With chocolate as the perfect metaphor for confidence, courage, and compassion, Be Empowered! Eat Chocolate with Breakfast offers a personal yet uniquely universal look at life and living. The author's original sayings inspire comfort, insight, and a gentle nudge toward personal growth. With beautifully illustrated pages, each reader feels personally encouraged to recognize her gifts, identify her goals, and trust her abilities. Body, mind, and spirit are urged to be flexible, strong and free. Women discover themselves in these motivational and comical pages of timeless wisdom and recognize that they are, and have always been, powerful. These witty and thought-provoking sayings began as e-mail messages of heart-felt encouragement written by the author to her daughter in college. So captivated by her mother's simple yet significant insight, the author's daughter convinced her to create a collection. The title was inspired by a chocolate Easter bunny and the author's memory of her mom saying, "No chocolate until after breakfast."

Jan Bethancourt received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and studied fine arts extensively at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. The first generation of Be Empowered! Eat Chocolate with Breakfast was created using a computer and Epson printer. Community enthusiasm let to commercial publishing of the title and speaking engagements on the substance of her book. In 2010 her home was destroyed by fire, and the second book in the Be Empowered! series is therefore aptly titled-Be Empowered! Don't Let Life Melt Your Chocolate.