Name:	Peggy Grose
Email:	pgrose@austin.rr.com
Website:	www.loveandlemonpie.com
Fee:	Will negotiate; depends upon travel or not.
Topics Offered: A Talk Based on the memoir, Celebration, a Woman's Story of Courage, Endurance and Transcendence by Peggy S. Grose This is a story that almost any woman will want to hear. It's about how, as an adult, Peggy realized that she had continued the behaviors she had learned in childhood—self-sacrifice and silent suffering—and that, as a child, she knew, intuitively, that the importance of her existence was to make someone else look good. The story is about how she detached from her mother, how she saw her own part in creating the quality of her relationship with her husband, how she escaped the marriage and about the life she created, once she decided to celebrate a new beginning. Humor and tales of adventure, woven into the story, add color and lightheartedness to the presentation.
Peggy has a masters in communication from the University of Texas, is a licensed therapist, a seasoned speaker, an experienced counselor, a teacher, a group facilitator, and a workshop presenter. She has had considerable training and experience in sales. She grew up on a farm in southern Georgia, lived in Cuba, New England, Malaya and Singapore. This lady is the mother of four sons, and the grandmother of three grandsons and one granddaughter. She describes herself as affectionate, a people person, an adventurer, a baby freak, a chocoholic, and a good listener. She says that she has always been afraid that she'll miss something, that she tends to "want it all," and that she wants those around her to "have it all," too. She likes homemaking and decorating, entertaining company, cooking, dancing, swimming, camping, playing Scrabble® with her husband, writing, storytelling, and traveling afar. She reads and studies a lot. Peggy works in an outpatient, drug rehabilitation program and lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Jim Kilpatrick, who brings her DARK chocolate.