GOWNS GUIDE

an excerpt

"the future is not a scary place, it’s a place where plans you made this morning materialize. the future is a magic trick"

summary

here is a collection of advice that rebecca gowns has doled out for a few years. it's not all of it, but it is a good chunk of it. although technically all of the stuff in the book is available for free, online, there ARE added benefits of buying this ebook!

• everything is very nicely formatted, and it looks dreamy on a tablet! 
  
• there is a bit of new material! including an introduction and a few "behind the scenes" notes!
• the advice is organized in a very handy way!
• there is an appendix with links and quotes...and poems! (not gowns' poems, but good ones!)

another incentive -- sales from this ebook will fund future hours of writing, and more ebooks about different things, and perhaps one day,

sections include:

1. I AM IN A FUNK

2. I HAVE A RELATIONSHIP PROBLEM

3. WHAT’S UP WITH SEX + GENDER?

4. I HAVE A SCHOOL / CAREER / MOTIVATION PROBLEM

5. I HAVE A FAMILY PROBLEM

6. I HAVE A FRIEND PROBLEM

7. THIS SOCIAL / POLITICAL PROBLEM IS BUGGIN ME

...and much more! (at least 5 more! at least!!)

testimonials

"Gowns, you are such an A+ advice-giver. I feel that you should be making so much money as an advice columnist that, like, you'd need to empty out your koi pond to have somewhere to store all the hundred dollar bills. I don't even know how much advice columnists make. I have no idea. But you're compassionate and generous and practical and funny and just great."

"One time I was feeling pretty bummed and thought about eating an entire bag of shredded cheese just to feel better, but I read your advice columns instead. My body, in more ways than one, was better off with your words. Bless."

"Usually I'm very self-sufficient, but I have appreciated your advice specifically throughout the years. Everything you say is nuanced and textured. Your words give me hope and calm me down."

"Your writing on sexuality has made me understand a few fundamental truths about myself that i was too afraid and/or ignorant to pay attention to."

"You always take the time and effort into your replies to make them really compassionate and thorough. Thank you so much, earnestly."

"thanks for giving so many people a place to turn where they don't have to feel shame or judgement for being human"

"thank you so much for taking your own time to give a stranger advice and such good advice at that, i read it and cried... i have had people reassure me in the last few days but not the way you did."

"Your advice column has helped me so much with virtually every problem a young adult could face!! I always make sure to send my friends there because I've never seen such complex n well thought out answers that examine the event from every angle n are simplified for every day person to synthesize. Each ask is like a book in its own! U have such a compassionate, nurturing maternal voice n gently push ppl in the right direction."

"I kept a green bough in my heart and now I'm drowning in dick. Tbh it's a little much :-/"

another excerpt

"the future is a place where you have beautiful skin because you took my advice and stayed well-hydrated throughout your youth — look forward to this moment, in the future, where you are making all the other olds jealous, hunkered down in the bomb shelter outside of a walled-off city, “your skin is amazing,” and you’ll laugh, because you’re still alive and still drinking a lot of water and it will make you so beautiful that the rich fuckers in the walled-off cities will spot you and cry, and you will be the one who unites future humanity, you with your perfect skin, you who have taken all of my advice."