You replayed it in the shower.
You replayed it in the car.
You replayed it at 2am, wide awake, rewriting what you should have said.
She said one sentence. It took you three days to recover.
That's not you being sensitive. That's her being good at this.
YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO SHE IS
She doesn't yell. She doesn't have to.
She smiles while she says it. She loops in "the team."
She "just wants to check on you" right after your worst week.
She remembers your business idea long enough to pitch it as her own.
You left that conversation feeling crazy.
You are NOT crazy.
You were just outplayed by someone who's been running this exact move since the sixth grade.
She graduated. She got a LinkedIn. She joined the PTA.
She never stopped.
SPOT HER. STAND UP TO HER. REFUSE TO BE HER.
No 10-step healing journey.
No workbook that judges you from the coffee table.
Just the truth, at full volume.
✅ Spot her — before you spend one more night convincing yourself it was nothing
✅ Stand up to her—real lines, for real moments, that don't end with you crying in a bathroom stall
✅ Refuse to be her — because somewhere in this book, you're going to flinch. That chapter's for you too.
This isn't about becoming harder. It's about never again apologizing for noticing what actually happened.
READ IT BEFORE SHE KNOWS IT EXISTS
I'm handing you the first pages of my book—
free, right now, before this book hits a single shelf.
Not a teaser chapter that cuts off at the good part. The real thing.
The part where I tell you, point blank, why I wrote this—and why it's about you.
You'll get first access to the full book, and the stuff I'm never posting publicly.
WHY I WROTE THIS
I'm Dr. Renea Skelton. Communication expert. Retired Air Force officer.
Woman who has sat in her car in a parking lot, gripping the steering wheel,
asking herself what she did wrong.
I've been the one iced out. I've been smiled at in a meeting and gutted by lunchtime.
And if I'm honest with you the way this whole book is honest with you—
there was a version of me, once, who was her.
This isn't a takedown. It's a mirror. And it doesn't blink.
Mean Girls Grow Up. Book Launch: September 19th at the Aledo Literary Fest.