Jean Marie Johnson

Writer

Jean Marie Johnson is the first to say that she entered this life “with an inquisitive mind, a mush-melon heart, a significant degree of sass and a passion for all things beautiful.” She secured her first full time summer job at the age of twelve as a babysitter, sold Avon and babysat throughout high school, won a scholarship to a commuter college and tutored and worked in the placement office for extra cash. In the ensuing decades, Jean Marie travelled extensively, both domestically, and abroad, supporting organizations in their quest to enhance the employee and customer experience.  Over time, she evolved as a writer, speaker and provocateur, channeling years of life experience to support women on their journeys to embrace and express the person they were born to be. While continuing her work as an organizational learning strategist and writer, Jean Marie also writes about the joys and challenges of cultivating an authentic, “perfectly-imperfect” life. Jean Marie holds a BA in Social Work and an MS in Human Resource Development and Counseling. In her spare time, she can be found walking, tending her herb garden, feeding her backyard birds, hunting for great finds and always cultivating the beauty and the raw authenticity around her.

You Put Your Foot Where?

  If there is one place where we never want to find our foot, it’s in our mouth. And yet we all do, at one time or another. We say

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Overcome Overthinking

When a relative by marriage suggested that I might be “overthinking things,” I felt hurt and a tad defensive: She’s judging me. And since when did deep and deliberate thinking

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Hone Your Mindfulness Skills

  As a kid, I developed the habit of chowing down my Wheaties while – ad nauseum – reading the back of the cereal box. In retrospect I understand that

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Manage Your Gerascophobia

  “My what?”  Okay, now that I have your attention, gerascophobia is a medical term that describes the fear of getting older. If you know someone with gerascophobia, you are

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Put Out the Welcome Mat

If your welcome mat is anything like mine, it gathered quite a bit of dust in 2020. That being the case, you may feel that you’ve acquired a little “rust”

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Articles By Jean Marie Johnson

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