Gentle Awakening

A 365-day journey to healing, freedom and belonging

If you have ever felt overwhelmed, exhausted or unworthy, this book is for you. 

Sometimes all it takes is a simple question to awaken the strength and compassion hiding within us. To wake us up to the truth and beauty of who we are. Daily Awakening is a nurturing guide to living a life free from struggle, anxiety and overwhelm, offering a sacred space for introspection where self-acceptance and self-compassion can blossom.

Drawing on ancient wisdom and modern science, this book provides 365 days of insightful questions to encourage reflection, awareness and healing. From overcoming perfectionism to rediscovering your inner child, and coping with anxiety to tackling burnout, integrative counsellor and meditation teacher Nicola Jane Hobbs offers soothing words and gentle advice to inspire you to slow down, make peace with yourself and create a life full of meaning, beauty and joy.

Chapters include:
  • Awakening self-compassion
  • Awakening authenticity
  • Awakening from people-pleasing
  • Awakening success
  • Awakening from burnout
  • Awakening meaning and purpose
  • Awakening to joy
  • Awakening body kindness
  • Awakening to uncertainty
  • ​Awakening to wholeness

This year-long journey will allow you to form a deep connection with your authentic self and will equip you with the tools to stay true to your heart among the never-ending demands of the modern world.

Daily Awakening is out on the 30th December.
Simply email me a screenshot of your order details and I'll send you a bonus chapter on publication: Awakening Manifestation and Magic.

Nicola's other books

If you have always wanted to live more peacefully, love more fully, and discover a deeper, more meaningful spiritual life, yoga is the path. 

Heartfelt and deeply practical, Strong, Calm and Free brings alive the possibility of a life of inner peace, compassion and joy. Grounded in both modern science and ancient wisdom, this beautiful and inspiring book demystifies the philosophy and psychology of yoga, making the 4000-year old practice accessible for modern life.

Whether you've never stepped foot on a yoga mat before or want to deepen your home practice, this beautifully-illustrated book is suitable for all abilities, gently guiding you through a ten-week journey of yoga sequences, meditations and mindful living practices that will build strength, bring insight and offer a path to healing and freedom.

Whether you long to live with less stress, reduce anxiety or find the confidence to follow your dreams, Thrive Through Yoga will take you on a journey towards health, strength and freedom.

Thrive Through Yoga unites ancient wisdom with modern psychology to create a revolutionary route to freedom from the anxieties and worries of 21st-century living. This life-changing 21-day journey maps out a clear path to healing and personal growth through daily yoga routines, heart-centred explorations and meditations. Find the inspiration, guidance and courage to let go of whatever is holding you back, transform struggle into strength, and grow as bold and brave and beautiful as you were born to be.
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To help your Thrive Through Yoga journey, you can find a video of the Thrive sequence and a selection of meditations for the book HERE

Fear-Free Food shows you how to break free from the toxic messages of diet culture, make peace with food and discover how to truly nourish yourself. 

Filled with compassionate advice, mindset techniques and practical steps to help you trust your body and find food freedom, as well as science-backed information dispelling widespread nutrition myths, Fear-Free Food shows you how to replace dieting and deprivation with nutrition and nourishment.

With over 80 nutritious and delicious recipes to reignite your passion for eating, ranging from Italian Baked Eggs, Sweet Moroccan Falafel and Pan-fried Salmon Tikka, to Lemon Ricotta Pancakes, Honey Oat Banana Bread and Carrot Cake Cookies. Each recipe embraces the Fear-Free Food philosophy of balanced, fun, fear-free eating to inspire you to get creative in the kitchen and fall in love with food, your body and your life!

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Keeping active, moving well, and stretching regularly are all important in living a long, healthy, and happy life. 

Stay Young with Yoga shows you how to stay flexible, energised and pain-free in your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.

Whether you want move better, get stronger, ease aches and pains, or simply feel fitter and healthier, Nicola guides you through over 70 simple poses and 20 easy-to-practise sequences, with variations and modifications so you can choose poses and sequences that suit you.
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With routines designed to fit in with your lifestyle, including morning sequences, desk stretches, de-stress routines, sequences to practice after gardening, housework, and in front of the TV, as well as routines for pain-free movement, workouts for strength and fitness, and routines to support your other hobbies like golf, tennis, and dancing, Stay Young with Yoga will give you the tools to get stronger, fitter and healthier whatever your age.

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Yoga Gym uses the body as an active, living, moving dumbbell. ​

Yoga Gym is for any fitness junkie who is ready to get off the treadmill and start a fitness plan that will get you strong, supple, and healthy. This 28 day plan will build strength, improve mobility, and burn fat. 

Whether you’re a yoga fanatic, regular gym goer, Olympic athlete, or exercise novice, Yoga Gym provides you with a totally new way to work out. By choosing from over 150 poses and exercises or following the 28 day plan and working out just four times a week, Yoga Gym gives you the training, nutrition and motivational tools to sculpt a strong body and build a strong mind.

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