It's Just Hair: 20 Essential Life Lessons

“This can’t be happening to me!” Yes, bad things do happen to good people. Perplexing or painful, personal or professional, life challenges stop us in our tracks, leaving us numb, breathless and frightened to our very core. The 20 essential life lessons in IT'S JUST HAIR will give you the strength and perspective to meet these challenges. Read them all at once, read them one at a time. Read them in moments of solitude, read them out loud with others. Read them as a battle cry, read them in a quiet whisper. These powerful lessons, delivered with honesty, courage and brilliant humor, are resources you or a loved one will reference time and again.

Judith Pearson's writing career began in a tree: a wonderful old maple in her parents' backyard, with a perfect branch on which to sit. It was there, as a teenager, that she first wrote her thoughts on current events and life in general. Now hundreds of thousands of words later, this Michigan native is still writing. A graduate of Michigan State University, Pearson has written nearly a hundred newspaper and magazine articles.

She has published three books. Two are biographies about ordinary people who exhibited extraordinary courage: BELLY OF THE BEAST: A POW's INSPIRING TRUE STORY OF FAITH, COURAGE AND SURVIVAL and WOLVES AT THE DOOR: THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICA'S GREATEST FEMALE SPY. The latter has been optioned for a movie.

The third, IT'S JUST HAIR: 20 ESSENTIAL LIFE LESSONS, was born from writing Pearson did while her own courage was tested. A newlywed with a son in Afghanistan, she traveled the journey through breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. It is designed to be a resource for anyone facing a life challenge.

The founder of Courage Concepts, an organization that cultivates courage in women and girls, Pearson provides workshops and keynotes for corporations and organizations. She and her husband divide their time between her idyllic little home town on the shores of Lake Michigan and Chicago. And she still climbs trees.