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Back to Shameless is an essay collection about letting go of fear to step more fully into ourselves.

I see this is a homecoming, rather than a new frontier.

To me, authenticity feels childlike. It’s getting back to the place before outside influence made us malleable.

It’s the tutu over the jeans.

The juice-moustached belly laugh.

The “I wanna be a singer, a horse doctor, and have a house full of cats!”

It’s the untainted belief that we can do anything.

As adults, we get bogged down by unavoidable fear and responsibility. We have to toe a more delicate, thoughtful line than when we were three-foot and feral.

However, this doesn’t excuse us from pursuing the high-impact, exaggerated versions of ourselves.

Back to Shameless is an honest, funny, and hopeful account of becoming the adults our kid selves would be proud of.

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Become the person your kid-self would be proud of—before tight bras and taxes veered you off course.

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