The Lipstick Gospel
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Your life can look like so much fun—and still feel nothing like you hoped it would.
I know, because mine did.
The Lipstick Gospel is my memoir about a broken heart, a wicked hangover, and packing my bags for Spain because I couldn’t keep doing life the way I’d been doing it.
What followed involved two best friends, piles of pasta, a pub-crawl T-shirt in the Sistine Chapel, and getting to know a God I’d been pretty sure I wanted nothing to do with.
It’s an honest story about finding friendship, faith, and a way forward when the life you thought you wanted falls apart.
My first book—the story that started it all.
The Lipstick Gospel follows my journey from a college breakup and a life that looked better than it felt to studying abroad in Spain, traveling through Europe with my best friends, and unexpected adventures in Costa Rica and Ghana.
Along the way, I write honestly about heartbreak, comparison, drinking, sex, friendship, and getting to know God when Christianity was the last thing I thought would fit me.
This is a memoir, told in 12 chapters. It’s a story to curl up with, rather than a devotional or guided journal with exercises to complete.
You don’t need to have read any of my other books to start here.
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I thought I had the life I wanted. So why did I feel like this?
I was a journalism major, at the top of my class, in the best sorority on campus, going to all the best parties.
And I was miserable.
I had friends, but I didn’t feel safe being myself around them. I was surrounded by beautiful women and spent most of my time wishing I could be one of them. And the guy I thought I’d marry had broken my heart.
I kept trying to fix it. A better outfit. Another night out. Enough attention from someone new to make me forget who I was missing.
None of it was working.
So I packed my bags for Spain with my best friends Kelsey and Michelle. I wanted to come home happy again. I wanted to like myself. And I wanted to stop hurting.
Getting to know God was not on my itinerary. I was pretty sure Christianity meant giving up everything I loved about life.
But somewhere between the cobblestone streets, the long conversations over wine, and a very unexpected moment in the Sistine Chapel, that began to change.
The Lipstick Gospel is the story of how God met me in the messiest, most mistake-filled, most heartbroken season of my life—and how that season became the beginning of something I never knew to hope for.
If this sounds familiar…
You miss him—and you miss who you were before all of this happened. You want to believe you’ll feel like yourself again, but right now it’s hard to imagine.
You have people to go out with, but aren’t sure who you can fall apart with. You want friendships where you can stop trying so hard to be liked.
Everyone else seems comfortable being themselves. Meanwhile, you’re replaying what you said, comparing how you look, and wondering why you never feel good enough.
The things that are supposed to make you happy aren’t working. Your life looks good from the outside. You wish it felt that way, too.
You’re curious about God, but don’t see yourself in the version of Christianity you’ve been shown. Does faith have room for your questions, your personality, and the things you love?
You need to believe this isn’t how the rest of your life is going to feel. That there are still friendships, adventures, and good things ahead you haven’t met yet.
I wrote this book because I’d been there. And when things began to change, I wanted to turn around and tell you what I found.
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The Lipstick Gospel
Your life can look like so much fun—and still feel nothing like you hoped it would.
I know, because mine did.
The Lipstick Gospel is my memoir about a broken heart, a wicked hangover, and packing my bags for Spain because I couldn’t keep doing life the way I’d been doing it.
What followed involved two best friends, piles of pasta, a pub-crawl T-shirt in the Sistine Chapel, and getting to know a God I’d been pretty sure I wanted nothing to do with.
It’s an honest story about finding friendship, faith, and a way forward when the life you thought you wanted falls apart.
If you want to go a little deeper
For when you finish the story and think, I want a relationship with God like that. But what do I do next? These 90 daily readings will help you start talking to Him honestly and connect your faith with your everyday life.
For the conversations you want to have with God but don’t quite know how to start. Guided prompts to help you talk to Him about your actual life—the hopes, the worries, and the things you haven’t said out loud yet.
For when you want to meet your person, but don’t want to spend your whole single life waiting. A 100-day prayer journal to help you bring that longing to God while building a life you love right now.