Blessing Mistakes

by Brenda Miller

When you bless mistakes instead of being stressed by them, you dissolve a lot of turmoilin your head—and in your home. This book offers a host of connection-creating, stressreducingstrategies that transform you from grumpy to grateful and point you back toyour peaceful and playful nature.With a heartwarming sense of humor, Brenda helps you unfriend anger—simplybecause you don’t need it anymore. Dissolving anger makes space for Grace as your newoperating system, and leaves you genuinely able to show yourself and others kindnesswhen a mistake is made.Brenda also includes three stories from her children’s book, Mr. Upalupagus’s Secret Secrets to help you teach your kids how to bless mistakes and shoo away anger.Praise for Blessing Mistakes“I went from panicked to peaceful in a matter of seconds when I appliedthis simple strategy.”—Julie Veresh,Innate Dynamics“Blessing Mistakes is a game changer for me. Talk. About. Relief.”—Janna Glasman,Franklin Method Educator

176 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 19, 2021

About the author

Brenda Miller is the author of Season of the Body and co-author of Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction Her newest collection of essays, Blessing of the Animals, is forthcoming from Eastern Washington University Press. Her work has received five Pushcart Prizes and has been published in many journals, including Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun, Utne Reader, The Georgia Review, and The Missouri Review.

She currently lives in Bellingham, WA, with her dog Abbe and her cat Madrona, both of whom are acting as muses for her next book, where she is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review.