You Found This Place for a Reason
Hey, I'm Malia. I built Deserve Better because I spent too many years giving more than I got — in friendships, in relationships, in business deals. I know what it feels like to be lied to, taken advantage of, and left wondering what you did wrong. Spoiler: it wasn't you.
This isn't a polished self-help brand run by someone who has it all figured out. It's a collection of things I wish I'd had — real guidance, real strategies, real permission to want better.
I've been screwed over by businesses, ghosted by people I trusted, and stuck in patterns I didn't understand until I started doing the work. These guides and journals are everything I learned — and everything I needed when I was in the thick of it.
Deserve Better is for people who are done being the bigger person for everyone except themselves. You deserve better. That's not a tagline. That's the whole point.
What You'll Find Here
Real Strategies
No fluff. Step-by-step guidance for when you've been wronged.
Healing Tools
Journals that actually ask the hard questions.
Permission to Move On
Because you don't have to stay in anything that doesn't serve you.
Or start with the one that fits where you are right now.