Her Heels Over Him

Why This Name

There are many stories about heartbreak, and many about women learning to stand again. But this story holds a question that is far older than modern love and far deeper than any temporary pain. Why does a woman, even today, hesitate to choose herself first? Why does she often measure her worth through someone else’s eyes? Her Heels Over Him was born from this question, and from the silent truth that echoed inside Soniya’s journey.

In our society, a woman may earn her own money, travel alone, build her own home and identity, yet somewhere she is still taught that her emotional completion must come from a man. She is told, quietly or loudly, that love must sit above her dreams, and that her validation must arrive through someone else’s approval. And so, she learns to bend, to wait, to hope, to hold on. She learns to shrink herself even when she is capable of standing tall. But there comes a moment in every woman’s life when a heartbreak does not break her. Instead, it shapes her. That moment of clarity is what this title represents.

Soniya’s journey is not extraordinary because she travelled to Manila or because she dealt with loss. What makes her story different is the way she eventually stepped into her own power. She did not rise overnight. She stumbled. She cried. She made mistakes. She became messy, confused, impulsive and vulnerable. But slowly, with every choice she made for herself, she grew into a woman who no longer searched for her worth in someone else’s hands. Her heels became her symbol. Not fashion. Not attitude. Strength. The strength to stand tall above her fears, above her nostalgia, above the man who once defined her world. Her heels were not over him as a revenge, but over the version of herself that once believed she needed him to feel whole.

This title belongs to every woman who has ever felt small, and then discovered she was much larger than the moment that tried to break her. To every woman who has walked away quietly without creating noise. To every woman who has learned that dignity is louder than tears and courage is stronger than validation. Soniya’s story is a reminder that a woman becomes a woman not through marriage or age, but through the day she finally chooses herself with clarity and pride.

Her Heels Over Him is not a story of ending a relationship. It is a story of beginning a life. A story where the heroine’s greatest love becomes her own self. A story that invites readers to witness a transformation that feels painfully real and beautifully empowering. This is why the title exists. To mark the moment a woman steps above everything that once held her down, and walks forward in her own rhythm, her own height, her own power.