Book cover for Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections by Monique Gray Smith

Sharing the Light

Stories and Reflections

2026 Released
208 Pages
3-4 Hours
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AmbrosiaISBN 9781487013547

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Uplifting stories, vignettes, and reflections to inspire gratitude, love, joy, and hope in navigating life in a changing, challenging world.

"Monique Gray Smith's signature warmth and wisdom illuminates paths toward resilience, creativity, and human connection." --Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love

"Tender words and heartfelt stories provide gentle guidance to remind us how we can care for each other and ourselves, with attention to the profound power of small acts." --Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Through the lens of five transformative practices--gratitude, love, joy, happiness, and hope--bestselling author Monique Gray Smith weaves together short stories, poignant reflections, and thoughtful questions that invite readers to pause and reconnect with their inner light. And as an Indigenous author, Monique brings her cultural wisdom and unique perspective to each offering.

This beautiful and welcoming book can be read cover to cover or used as a daily source of guidance, providing gentle wisdom that inspires and empowers. Sharing the Light is a powerful reminder that when we embrace our light and share it with the world, that energy not only transforms us, but ripples out to uplift everyone around us.

Monique Gray Smith

Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, bestselling author and public speaker. Her books cover a broad spectrum of ages, topics and emotions. Woven into all of Monique's writing and her speaking engagements is the teaching that Love is Medicine. Her books include Speaking our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation, My Heart Fills With Happiness, You Hold Me Up, Lucy and Lola, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, Tilly and the Crazy Eights, When We Are Kind, I Hope, Dreaming Alongside and Kohkom's First Drum. She has also created the young adult adaptation of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Monique is Cree and Scottish. She lives with her family on the Traditional Territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ Peoples.

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