Book Nook: A Beautiful Morning - How a Morning Ritual Can Feed Your Soul and Transform Your Life

How you start each day affects the quality of your whole day, and therefore your life. Being mindful in the morning centers and energizes you, helping you live with purpose, serenity, and joy. A morning ritual inspires personal transformation by providing space to connect with yourself, discover what you truly want, and visualize how to achieve it.

To parents of young children, however, this might seem like an impossibility as your mornings generally become centered around getting the kids ready for school, packing lunches, making breakfast, or informing your 4-year old that a tutu is not acceptable school attire. But in her new book, A Beautiful Morning: How a Morning Ritual Can Feed Your Soul and Transform Your Life, award-winning author Ashley Brown helps readers discover the true power that lies in the first moments of your day, even when those first moments are punctured by the often terrifying sounds of your children “making their own breakfast!”

Inspired by the morning ritual she implemented that ultimately changed her life, Brown interviewed more than twenty women who are also living their dreams, including New York Times best-selling author and life coach Martha Beck, to explore how they start their days and the positive impacts their rituals have on their lives.

Filled with an abundance of insights, ideas, and resources you can use right away, A Beautiful Morning discusses how:

• A morning ritual can benefit anyone at any age and does not need to be complex or time-consuming. It can be as simple as taking a few minutes to breathe or repeat a mantra before you get out of bed.
• You already have a morning ritual and should ensure your actions are benefiting you, rather than being detrimental to your day.
• Everyone’s life is different, and there is no “right” or “wrong” ritual. What works for you is right for you.
• You can adhere to your routine at a time that works best for your schedule. You don’t have to wake up at dawn and can fit a short ritual into most existing morning routines. You don’t even have to do your ritual in the morning!
• Taking time for yourself benefits others.
• It’s important to be flexible, and to be kind to yourself. Every day is different, and you may not always get to do your ritual, or you may need to adjust it—and that is OK. It’s meant to lift you up, not be an obligation that weighs you down. None of us needs anything more to stress about!