Cherie Burton resides with her husband Jeff in Utah and is the stay-at-home mother of three children. Although her roles at home are her greatest treasure and highest priority, she has been involved in outreach to women for the past 13 years. She has a passion for self-education, public speaking, writing, and mentoring females in the discovery of their personal life missions and "divine femininity."

After serving an 18-month, full-time mission for her church, she graduated with Honors from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology and a Minor Degree in Sociology. Upon graduating, Cherie began going into public schools and juvenile detention centers to do presentations on adolescent relationships. She has held group therapist positions at a psychiatric hospital, a residential facility for teen boys, and a teen wilderness survival program. In 1997, Cherie began directing a support group for girls who were involved in unplanned pregnancies and adoption. For 2 years she directed and produced the Junior Miss Scholarship Program in her area and presented a series of workshops for 16 and 17 year-old girls on Self-Esteem and Confidence.

Working with adolescent girls for many years alerted Cherie to the notion that reclaiming femininity and finding joy in womanhood starts at home…with these girls' mothers. Many of the teens she worked with who were struggling with self-esteem had mothers and grandmothers who likewise struggled…a vicious generational cycle. As a Life Coach and Motivational Speaker, Cherie communicates that all females can develop a healthy outlook on life and a deep, abiding confidence by self-educating with classical literature in their fields of interest and working with dynamic personal mentors who will inspire and motivate them. She is a believer in reclaiming the "lost feminine arts": Etiquette, Self-Presentation, Poise, Character Development, Leadership, Natural Beauty and Personal Mission Discovery. She proclaims, "Our culture devalues classic feminine virtues and creates role confusion in the lives of impressionable young women. By working with a personal mentor and receiving on-going training, a woman can discover her unique beauty and divine gifts. Her vision expands, her soul is empowered… and she rises to her own level of greatness."

A self-proclaimed "late bloomer," Cherie challenged herself to embark on a childhood dream and began competing in pageants as a wife and mother of young children. In 2004, with the social platform, "Inspiring Greatness in Girls," Cherie was crowned Mrs. Utah. Ironically, Cherie's own sister, Shawna - a wife and mother of five - was losing her own battle with self-esteem that same year. On April 29, 2005, three weeks before Cherie was to pass on her title as Mrs. Utah, Shawna committed suicide. In Cherie's words, "It changed everything." Devastated and grief-stricken, her fervor and passion for increasing self-awareness in women took on a more intense and personal meaning. In her book, Where Depression Ends and You Begin: 4 Passages to Discovery , she writes, "One rainy, blustery afternoon in May of 2005, less than a week after we buried her, I stood over Shawna's grave with a promise in my heart to be her voice. It was one of those self-defining moments, albeit the moment of my greatest heartbreak and sorrow. I knew a big part of my life's work would be to try and grasp what Shawna was suffering from and to bring instruments of prevention and enlightenment to others ."

In addition to working with a "handful" of clients in her Pageant and Life Coaching business, Cherie remains heavily involved in mental health advocacy work. Since her sister's suicide, she has given speeches on depression with the Utah Attorney General's Office, at black-tie galas, in churches, at the Mental Health Association in Utah's Suicide Prevention and Awareness Walk, and on television and radio. She was recently invited to sit on a State Suicide Prevention Council with the Utah Department of Human Services.

As the Facilitator of her new training program for women, Emergence: Training in the Origins and Manifestation of Feminine Power , Cherie focuses on giving women "permission" to follow their ambitions and pursue their righteous desires as they define their personal life missions and refine their "inner being" or "higher self." The emphasis of her message is not on the avoidance of depression or unhappiness, but on the active creation of joy and prosperity. Cherie states, "We can create anything, and I mean ANYTHING, that we desire. God wants for us what we want for ourselves." Cherie has been a regular co-host on TV and radio talk shows and has future plans to author more books for women and teens.

About Blue Rose Communications

The blue rose is one of the rarest flowers on the planet. The quest for refined breeding of this flower has become like a "Holy Grail" for rose breeders throughout the world. This is because roses are naturally "designed" to be pink. When scientists try to extract a gene from a flower whose petals are blue and inject it into a rose, the rose will fight to stay pink. The pH balance in the cells of a rose, when changed to become blue, will sometimes destroy the essence of that rose, changing all of its other functions and cells. It may have turned blue, but it is no longer a true rose.

By the same token, when a woman turns "blue," through depression and lack of passion, she is no longer her true self. Her mind, beauty, spirituality, and personality have been changed and altered - right down to the cells of her body. She naturally wants to be "pink"…to be centered, alive and beautiful. The "blue" is not right; not natural. It is not who she was designed to BE.

Blue Rose Communications is a company dedicated to preserving the livelihoods of men, women and children who have been "injected" with the foreign imbalances of depression. Cherie Burton, President and Founder of Blue Rose Communications, states, "This is a company whose mission is to remind a woman and her family of their natural, God-given states - their spiritual cores, alive in joy, passion and purpose."