About The Book
Today’s Gonna Be Awesomesauce is a daily mindfulness meditation book for youth, parents, and families (and educators too!) filled with practical wisdom, quirky wit, and edgy savviness created with an educator’s lens, a yogi mom’s heart, and a superhero love for humanity.
It’s also a book about turning grief (including our daily roadblocks) into rainbows. There are a lot of plans, strategies, checklists, and classes out there that help us try to cope with the stresses of life. Yet, if we don’t know how to practice focus and sustained concentration; identify and self-regulate our emotions; commit time to self-inquiry to gain better awareness about ourselves, how we relate to others and our environment; and learn tools that spark our creative power, then all those plans, strategies, and checklists are nothing more than what appears on the surface. My book takes readers below the surface to tap into a limitless reservoir of the special sauce, Awesomesauce, which feeds all that stuff on the outside to bring authentic transformation to how we relate in and to life.
Also included in the book are 365 mindful breathing mantras. If you are short on time and can’t read the day’s entry, take note of the mindful breathing mantra. The book isn’t meant to be analyzed; it’s meant to be felt and practiced and, to be read with a contemplative lens. Let the words clear your mind and dance in your heart space.
The book has something for everyone in the family and it’s great for educators too. Whether you read an entry a day or read a few, mindfully breath in the mindful breathing mantras in solitude, with your family, or your class, you will notice a shift in your heart and mind space. In that shift you will feel deep inside that Today’s Gonna Be Awesomesauce !
Today’s Gonna Be Awesomesauce: Affirmation and Art Card Deck for Youth, Parents, and Educators is my first educational resource product. It’s perfect for classrooms, schools, home, on the road, and as gifts. The affirmation card deck is a fun-filled and inspiring visual resource to help all ages tune into their awesomesauce. Pick a card of the week (or one for each day), let the art pictures and colors inspire your own creative razzle dazzle, take a deep mindful breath in and repeat the affirmation silently to yourself, with a friend, or as a group on the exhale. There are many ways to use the cards (also included in the card deck is a Suggested Uses card) and here are just a few:
“Mindfulness, peace, and JOY! That’s what these cards bring to the classroom and to our family routines. I love the open-ended graphics and affirmations. They stimulate creative conversation, connection, and action in both kids and adults. I highly recommend adding these Awesomesauce cards to your daily routines whether you’re a classroom teacher, parent, or CEO. They will assuredly spark inspiration throughout your day.”
My story in conceiving and writing my first book, Today’s Gonna Be Awesomesauce: Daily Meditations for Youth, Parents, and Families began over two years ago when my life, as I then knew it, completely changed from the inside out. I had to dig deep inside for something beyond myself that gave me vision and purpose.