Breaking Good: From Good Girl to Good Girl Gone

All her life, Beth Stanfield just wanted to be good. She wanted to do good, produce good, and prove that she is good. And for more than forty years, she did it. She nailed the job of good. And on the outside, her life looked better than good. It looked... great. She was a successful attorney, a wife, and a mother to two precious boys.

But in all those years, she never asked the most important questions. Questions like: “What is good?” and “Who defines it?” Does a life oriented around someone else’s definition of good make you or break you?

Breaking Good explores the inherent tension of being a woman, a wife, a mother, and a professional in a world that celebrates breaking yourself to be good. It tells the inside story of what happens when you orient your entire existence around outside definitions, expectations, and obligations, and then, Breaking Good flips the script. It draws the reader into a profound experience of transformation from living a life made for you by others to a life made by no one other than yourself.

But more than anything, Breaking Good is an invitation. It invites the reader into the possibility of a magical, luminous future that awaits when “good” is gone and only truth remains.