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 that began as the flu—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 website (BeckyGalli.com) houses over 400 published columns. 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.” She continues to write Thoughtful Thursdays—Lessons from a Resilient Heart, a column for her subscriber family that shares what’s inspired her to stay positive. 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.

TALKING POINTS

• Setting your day up for success– celebs that swear by it and the results show!
• Why positivity should be part of your morning routine and how to make it happen
• How to learn to live with uncertainty when you struggle with acceptance
• How to handle disappointment when life doesn’t go as planned
• How to remain positive when gratitude is hard to find
• How to see possibilities even in failure 
• How to navigate deep loss and begin to make sense of the pain
• How to let go of disappointment and live a fuller, purposeful life
• How to navigate grief during the holiday season 

TIMELY TIE-INS

May

• Mental Health Awareness Month
• Get Caught Reading Month
• National Share A Story Month
• Reading Is Fun Week – 6-10
• National Mental Health Awareness Week -10-16

June

• World Productivity Day – 20
• Social Media Day – 30

July

• Disability Pride Month
• Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
• International Self-Care Day – 24
• Paperback Book Day – 30

August

• Happiness Happens Month
• Book Lover’s Day – 9
• National Grief Awareness Day – 30
• We Love Memoirs Day – 31

September

• Self Care Month & Self Improvement Month
• Read a Book Day – 6
• International Literacy Day – 8
• National Positivity Day – 13
• International Day of Happiness at Work – 20-25
• R.E.A.D. in America Day – 23

October

• Emotional Wellness Month
• National Book Month
• National Storytelling Day – 5
• National Forgiveness & Happiness Day – 7

November

• Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month
• National Life Writing Month
• National Authors Day – 1
• I Love to Write Day – 15
• Thanksgiving – 28

December

• Read a New Book Month
• Christmas – 25