Who would you be if you stopped trying to be who everyone expected?

Be a good girl. Adjust a little. Don't disappoint anyone.

Between family expectations, society's rules, relationships, and dreams of our own, we sometimes forget who we were before the world told us who to be.

The Girl We Are Taught to Be is for every girl who has ever felt misunderstood, every woman who has made herself smaller to belong, and everyone learning that being kind doesn't mean abandoning yourself.

It is a reflection on girlhood, identity, expectations, relationships, and the courage it takes to choose yourself without losing your compassion for others.

Because you were a person before you became an expectation.

This book is an invitation to question the rules you've inherited, understand yourself more deeply, and begin becoming the person you truly want to be.