I Am Becoming · Book One

The Waking

“The waking comes before the rising.”

Twenty entries for the hour before the day claims you.

Available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon.

Before the day claims you — before the noise, the obligation, the performance — there is a moment. A breath. A stirring. Something in you that says: not yet. Stay here a moment longer.

Twenty entries. Each one written for that hour.

Not answers. Openings. A mantra to carry. A reflection to sit with. A cue to notice what is already moving in you — before the world asks you to name it.

This is not a book about waking up. It is a book about what happens in the silence before you rise.

From the Introduction

“Every transformation starts in a place too subtle for the world to notice. A whispered shift. A single new breath. A choice made in private long before it blooms in public.

You don’t need the world’s acknowledgment to begin. You don’t need applause to take a step inward. You don’t need certainty to rise.

You only need this: the willingness to be honest with yourself about what is stirring. And the courage — the quiet, private, unannounced courage — to let it breathe.”

— from Entry One

Book Specs

Format: Paperback · Kindle

Pages: 61

Publisher: SoulWord Press

Series: I Am Becoming, Book One

ISBN: 979-8-9946665-1-7

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