with a BS in Human Biology and a minor in Behavioral Science. She graduated from the University of Phoenix with an MBA. Last, she graduated from Grand Canyon University with a Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership. Dr. Newsom is a licensed and practicing real estate broker in Phoenix under her grandfather Obadiah Jackson Sr. and also teaches as a college professor. After having her first daughter she decided it was time to bring her passion regarding the plight of pre-teen to teenage girls into fruition. Her goal is to provide personal insight to as many girls as possible in hopes that they can see that they are not alone and encourage them to push forward. Sometimes it takes hearing something from someone else to make you understand the reality of what is being said. Her future aspiration is to create a mentoring program for girls to challenge them to think before they act and care for themselves inside and outside. She is dedicated to the encouragement of positive mental development and self-love which is lacking in today’s society. Please follow her on Instagram: @realestatewoman365 Find her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crystal.morrisnewsom

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Copyright © 2018 by Dr. Crystal Morris-Newsom.

ISBN:                Softcover                978-1-9845-6105-3

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Rev. date: 11/02/2018

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Contents

Purpose

Chapter One: Image

Chapter Two: Hygiene

Chapter Three: Familial Relationships

Chapter Four: Dating

Chapter Five: Gossip

Chapter Six: Thoughts of Suicide

Chapter Seven: Alcoholism and Drugs

Last Word from the Author

References

About the Author

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to my two beautiful daughters Crystiana and Cryshelle and to all of the young ladies past, present, and future that can benefit from it. May your lives be blessed and full of all the hope and promise it should.

Purpose

T HE PURPOSE OF this book is to provide a foundation for young girls beginning their journey into womanhood and assist them in understanding the concepts of female development. This book will hopefully support young girls as they experience challenges inside and outside of school. Looking back as a young girl there were so many obstacles that did not support my growth whether it was boys, teachers, or even others girls. We hope this book will help open doors for young girls to connect with their inner thoughts, emotions, feelings, sexual misunderstandings and overall self.

The direction I have chosen for this book is to gradually promote wholeness through the process of imaging, and concepts of what a grown woman is. Does it make a girl grown if she has sex, does drugs, smokes cigarettes, or drinks alcohol? Does it make us cool if we disrespect our parents, wear revealing clothes, or curse? The way we carry ourselves as women can cloudy the true image of being grown. We have learned through extensive years of study and real life experiences that all young girls are trying to discover is who, what, how, where and why she is here. This book will act as a narrator for introducing young girls to a safer and more productive manner in getting their grown woman on. Again these are my personal experiences and opinions so please don’t be offended but open your minds and hearts to learn from someone who has experienced many of the things you are going through.

To my young ladies reading this book, use it as you journey through junior high and high school to reflect on what is happening in your life. This journal can help you through some tough times as a teenage girl, so please take the time to write down your thoughts and inner most feelings. After you finish the book, go back over what you have written. You will probably be surprised by what you wrote and it will hopefully help you to learn more about who you are as a young lady and who you want to be. Please understand that this book cannot replace counseling or other professional assistance that you may need. Use this book as another tool in your tool belt; as a diary or journal. Each day the Lord wakes us up is a new day to make a change. It is never too late!

Image

W HEN YOU LOOK at yourself, who do you see? Do you see a beautiful young girl with a friendly smile, pretty hair, and a cute laugh? Do you see a sexy girl, who can manipulate all of the boys to do what you want them to do? Do you see a tough chick