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The Mel Robbins Podcast
The host highlighted the book as a bestselling daily‑meditation guide that she kept on her nightstand and gave as a gift, noting its short, five‑minute reflections that resonated with readers at pivotal moments. She explained that the 20th‑anniversary edition offered concise daily readings that her husband and others used in retreats to find hope, and both she and the author described how the prompts invited deeper questioning and had profoundly impacted their lives. The overall tone was strongly endorsing.
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Mel described it as a bestselling dailymeditation book that sits on her nightstand, offering 365 short essays that have profoundly impacted her, her husband and countless readers, while Mark highlighted its role in his own life and its format of brief daily reflections.
Mark Nepo... number one New York Times bestselling author of the seminal work, The Book of Awakening, which has changed millions of people's lives, including mine and my husband, Chris.
Mark Nepo is the number one New York Times bestselling author of the Book of Awakening, which is one of my favorite books. I give it as a gift. It sits on my nightstand.
the book of awakening sits on both sides of our beds because we do not want to share a copy. It is a beautiful collection of daily reflections that were born out of a very challenging time in your life when you were dealing with a cancer diagnosis.
I love that book so much is first of all, I really appreciate the format that there is an essay every day that you can read that takes you five minutes or less, but that has you, as you say, drop into the depth of life.
Even this Book of Awakening... it doesn't lead people to what is true; it invites by way of the prompts and the reflections. It inspires people to ask those questions.
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Mel said the 20th anniversary edition of this book has been her goto gift since 2016, offering short daily meditations that appear at the right moment in life.
It is the 20th anniversary edition that I am holding in my hands, written by the extraordinary Mark Nepo, and it is the book I give as a gift more than any other book.
The meditations are short, onetotwopage daily readings that you can pick up at any time, and they always seem to land exactly where you need to be.
My husband reads it every day and even brings it to the men's retreat he leads, where it helps people stare into the fire of life and find hope.
