Wake Up Grateful

This practical and inspiring program is filled with guiding principles, reflections, exercises, and meditations for making gratitude a daily practice, especially during uncertain and challenging times.

Is it possible to be grateful in challenging times? Our wellbeing depends on it, but how do we achieve it? In Wake Up Grateful, Kristi Nelson, executive director of A Network for Grateful Living, unlocks the path to recognizing abundance in every moment, no matter the moment. With questions for reflection, daily exercises, and perspective prompts, Nelson introduces readers to the benefits of a daily gratitude practice. Using the story of her own cancer experience as a touchstone, Nelson provides deep insight and help in finding resilience and wellbeing in the face of life’s uncertainties and offers the promise of profound personal change.

Kristi Nelson is the author of Wake Up Grateful and the executive director of A Network for Grateful Living. She has a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and has spent more than 30 years in nonprofit leadership, development, and consulting. She has worked at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and the Soul of Money Institute. Nelson is a Stage IV cancer survivor who cherishes living among friends and family in western Massachusetts.
As a scholar, writer, and social activist, Brother David Steindl-Rast has shared messages of peace, interfaith dialogue, social justice, and environmental stewardship worldwide for more than 50 years in spoken and written word that is both thoughtful and occasionally infused with beauty, wonderment, and wit. His TEDtalk Want to Be Happy? Be Grateful has garnered over 5 million views and thousands of people a day tap into the interactive online community he co-founded, A Network for Grateful Living, for information and guidance on the transformative power of gratefulness as a mindfulness practice.
A Network for Grateful Living is a global, nonprofit organization offering online and community-based educational programs and practices that inspire and guide a commitment to grateful living, and catalyze the transformative power of personal and societal responsibility. Based in Hadley, Massachusetts, they are the force behind the best-selling Everyday Gratitude and Everyday Gratitude Frame-Ups.

Foreword by Brother David Steindl-Rast
Introduction: Alive and Grateful
Part I: From Gratitude to Grateful Living
  1 Gratefulness: Gratitude for the Great Fullness of Life
  2 The Five Guiding Principles: Grateful Living as a Way of Life
  3 Stop. Look. Go.: Cultivating a Grateful Living Practice
  4 Living Gratefully Moment to Moment: How to Have a Grateful Day
Part II: Grateful Living in the Real World
  5 Savoring Uncertainty
  6 Reassuring the Body as It Is
  7 Appreciating Our Emotions
  8 Befriending Our Full Selves
  9 Cherishing Connection
  10 Holding the Heart of Grief and Love
  11 Belonging in Nature
  12 Celebrating Sufficiency
  13 Healing a Hurting World
  14 Living a Grateful Legacy
Epilogue
Gratitude
Index