Five years ago, Beth Stanfield was a successful attorney in the prime of her career. Not only was she an exceptional lawyer, she was a good mother to her two boys, a good wife, good daughter, good sister, good church goer, and good friend.

And from the outside, everything looked . . . great.

Except there was that one thing . . .

The secret black thing that made her life possible. 

The thing that was killing her. 

In 2019, something happened that changed everything. It marked the death of Beth’s quest to prove her goodness and the birth of her unlived life.

Told from a unique perspective that is both 100% real and 100% magic, 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 and orienting your entire existence around external beliefs, expectations, and forces. But then, Breaking Good flips the script; it draws the reader into a profound experience of transformation and describes how Beth went from almost dying to living, dreaming, writing, speaking, and crashing into a luminous future she never dreamed possible.

But more than anything, Breaking Good is an invitation. It invites the reader into the possibility of a breathtakingly beautiful reality that awaits when “good” is gone and the truth alone remains.