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Securing a Client as a Regular Columnist: Carrie Knowles + Psychology Today

Securing a Client as a Regular Columnist: Carrie Knowles + Psychology Today

July 15, 2021January 31, 2023 Clairemont InternBlog, Case Studies, Clairemont Client News#psychology, Carrie Knowles, Clairemont Client, Client News, Psychology Today

Exploring the simplicity and psychology of everyday feats can be mesmerizing. Reading another perspective about life in a pandemic, work from home struggles, fashion trends and the wonders of aging is comforting and reassuring to many Psychology Today readers. 

Enter Clairemont client and award-winning author and writer Carrie Knowles. While Clairemont first pitched Carrie as a resource, it was Carrie’s talent and expertise that secured her as a regular columnist for Psychology Today where she explores all these topics and more in her column: “Shifting Forward: A Wanderer’s Musings.” As of today, Carrie has written 47 columns for Psychology Today. 

Carrie is passionate about living as a creative person and sees the world in a way that “creativity should have no boundaries and dreams no fences.” She has published four novels, dozens of short stories and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. 

Her most recent novel, A Musical Affair, is about divorce, deception, affairs, expensive secrets, long overdue forgiveness, the power of beautiful music. The Inevitable Past, Carrie writes the unknown story of her long-lost grandmother who died from trauma during the childbirth of Carrie’s father. With few clues, Carrie crafts the story of her grandmother’s life and creates a relationship between grandmother and granddaughter from beyond the grave. The idea of an inevitable past is supported by science as epigenetics can show how trauma from ancestors has the potential to build an additional layer of information onto DNA.  

Complete list of Carrie’s Psychology Today columns:

  1. Please…Don’t Hang Up! 
  2. It’s More Complicated Than Just Taking Off Your Mask 
  3. How to Upscale Your Downsizing? Take Your Memories Along
  4. What Do You Want to Do for the Rest of Your Life?
  5. Company in the Time of Covid Vaccination
  6. Who Writes the Fashion Rules? Better Yet, Why Do We Care?
  7. What’s Your Breaking Point? I Found Mine While Waiting on Hold
  8. Give Yourself a Medal
  9. A Moment of Sanity Brought to You by Hygge
  10. How Can I Help?
  11. The Opposite of Isolation Is Connection, Grab It! Share It!
  12. Don’t Be Silenced by the Clatter and the Chaos. Resist.
  13. Dear 2020: You Had Me at Stressed and Root-Bound
  14. Are Powerful Ancestors Hiding In Your DNA?
  15. Out of the #WestWing and Into the #FAB5
  16. The Truth About Working From Home
  17. Can Playing a Game Prepare Us for What’s Next?
  18. Looking for a Little Leavening in a Quarantined World
  19. #DieForTheDow? Not Me 
  20. This Is What Now Looks Like 
  21. What’s Hiding in Your Closet? 
  22. F.L.Y.! First Love Yourself
  23. Tired Of Multi-Tasking? Why Not Give Life-Guarding A Try?
  24. What Does Pride Have to Do with It? Everything.
  25. Making Room for Growth in Your Winter Garden Winter
  26. Are You Ready? Could You Start Over?
  27. It’s Time to Come Clean: Part Two
  28. Maybe It’s Time To Jump Off The Sinking Chaos Ship. 
  29. It’s Time To Come Clean! 
  30. How’s Your Inner Frankenstein Doing?
  31. Can Someone Steal Your Joy?
  32. Cat Lessons
  33. If You Have The Privilege Of Being Seventy, Don’t Waste It!
  34. Would Frances McDormand Even Care If Her Shirt Was Wrinkled?
  35. The Wall
  36. How to Enrich Your Life by Sitting Still and Daydreaming
  37. Quit Waiting for That Special Day to Arrive
  38. Forget Your Parachute… What Color Is Your Hair?
  39. Drum Roll…Please!
  40. Who Needs the Grinch? Alzheimer’s Stole My Christmas!
  41. The Great Judeo-Christian Bakeoff!
  42. Could You Travel With Less and Enjoy the Journey More?
  43. The Rules of Badminton 
  44. Art As an Act of Memory
  45. Perfection Only Lasts a Fleeting Summer Moment
  46. On Purpose 
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Raleigh Legend Debuts Play

Raleigh Legend Debuts Play

May 9, 2019January 31, 2023 Cherith AndesBlog, Clairemont Client News, In Our CommunityBurning Coal Theatre, Carrie Knowles, event marketing, event PR, Raleigh Theatre, Women's Theatre Festival

Curtain up, spotlight on and enter stage right … a legend in the Triangle arts scene.

2014 Piedmont Laureate Carrie Knowles has no small resume when it comes to literature and the arts. Carrie founded the Boylan Heights ArtWalk, directed the Cross Currents Chamber Music and Arts Festival and provided board leadership for the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild, Burning Coal Theater and the United Arts Council. Let’s not forget her 45-year literary career, during which Carrie penned dozens of stories, published five novels and earned more than 25 awards.

A Stage for Change: SIX

Carrie is nowhere near stopping. For her 70th birthday, Carrie is releasing “Black Tie Optional: 17 Stories.” But this is no ordinary book release.

SIX: A Play in One Act

Carrie transformed SIX, one of the short stories from “Black Tie Optional,” into a one-act play. She is partnering with Burning Coal Theater and Women’s Theater Festival to debut SIX as a special staged reading. SIX follows the story of a young women seeking meaning and redemption after dark experiences — an evocative tale that inspires us to live life without regrets.

The premiere of SIX will serve as a fundraiser for Women’s Theater Festival, providing critical scholarships for 10 young actors/writers/directors to develop their talents and craft new work at the 2019 Women’s Theatre Festival.

Date: Sunday, May 26, 2019, 3 p.m.
Location: Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk Street Raleigh
RSVP: Here!

https://www.facebook.com/CarrieJKnowles/videos/332956537257430/

A Place for a Party

And what’s a show without a little afterparty? Carrie also invites guests to join her and the cast in the lobby afterward for cake and bubbly to celebrate her 70th birthday!

The event is free with a suggested $5 donation to benefit the Women’s Theatre Festival Scholarship Fun. “Black Tie Optional: 17 Stories” will be available for purchase (and autograph!) with 40 percent of the proceeds benefitting the Women’s Theatre Festival.

Join us to enjoy a show, cake and bubbly! Space is limited, so reserve your spot now!

RSVP for SIX!
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A Garden Wall in Provence

A Garden Wall in Provence

August 16, 2018January 31, 2023 Clairemont InternBlog, Clairemont Client News, Public RelationsA Garden Wall in Provence, book reviews, Carrie Knowles, Raleigh authors, Raleigh PR AgencyLeave a Comment on A Garden Wall in Provence

“A Garden Wall in Provence” by Carrie Knowles is a comfortable, light-hearted read of 100 pages. Staged in a nook of Avignon, France, the novel unwinds the tale of Monique and her mother, Madame Reynaud. Monique was crippled by a violent wind known as the “mistral” at the young age of 10 years, and limited by her physical challenges, she has lived with her family since childhood. Monique and her mother treasure an exceptionally close relationship, a bond further strengthened after her father’s passing several years ago. This book chronicles the intertwined lives of Monique and Madame Reynaud over the course of the week leading up to Monique’s 30th birthday.

These women encounter obstacles people pray they’ll never have to face, such as physical weakness and the loss of a loved one. All the while Monique has begged her mother to allow her to explore employment, a request Madame Reynaud refuses year after year. Protective of her injured daughter, Madame Reynaud yearns to shelter Monique from any additional pain beyond what she already endures. Madame Reynaud not only serves as the caregiver for her daughter but also generously tends to her neighbors and friends on a daily basis.

In the week leading up to Monique’s birthday, “A Garden Wall in Provence” explores friendship, empowerment, self-awareness, love and most importantly, the depth of family bonds. Monique isn’t the only one in the family who finds joy on her birthday!

I recommend this book to anyone looking for a relaxing, calming read. In addition to a warming and captivating storyline, you’ll be treated with a few mouthwatering French bread recipes at the end!

We’re excited to be working with client Carrie Knowles, a widely published author, multi-media artist, international traveler and the 2014 Piedmont Laureate. Stay tuned for our future adventures with Carrie!

Written by Clairemont intern, Kennedy Norton, a fashion blogger and senior at North Carolina State University.

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