I Felt Boxed In by My Beliefs Until I Learned It’s Okay to Change My Mind

Why I stopped talking about the memoir published at 24

Unboxing Good Enough. Photo by author.

It’s been just over four years since I published my memoir, Good Enough. I’ll never forget the day I unboxed my hard work and held the book in my hands for the very first time. I was 24 years old.

I’m 28 years old now and you’ll rarely hear me talk about Good Enough unless someone else mentions it first.

As we head into the new year, I thought I’d take a moment to share why.

Recently, it seems the topic has come up more than usual, and it’s made me consider both my past and present relationship to the book.

What happened? What changed?

This story is my attempt to explain just that.

The first thing I’ll say is Good Enough and many of its insights are based on Christian ideology, which today, I no longer live by… at least not in the traditional sense.

But when I was younger, my relationship with God gave me direction and changed the trajectory of my life. After choosing to become a Christian at age 14, I turned my grades around, chose better friends, and made wiser decisions.