Good to Me: A Roadmap to Personal Peace and Power In Hard Times

by Shannon Curtis

How will empathetic people survive the troubles of this time? How do we rescue our overburdened spirits from overlapping disasters such as rising fascism and climate collapse? And from where can we summon the power to heal ourselves, our communities, and the planet? These are the animating questions behind singer, songwriter, and storyteller Shannon Curtis’s Good to Me— the companion book to Curtis’s 2022 studio album of the same title. Confronted in late 2021 with near-paralyzing anxiety brought about by the increasingly fraught state of the world, Curtis aimed her angst at her journal. Using tools she acquired in 12-step recovery, she set out on a quest for self-healing, with the intention of nurturing her personal sense of peace and agency in a world on fire. The result is a journey that takes Curtis’s audience through themes of identifying failed coping mechanisms, coming to terms with radical acceptance, learning to trust one’s inner truth, and reconnecting to serenity and power—even as the world continues to burn. Good to Me offers a roadmap for others to undertake this personal healing journey for themselves—no matter the specific nature of the difficulty they may be facing. The book features a series of essays drawn from Curtis’s personal journal, the prompts that gave rise to these journal entries, and interactive experiences with the songs she wrote along the way. This book is a roadmap and rallying cry for every person who knows that healing ourselves is the first step in healing the world.

149 pages, Paperback

Published December 14, 2022