A Good Girl’s Guide begins with a woman who did everything right. She checked every box. Hit every milestone. Followed every rule she was handed. From the outside, her life looked enviable. From the inside, she was profoundly disconnected from herself—running on performance, perfectionism, and self-abandonment she mistook for strength.

Then grief arrived. Loud. Relentless. But along with it came a quiet kind of magic she couldn’t explain away. Her belief system cracked. The identity she built collapsed. And she was forced into a reckoning she never asked for—and a remembering she didn’t know was possible.

What follows is an unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply human account of loss, awakening, shadow, synchronicity, and the moment a carefully constructed life gives way to something truer. This is not a glow-up story. It’s a coming-home.

Part memoir and part roadmap, A Good Girl’s Guide explores how perfectionism, people-pleasing, over-functioning, and chronic over-achieving operate as survival strategies that quietly keep women stuck in survival mode. Drawing on lived experience, nervous system awareness, spiritual insight, and hard-earned clarity, the book reframes trauma not as a flaw to fix—but as an initiation.