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Turn the Gas Off is a powerful, compassionate guide for anyone who has experienced the disorienting effects of gaslighting and emotional manipulation.

Drawing from years of work in leadership development, belonging, and relational dynamics—as well as lived experience—Gigi Gilliard helps readers identify how gaslighting operates, who ignites it, and why its effects can quietly corrode a person’s sense of self. With clarity and care, the book names destructive behaviors, explains how they destabilize truth and trust, and offers practical insight for reclaiming clarity, boundaries, and peace.

This is not a clinical text, nor is it an exposé. Turn the Gas Off is a grounded companion for those who want language for what they’ve experienced, understanding without diagnosis, and a path forward rooted in truth.

Written for survivors, leaders, helpers, and truth-seekers alike, Turn the Gas Off invites readers to recognize when the air is poisoned—and to choose clean air again.

Available January 30, 2026.

 “Hello Beautiful, Get Well Soon: When Hope and Healing Are On the Other Side” as she curls up on her favorite chair and opens up her heart to us.

Traditionally, Black women have not readily sought help for emotional trouble. Generally, African American women (and women in general) are more apt to keep private about the intense pain of life experience that may have caused lasting trauma. Pain from past hurts, deep grief from death, illness, loss, anxiety, and other mental and emotional challenges have often remained hidden or have been silenced. Some would say that we cannot heal what we cannot feel… and very usually, we do not fully feel what we do not say.

In Hello Beautiful Get Well Soon, Gigi attempts to combat the stigma of mental and emotional difficulty by sharing with us her intensely personal (and sometimes hilarious) joust with mental and emotional turmoil. She takes us on a harrowing voyage through moments of despair, then to triumph. She chronicles for us her experience as a “feeling okay” Black girl, to the “I am unwell” Black girl, to a Black woman rising, and resolved to calm the heartache of her past.

Gigi is opening up about her battle with demons that have harassed her, forcing her to seek refuge in the land of healing resolutely. She warmly invites us along for the ride from a dark place of emotional upheaval, through a bewildering path crystallized by prayer, over a bridge as she sought support …and then finally to a place of peace. 

In Gigi's first self-published work, she tried to tell us about the damage of assuming things... anything... about people.

While it is so important to be 'heard', being understood is what every human craves. Whenever snap, uniform assumptions are made about us, we can feel misunderstood, miscategorized, and even mistreated. In good relationships, however, we can learn to fight past "what we think we know" about others and sojourn to see, hear, and understand the whole truth of another. And it is in these moments that we're on our way to rejecting assumption--- and even fighting bias. Gigi, "The Loud Brown Round Girl: Rejecting Assumptions That Do Not Define Me," uses vulnerability, humor, and a pinch of social psychological science in her storytelling to help us find our way.