The dirty plate

THE DIRTY PLATE

Clean Enough to Use. Dirty Enough to Toss.

What if you spent your whole life trying to become worthy of being kept?

You learned to give.

To carry.

To provide.

To forgive.

To stay.

You became useful because somewhere along the way, you began believing that being useful was the closest thing to being loved.

But what happens when you finally have nothing left to give?

The Dirty Plate is Glory Geoffrey's raw and intimate memoir about childhood, motherhood, survival, relationships, abandonment, and the quiet journey of finding your way back to yourself.

It is about the little girl who learned to disappear.

The woman who kept carrying.

The mother who decided the story would not continue through her.

And the moment she finally asked:

Who told me what I was worth?

This is not a story about becoming perfect.

It is not a story about having all the answers.

It is a story about what happens when you stop trying to become clean enough to be kept—

and discover that you were never a plate to begin with.

If you have ever felt invisible until someone needed you…

If you have ever confused being needed with being loved…

If you have ever stayed too long, given too much, or abandoned yourself trying to keep everyone else…

this story may find you.

Come sit at the table.

There is something here you may have been waiting your whole life to hear.

You were never a plate.

You never were.

— Glory Geoffrey