Lessons from Grace - What a Baby Taught Me About Living and Loving

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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.' - R. Buckminster Fuller, When Uma, a forty-something mother of a college sophomore, was asked to nanny her friends' daughter, Grace, little did she know that she was about to begin an extraordinary journey. A baby arrives here as a pure being. Not yet marked by cultural and social conditioning, they bring a sense of sacredness to our lives. This was the author's experience. Through Grace, she is reminded of what is truly important in her life. More importantly, she also learns to navigate an increasingly complex world using the values of simplicity, joy, and presence-as babies do. Watching Grace brings her many lessons, like how the baby surrenders her entire being to a multicoloured rattle by living in the present. The author relearns the art of living by aligning with the values this baby teaches her.

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Uma Girish is a Grief Guide and Award-Winning Author. She guides women who are moving through transition, whether it is the death of a loved one or the loss of a dream, and helps them find purpose through her workshops and private coaching programmes. Her previous books include Understanding Death: 10 Ways to Inner Peace for the Grieving and Losing Amma, Finding Home: A Memoir About Love, Loss and Life's Detours. Uma co-founded the International Grief Council in 2015 and also facilitates storytelling and life enrichment groups in senior living communities. She currently lives in Chicago.