You Were Never Meant to Carry Everything Alone

One week after watching her mother take her last breath, Lisa Najarian boards a plane to Santa Barbara for a girlfriends' getaway. She had been planning this trip for months: a beach house overlooking the Pacific, a fully-planned menu, an 80s playlist, and a Jeep with the top off. She needs distraction. She needs fun. She needs anything to keep her from focusing on her feelings.

A chance lunch encounter in the nearby town of Ojai sends the trip in an unexpected direction. An acquaintance joins them for lunch, sharing burdens she had been carrying alone. A new level of intimacy unlocks, and the conversation that unfolds invites them all to go deeper.

Secrets carried for years-some for decades-finally find a safe place to land. By the time Lisa flies home, she has traded a heavy load for a new lightness. A quiet sense of belonging becomes the seed for You Go Girl, a growing movement devoted to helping women unpack their emotional baggage through the power of girlfriendship.

Part memoir, part novel, and part personal development, Girl, Unpack That! will make you laugh, cry, and reach for your phone.