How To Be A Good Human: A Workbook for Throwing Out the Old Rules and Writing Your Own

by Staci Dennett

Overview

We don't need more perfect people. We need more good humans.

Life today feels harder than it should. We're surrounded by information, pulled in a thousand directions, and constantly measuring ourselves against impossible standards. Most of us inherited a messy mix of family rules, cultural scripts, and social pressures-and somewhere along the way, we forgot how to simply be human.

How to Be a Good Human is a clear, compassionate workbook for anyone who's tired of striving for perfection and ready to live steady, real, and alive. Instead of piling on more rules, it brings you back to the basics: hygiene as dignity, body care as respect, space as support, resources spent on purpose, relationships that matter, purpose that guides, practice that steadies, joy that fuels, honesty that connects, and authorship that puts you back in the director's chair of your life.

Through short, honest chapters and interactive exercises, you'll uncover your own patterns, cross out what doesn't fit, and write in what does. Along the way, you'll create a personal Good Human Guidebook-a living playbook you can actually use long after the book ends.

This isn't about being flawless. It's about being real. It's about choosing consistency over perfection, joy over burnout, and authenticity over masks. Whether you're in transition, recovering from burnout, or simply craving a more intentional life, this workbook gives you the tools to steady yourself and ripple goodness outward-into your family, community, and the world.

Because the truth is simple: the mess is not the enemy. The mess is the material.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798319686923
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	09/22/2025
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.26(d)

About the Author

Staci Ann Dennett is a writer, health coach, and builder of practical tools for real life. She is the creator of How to Be a Good Human: A Workbook for Throwing Out the Old Rules and Writing Your Own, a compassionate and usable framework that helps people steady themselves, live with intention, and remember that steady beats perfect every time.

Her path to this work wasn’t straightforward. Like most of us, Staci grew up absorbing a jumble of rules about what it meant to be “good.” She learned early how to perform, please, and polish—but also how exhausting it is to live inside scripts written by others. After years of pushing through chronic health struggles, navigating loss, and rebuilding her life more than once, she realized something radical: the basics of being human are enough. Washing your face, drinking water, telling the truth, laughing at a silly joke, tidying a corner of your space—these small acts aren’t trivial. They are the foundation of dignity, joy, and connection.

From that realization, her work began. Staci blends her background in philosophy, political science, and lifestyle health coaching with a deep respect for everyday courage. She doesn’t write from a pedestal or from theory alone—she writes from lived experience. Her voice is direct yet compassionate, honest yet hopeful. She believes people don’t need more pressure to be flawless; they need practical rhythms that fit real life. Her guiding conviction is simple: the mess is not the enemy. The mess is the material.

Beyond her writing, Staci is the founder of the Home Workout Club, an evidence-based wellness community designed to help people build sustainable health habits in approachable, non-perfectionist ways. She also co-creates family- and community-centered systems for healing, creativity, and intentional living. Whether she’s speaking, teaching, or coaching, her mission remains consistent: to help people step out of survival mode, reconnect with what matters, and write their own rules for a life that feels real.


Staci lives in New Mexico, where she is raising two sons and building the foundations of an intentional community. When she isn’t writing or coaching, you can find her laughing with her kids, sketching out new creative projects, or simply savoring small joys: strong coffee, desert sunsets, and music turned up loud in the kitchen.