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Morning Fuel

Daily Inspirations to Stretch Your Mind Before Starting Your Day

Published by She Writes Press
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About The Book

Best-selling author Rebecca Galli has experienced some of life’s most difficult challenges: sibling loss, special needs children, paralysis. In this book of daily readings, she offers reflective questions and inspiration for readers to “fuel up” on positivity each morning.

If there’s one thing Rebecca Galli knows, it’s the importance of staying fueled—daily. She’s had a lot to power through: Her seventeen-year-old brother’s death. Two children with special needs that include autism and epilepsy. Divorce. And her own paralysis. Galli has lived a life filled with unexpected loss—and learning.

Infused with wisdom from Galli’s deep-thinking pastor father, her ever-optimistic, hostess-with-the-mostest mother, and other memorable family members and friends, Morning Fuel offers stories designed to inspire, encourage, or make you think. Sprinkled throughout are quotes from some of the greatest thinkers of our time—words that have bolstered Galli’s resolve to power through her darkest valleys. Each entry ends with questions that invite personal application and provoke further pondering.

How you start your morning sets the tone for your whole day. Let the wisdom of Morning Fuel help you make that tone a positive one.

About The Author

Rebecca (Becky) Faye Smith Galli is an author and columnist who writes about love, loss, and healing. Surviving significant losses—her seventeen-year-old brother’s death; her son’s degenerative disease and subsequent death; her daughter’s autism; her divorce; and nine days later, her paralysis from transverse myelitis, a rare spinal cord inflammation affecting one in a million—has fostered an unexpected but prolific writing career. In 2000, The Baltimore Sun published her first column about playing soccer with her son—from the wheelchair that launched her From Where I Sit newspaper column. Her books, Rethinking Possible – A Memoir of Resilience (2017) and Morning Fuel – Daily Inspirations to Stretch Your Mind Before Starting Your Day (2024) reflect what she believes: “Life can be good—no matter what.” With over 400 published columns, she continues to write Thoughtful Thursdays—Lessons from a Resilient Heart (www.beckygalli.com/signup). A Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she was formerly employed by IBM, where she was the recipient of the Golden Circle award for marketing excellence. Becky resides in Lutherville, Maryland, outside of Baltimore.

Product Details

  • Publisher: She Writes Press (October 29, 2024)
  • Length: 528 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781647427825

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Raves and Reviews

“Reading the day's Morning Fuel changes my experience from my dark thinking to divine light. This sets me on a new, possibility filled trajectory for my day.”Hilary Burns, show host and best-selling author

“If you remember and loved Simple Abundance, you will welcome and embrace Rebecca Galli’s daily reflection, Morning Fuel. Her eye for the detailed moments of everyday life enriches those moments and elevates them into reflections that lead to wisdom. Each day’s entry is like reading a note written by a loved friend and left for you to read when you wake up after she’s already left for work. What a way to start your day!”—Martha Finney, co-author of Healing at Work and Any Dumbass Can Do It

Morning Fuel is just that and so much more! With great warmth, wisdom and generosity, Rebecca Galli asks that we stop, reflect, and think. She is an inspiration and her words will leave readers moved to respond to her gentle, thought-provoking prompts all through the year.”—Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life

Morning Fuel is a masterclass in how to meet grief with grace. Written in the time-honored format of a book of days, each daily mini essay offers a shot of positivity in engaging and relatable bite size pieces that include reflective takeaway questions for the reader . . . Insightful and thought-provoking, Galli’s new book provides profound lessons on how to live more mindfully.”—Liane Kupferberg Carter, author of Ketchup is My Favorite Vegetable: A Family Grows Up with Autism

“I did not know what to expect from Morning Fuel and was so dazzled that I read it through like a novel. Each entry is a gem that combines to tell a full of story of a life of profound loss, resilience, and hope. This is a unique and beautiful piece of writing, with insights that turned in my head all day long.”—Sheri T. Joseph, author of Edge of the Known World

“The stories in Morning Fuel serve as a convenient handbook for those who wish to examine their own ways of thinking and acting in our challenging world, and as a guide to a more meaningful life.”—Luanne Castle, author of Our Wolves and Rooted and Winged

“Filled with [Galli’s] trademark upbeat spirit, southern charm, and gentle humor, this inspiring and insightful book will be a simple yet powerful addition to anyone’s morning routine.”—Lisa Manterfield, author of All Our Lies Are True

“Galli delivers on her promise to inspire, encourage, or make you think! Morning Fuel is a great addition to the S.A.V.E.R.S. routine.”—Hal Elrod, best-selling author and creator of The Miracle Morning

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