I'm Not Fine. Thanks for Asking.: An Honest Guide to Midlife Freedom

Someone asks how you're doing. You say “fine.” You've been saying it for decades — efficient, automatic, and almost entirely untrue.

I'm Not Fine. Thanks for Asking. is the research-backed, unapologetically honest guide to middle age that women are taught to dread — the one research says might actually be the best of your life. The U-curve of life satisfaction bottoms out in the early forties and rises substantially after that, across cultures and income levels. Life coach Rachael Gass and Be Kind Lyfe founder Andie Herbert pair that science with the unfiltered, sometimes very funny truth of two women living every bit of it.

Inside, you'll find:
— The real research on why midlife brains aren't declining — they're better at emotional regulation and richer in the kind of wisdom that only comes from living.
— Honest chapters on perimenopause, caregiving for aging parents, career reinvention, motherhood and identity, friendship after forty, and the beauty standards designed to make you feel like you're disappearing.
— Six women — composites drawn from a decade of real coaching conversations — whose stories make the research land in your body, not just your head.
— Zero toxic positivity. No gratitude journaling as a cure-all. Just evidence, humor, and permission to stop performing “fine.”

This book is for you if:
— You're in your forties, fifties, or sixties and suspect there's more available to you than you've had time to notice.
— You're exhausted by the performance of having it all together.
— You want real information about your body, your relationships, and your sense of self — not platitudes.
— You're tired of self-help that assumes your life looks like everyone else's.

You don't have to be fine. You don't have to perform fine. And with this book, you don't have to figure any of it out alone.

Reserve your digital copy today for $0.99 — the price goes up to regular pricing on release day, September 15.

With kindness and absolutely zero judgment,
Rachael & Andie