Good stopped working. Here’s what happened next.
Beyond the Good Girl is an audio memoir podcast — one woman’s funny, honest stories about a lifetime of people-pleasing, and what she found on the other side.
If you’re an overthinker, a perfectionist, a people pleaser — and you’ve started to notice that it isn’t really working for you anymore — you’ve found the right place.
I’ve been noticing her for a while now. The thermostat set to someone else’s temperature. The wrong tape I’d rather itch from than ask to change. I know her well. And every week in my newsletter I tell you exactly what she’s been up to.
You’re not on your own in this.
Gillian Wray
When I was five I rode to school on my horse and tied him up outside while I went to class.
That never happened. But I daydreamed it so often it feels like it did. I’ve always told stories — I just never told them to anyone else. I thought it was self-indulgent. A secret to be ashamed of.
Probably because Miss Black wrote on my Primary Two report: Gillian has potential but is a daydreamer.
So I buckled up and became a good girl. Stories and poetry lived on the page, private and hidden.
Until I got cancer. And got brave.
I’m Gillian Wray — poet, storyteller, and the voice of Beyond the Good Girl.
