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Finding the Gift: Daily Meditations for Mindfulness
"Finding the Gift: Daily Meditations for Mindfulness" encourages readers to press pause for a few moments every day to gain life-changing insights from metaphors found in the most unlikely places. Whether it's from watching a favorite pet, a calm moment with nature, or a trip through the car wash, lessons to challenge and improve our well-being are everywhere, when we're mindfully watching for them.
In "Finding the Gift," Angela Howell has captured 366 unique meditations to help readers see life from a greater perspective, so they can really "get the lesson" and apply new insights to their own lives. As we embrace mindful living and improve how we show up in the world, the world becomes a better place for everyone.
In "Finding the Gift," Angela Howell has captured 366 unique meditations to help readers see life from a greater perspective, so they can really "get the lesson" and apply new insights to their own lives. As we embrace mindful living and improve how we show up in the world, the world becomes a better place for everyone.
- GenresSelf Help
448 pages, Paperback and Hardcover
First published September 28, 2015
153 people are currently reading
433 people want to read
About the author
Angela Howell
3 books22 followersAngela Howell has long been on the road to personal freedom. She survived a lengthy battle with anorexia and bulimia, and went on to earn multiple sales awards and top recognition with several Fortune 500 companies, until a work injury ended her career.
Angela is the author of "Finding the Gift: Daily Meditations for Mindfulness," which reveals life lessons in the form of metaphors found in the most unlikely places.
Passionate about wellness and success, Angela has been seen in Yahoo News, Cosmopolitan, Fast Company and is a regular contributor to Huffington Post. As a speaker, Angela shares her compelling story of triumph and success with a variety of audiences and uses her coaching program to help clients create "A Life Worth Having."
Angela is married to her first husband, G. Patrick Howell, a former undercover agent. Patrick is also her third husband! Their marriage and love affair is quite a story all its own, and has been ongoing for over thirty years (including her crush on him as a youth worship leader, when she was just thirteen). Together, they have a twenty-year old son and for the moment, four cats!
For more information, please visit her website at www.FindingtheGift.com.
Angela is the author of "Finding the Gift: Daily Meditations for Mindfulness," which reveals life lessons in the form of metaphors found in the most unlikely places.
Passionate about wellness and success, Angela has been seen in Yahoo News, Cosmopolitan, Fast Company and is a regular contributor to Huffington Post. As a speaker, Angela shares her compelling story of triumph and success with a variety of audiences and uses her coaching program to help clients create "A Life Worth Having."
Angela is married to her first husband, G. Patrick Howell, a former undercover agent. Patrick is also her third husband! Their marriage and love affair is quite a story all its own, and has been ongoing for over thirty years (including her crush on him as a youth worship leader, when she was just thirteen). Together, they have a twenty-year old son and for the moment, four cats!
For more information, please visit her website at www.FindingtheGift.com.
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January 21, 2016
Well done, Angela!
Lovely. Well written, quite insightful, thought provoking and very enjoyable. This is one book that I will happily purchase the actual physical copy so I can write in the margins and show it to friends.
Lovely. Well written, quite insightful, thought provoking and very enjoyable. This is one book that I will happily purchase the actual physical copy so I can write in the margins and show it to friends.
February 7, 2016
What a wonderful and gifted writer. I read my first day in Finding the Gift this morning and loved it. I will look forward to reading Angela Howell's inspirational and insightful reflections each day. Thank you Ms. Howell for sharing your introspection with us.
February 10, 2016
'Finding the Gift' redirects the mind, refreshes the soul and motivates the heart. Fantastic! Amazing daily read and a thoughtful gift for family and friends.”
Kathleen Johnson, Writer
Kathleen Johnson, Writer
February 5, 2020
For my full review of FINDING THE GIFT, please visit my book review blog: http://www.wellreadtart.com/2020/02/0...
I started reading FINDING THE GIFT when I was looking for a book of mindfulness exercises to help improve my day-to-day life and mental health. I wanted short, daily meditations that would help me focus on the positives in life, but I also wanted meditations without a religious spin. FINDING THE GIFT completely fits the bill. It’s hard to find inspirational reads that don’t employ religion to deliver their message, and I greatly appreciate that Howell makes mindfulness accessible to anyone. If you’re thinking about a daily meditation or mindfulness ritual, I urge you to give FINDING THE GIFT a try.
I started reading FINDING THE GIFT when I was looking for a book of mindfulness exercises to help improve my day-to-day life and mental health. I wanted short, daily meditations that would help me focus on the positives in life, but I also wanted meditations without a religious spin. FINDING THE GIFT completely fits the bill. It’s hard to find inspirational reads that don’t employ religion to deliver their message, and I greatly appreciate that Howell makes mindfulness accessible to anyone. If you’re thinking about a daily meditation or mindfulness ritual, I urge you to give FINDING THE GIFT a try.
October 9, 2019
Skeptical
This feels like someone saw a weird tree, decided to start meditating, and turned their daily journal into a book. Maybe I'm too narcissistic for meditation, but I don't care about someone else's rumination. Give me a concept and allow me to contemplate it on my own, uninfluenced. Instead, I am sifting through what the author saw on her walk one day or the antics of squirrels.
Honestly-- let's start with being fortunate enough to live somewhere with an attic and trees. It sounds amazing and all I read about it was how annoying nature was being to her neighbors one January morning
This feels like someone saw a weird tree, decided to start meditating, and turned their daily journal into a book. Maybe I'm too narcissistic for meditation, but I don't care about someone else's rumination. Give me a concept and allow me to contemplate it on my own, uninfluenced. Instead, I am sifting through what the author saw on her walk one day or the antics of squirrels.
Honestly-- let's start with being fortunate enough to live somewhere with an attic and trees. It sounds amazing and all I read about it was how annoying nature was being to her neighbors one January morning
May 24, 2020
This book has many golden nuggets that will help you in many situations & mindsets! I personally didn’t read it every day but more binge read it when I made time While keeping a journal. Either way you read it you will not regret it! This book confirmed a lot of things for me & taught me more. There are Christian religious attributes in it; however, it is more spiritual in contacts.
December 31, 2022
Such an insightful author who shares her wisdom through life’s metaphors. Practical and inspirational, thought-provoking and powerful!
February 21, 2022
Inspiring. Uplifting. A Treasure—and a Gift
Updated review 9/2020
A year has passed and I've read through Angela's daily meditations for a year. I decided to upgrade it to a 5. I rarely give 5 stars because I am a writer and I read critically, even the books of my friends—fabulous books. I could still give this a 4 and live with that, (the writing is good,) but I'm upgrading it to a 5 because it meant so much to me. It was a gift, like the title, to read it and incorporate it into my morning contemplative practices. It was amazing how much of the time, the day's reading was just what I needed that very moment. I ended up highlighting many portions and sharing them to Facebook via Kindle quotes. There was so much quote worthy in this treasure of a book.
Angela is very transparent in this book and that vulnerability and authenticity, especially casually knowing her, helped increase its meaning and value. I still feel the same about the god language but having read through a year, I don't dock it for that as much as it's not incredibly prevalent throughout the book.
This book has blessed me this year of great transition and growth. Thank you, Angela, for the gift of your writing, insights, your growth and this book. Brava!!
Original review Nov. 2019
Confession. I purchased at least a dozen copies of this book a year ago to give as holiday gifts to family and employees. I met the author at an artist's gathering. She caught my attention when she said her book was about mindfulness. She had a calm demeanor about her, and I intuited she was authentic and this book would be a useful gift. But, I didn't begin reading it until a year later. I like to read something when I awaken and I already had a couple of morning meditation books in the line up. A year rolls around and I'm a little ho-hum the first week of reading. Cute, pleasant nature metaphors. I was a tad turned off by the sprinkling of "God" language. But, I decided to download on Kindle for inspirational morning reading in lieu of toxic Facebook, and got a different sense as I read the intro and the lovely mediation on the tree that served as Angela's catalyst for this book. Then my eye caught a title in September as I was swiping to the current date. What I found was a handful of meditations that were spot on, what I needed to read today, topic after topic of spiritual depth and spiritual clearing. I'm impressed and happy to have finally put this as my first up morning reading and pleased I took a risk to give, unread, to so many others. I look forward to "finding the gift" of inspiration and uplift in the morning pages to come. Too, it feels good to read how another person intuits wisdom in nature surroundings. I recommend this book!
Updated review 9/2020
A year has passed and I've read through Angela's daily meditations for a year. I decided to upgrade it to a 5. I rarely give 5 stars because I am a writer and I read critically, even the books of my friends—fabulous books. I could still give this a 4 and live with that, (the writing is good,) but I'm upgrading it to a 5 because it meant so much to me. It was a gift, like the title, to read it and incorporate it into my morning contemplative practices. It was amazing how much of the time, the day's reading was just what I needed that very moment. I ended up highlighting many portions and sharing them to Facebook via Kindle quotes. There was so much quote worthy in this treasure of a book.
Angela is very transparent in this book and that vulnerability and authenticity, especially casually knowing her, helped increase its meaning and value. I still feel the same about the god language but having read through a year, I don't dock it for that as much as it's not incredibly prevalent throughout the book.
This book has blessed me this year of great transition and growth. Thank you, Angela, for the gift of your writing, insights, your growth and this book. Brava!!
Original review Nov. 2019
Confession. I purchased at least a dozen copies of this book a year ago to give as holiday gifts to family and employees. I met the author at an artist's gathering. She caught my attention when she said her book was about mindfulness. She had a calm demeanor about her, and I intuited she was authentic and this book would be a useful gift. But, I didn't begin reading it until a year later. I like to read something when I awaken and I already had a couple of morning meditation books in the line up. A year rolls around and I'm a little ho-hum the first week of reading. Cute, pleasant nature metaphors. I was a tad turned off by the sprinkling of "God" language. But, I decided to download on Kindle for inspirational morning reading in lieu of toxic Facebook, and got a different sense as I read the intro and the lovely mediation on the tree that served as Angela's catalyst for this book. Then my eye caught a title in September as I was swiping to the current date. What I found was a handful of meditations that were spot on, what I needed to read today, topic after topic of spiritual depth and spiritual clearing. I'm impressed and happy to have finally put this as my first up morning reading and pleased I took a risk to give, unread, to so many others. I look forward to "finding the gift" of inspiration and uplift in the morning pages to come. Too, it feels good to read how another person intuits wisdom in nature surroundings. I recommend this book!
April 19, 2016
Angela,
I want to thank you again for choosing me as a winner of your book. It is actually amazing I received this message shortly after my grandmother messaged me thanking me for gifting the book to her. I chose to give her this book because my grandpa passed away in Christmas Eve and I felt this would be a nice inspiration to her. She has always put everyone else before herself. She knows the importance of understanding what others are going through to know she is not the only one who has suffering. She messaged me this morning to tell me how useful your book is for her. I will gain more insight from her as she continues reading and I will also let her know your comments about the entries you mentioned. I will eagerly await the day she finishes it so I can read it myself!
Thank you so much,
Jessica Mills
I want to thank you again for choosing me as a winner of your book. It is actually amazing I received this message shortly after my grandmother messaged me thanking me for gifting the book to her. I chose to give her this book because my grandpa passed away in Christmas Eve and I felt this would be a nice inspiration to her. She has always put everyone else before herself. She knows the importance of understanding what others are going through to know she is not the only one who has suffering. She messaged me this morning to tell me how useful your book is for her. I will gain more insight from her as she continues reading and I will also let her know your comments about the entries you mentioned. I will eagerly await the day she finishes it so I can read it myself!
Thank you so much,
Jessica Mills
October 6, 2016
Nice read. I took it slow and really tried to digest all of the mindful readings in the book. Lots of thoughts to ponder.
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