About

The long way round to this work

I was in hair styling school in Warri when I started hearing the girls' stories. Not the styled version. The real one, about what was happening at home and in the houses near mine. I did not have language for it then. I just knew I could not unhear it. That is where this all started. Not in a clinic.

The volunteering came first, twenty years of it. Group homes, shelters, families in crisis, and then children in foster care. Hundreds of them, over more than a decade. Then two of those children became my daughters. Caring for them is why I went back to study behavior analysis, and then clinical mental health counseling. I wanted to actually understand what I had been doing by instinct for years. That turned out to be the most useful decision I have made.

I never left the other thing behind. I have a cosmetology license from two years of fashion school, a business degree with a fashion marketing focus, and a stretch in Paris chasing modeling that taught me more about resilience than it did about fashion. Beauty and seriousness are not opposites. Paying close attention to how a thing is made is the same skill in a garment and in a person. Behavior analysis is attention. So is styling.

Glam2Greatness is where those two halves stopped competing. Fashion, art and wellness together, alongside writing about regulation, boundaries and the patterns families repeat. I write from training and from experience, and I will not oversell either one. If something helped me, I will say so. If the research is thin, I will say that too.

Juliet Amor holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and a master's certificate in data analytics, with clinical mental health training and ABA coursework at UMass Global. She is accruing clinical hours toward Maryland LGPC licensure and BCBA certification, and has worked with children and families in foster care for over a decade, most recently as an Intake Analyst and Therapeutic Caregiver at the National Center for Children and Families. She is the author of the Intergenerational Healing Planner and the Self Guided Growth Journal.