This isn't a book about how to make everyone love you. This is a book about how to love yourself enough to let the wrong ones leave. For every woman who made herself small to be loved, and then remembered she was never meant to fit.
For the ones who've been ghosted by the people they fed, misunderstood by the ones they loved most, and still chose grace over bitterness. For the curse breakers. The cycle enders. The scapegoats who became the truth tellers. The black sheep who were always the chosen ones. Pull Up Your Socks is the raw, unflinching truth about what happens when you finally start showing up as yourself, really yourself, not the palatable version, not the one who apologizes for taking up space, not the one who dims her light so others feel comfortable. In these pages, Maggie Mayne tells the stories nobody warns you about.
What happens when the people you poured into go silent the moment you start glowing. When your own teachings get twisted into weapons against you. When setting boundaries costs you relationships you thought would last forever. When your family tries to erase you for telling the truth. When the glow-up gets so lonely you wonder if choosing yourself was worth it.
This book names the things we' are not supposed to say out loud. Like the fact that sometimes the people who hurt us most are the ones we loved most. Like the fact that some relationships are meant to end, even when it breaks our hearts. Like the fact that choosing yourself isn't selfish, it's survival. With brutal honesty and fierce compassion, Maggie takes you through the dark edges as well. This is not a love and light, everything happens for a reason book. This is for the ones who are tired of pretending. If you're ready for the whole truth, including the parts that sting, you're in the right place.
You'll find permission to be loud. To take up space. To set boundaries without apology. To walk away from people who can't meet you at your new level. To stop bleeding for people who wouldn't even hand you a bandage. You'll find hope, because even though the glow-up gets lonely, the real ones do show up. Eventually. The ones who can celebrate your expansion instead of resenting it. The ones who meet you at your new frequency. The ones who were always meant to walk beside you, not behind you.
This book won't tell you how to keep everyone happy. It won't teach you how to glow up without making anyone uncomfortable. It won't promise you a painless transformation.
It will tell you the truth. Sometimes the truth is the most healing thing we can offer each other.
Pull up your socks. Not because you're falling apart. Not because you need to get it together. Pull them up because you're about to walk, and you can't walk with your socks around your ankles.
CONTENT NOTE:
This book contains honest discussions of family dysfunction, abuse of systems (mental health, legal, child welfare), forced hospitalization, and the weaponization of institutions against truth-tellers. It addresses topics that may be difficult to comprehend for readers not experiencing similar situations. The author's approach prioritizes truth-telling over comfort, with practical survival strategies woven throughout.
