Some books tell you how to fix your life. This one admits it’s messy.
Ugly Little Victories is not a polished guide. It’s a raw, diary-style sprawl about celebrating the smallest scraps of effort—brushing your teeth at 2 p.m., finally answering that unread text, washing one dirty mug before it fossilizes in the sink.
Told in the unfiltered, late-night Notes app style of Juno Ellis, this book doesn’t promise a ten-step routine or miracle cure. Instead, it offers honesty: that survival is often ugly, that progress looks like spirals instead of straight lines, and that even the tiniest actions count when your brain fights you on everything.
Through embarrassing confessions, tangents, contradictions, and messy humor, Ellis shows that victories don’t have to be shiny to matter. Sometimes the “bare minimum” is actually monumental.
This is for anyone who feels broken, behind, or stuck in the loop of trying again and again. If you’ve ever wanted permission to celebrate the crumbs of effort in your daily chaos—this is it.
