Verna Lee Bowen

Verna Lee Bowen Published author and Empowerment Coach, working with women coaches in Vision Clarity and Life Design. A former accounting professional.

LIFE TRANSFORMATION COACH
Guiding midlife women to rise strong, overcome blocks, reclaim their voice, and create bold, heart-centered success in health, work, love, and life. Passionate student of life and personal evolution. Co-founder and interviewer of an online world summit; been a guest on radio talk shows, and been published in several magazines. Five signature coaching programs, delivered l

ive in person, in North and South America, as well as online:

Empowered Life - 5 Steps for Creating A Life You Love

Implement & Thrive - The 7 Pillars of Success

Empowered Relationships - The 5 Essential Ingredients (download page coming soon)

Empowerment Journaling - 6 Techniques for Eliciting Inner Wisdom (download page coming soon)

Design & Deliver A Killer Online Course - The Complete Basics

06/17/2026

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” -  Abraham Lincoln. 

Choosing happiness doesn’t mean denying pain, forcing yourself to ignore problems, or bypassing anything 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, for fear of it ruining happiness.

Making up your mind to be happy is more about 𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 of pain, problems, and unpleasant experiences, and then choosing to trust. Trust that you have (and always will have) the inner resources to combat, accept, or move through whatever life offers.

You have, and always will have at least two or the following:

- capacity to process and think things through
- skills you know not of
- resilience yet to be unearthed
- deeper faith than you realize
- professional assistance
- supportive friends or relatives
- the present moment where past trauma (or drama) and future potential disaster do not exist
- capacity to calm your nervous system by deep breathing
- choice to love
- ability to see your own contributions to the problems that perpetuate in your life
- capacity to change

06/07/2026

I still feel this. 💯

06/07/2026

Observation from Coaching and Life Itself.

The people who people like most are the ones who have little need to be liked. Their main aim is to be LOVE in the world.

Then, love returns to them a hundredfold.

And when that life is over, whether quiet, loud, little or big, it was a life well lived and will continue on in the lives of others it touched.

- Verna

“We’re all here for a good time, not a long time.”

06/05/2026

I came across a post that said, “𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺.”

06/03/2026

What makes people successful is doing something hard for a purpose greater than the obstacles that present themselves.

The biggest obstacles we will ever have to fight are not the external ones, but our own temptation to quit when confronted with them.

If it takes a lifetime to get this, you’ve won. You are not too late.

Go for it because, as a wise person once noted, your life is just that small dash between the date you arrive and the date you leave. ❤️

- Verna

05/27/2026

Back when confidence and authority were understood as overtly expressive, domineering, boisterous, life of the party, extrovert, HIGHLY VISIBLE, cocky, and possessing a lack of volume control . . . I thought I was doomed to never feel 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵. 😂

What a relief it was to learn that the traits listed above more accurately describe someone who LACKS real confidence.

Trying to be SEEN as confident is a far cry from embodying any great measure of real confidence.

Genuine confidence is evident in people who are grounded in ease with who they are, regardless of the opinions of others. This might mean quiet or vocal, serene or boisterous, introvert or extrovert.

I personally will never be the HIGHLY VISIBLE coach who is wildly popular online, because that's just not my cuppa tea.

I will always be one who loves truth, soul-honesty, growth, and overcoming the lower parts of the self. That will undoubtedly be boooriiing to some. Some days I will show up as "bubbly," as someone close recently described me, but other days I will appear reserved. Still other days I won't "show up" at all.

It's freeing to realize this truth: where one's confidence lies need not ever be measured by amount of public visibility, but by the quality of ease with self, others, and life itself. 🌷

Give us the gift of you. Be confidently loud, quiet, funny, serious, reflective, or whatever.

Nobody else can do YOU like you can. 🌟

05/27/2026

What would love, poise, and inner strength do in that situation?

Yes, THAT one.

The one you’re not sure how to respond to or even perceive.

The one that triggers you to speak in ways you’re sure to regret.

The one that leaves you feeling empty, small, or alone.

The one that causes confusion or anxious thoughts.

The one that tests your character.

The one that is actual crisis and you feel helpless and scared.

What would love, poise, and inner strength do?

05/26/2026

Finishing a lengthy project is like seeing clouds part and sun rays grace the earth after rain. Everything’s green and teeming with life. ☀️🌷

- Verna

05/25/2026

Ever use the same typo in a word so many times that you almost start thinking it’s the way that word is supposed to be spelled?

Snadwich.

I used to joke about this one by actually saying it that way. 😄

(Then I envisioned me in my 90s, requesting a “snadwich” for lunch at a seniors retirement center. So I stopped). 😁

05/24/2026

One down.
Three more to go. 🥳

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