welcome, wonder

A season of practices to curate an awe-filled life.

In the cadence of a season - 3 lunar cycles - I take you on a slow journey with daily reflections through practices that help you to notice and welcome the wonder that is readily available and all around.

Praise for Welcome, Wonder

  • If you are looking for expansion in your life, if you are looking to take up space, figuratively and literally, then you MUST allow the WONDER of this book to find a place in your quiet time.

    Tina Strawn, Author of Are We Free Yet? The Black Queer Guide To Divorcing America

  • Abernathy states, “Wonder saved me.” And with that declaration, her book filled with wonder might save us all

    Marcie Alvis Walker, Author of Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

  • In Welcome, Wonder, content and form align, as her prose moves across the page and gestures you into deeper awe, expansiveness, and belonging in creation

    Drew G. I. Hart, Associate Professor of Theology at Messiah University and author of Who Will Be A Witness?: Igniting Activism for God’s Justice, Love, and Deliverance

  • "Welcome, Wonder" is a masterpiece that has the power to transform lives. It's not just a book; it's a guide, a mentor, and a source of inspiration.

    Tommy (Allgood) Garvin, The Allgood Collective

  • Welcome, Wonder offers an opportunity for sacred exploration that will ground you in your humanity while making room for revelation in wonderment with Nya Abernathy as your trustworthy guide.

    Rebekah James Lovett, Founder Thambusami

  • Her passion for—and obsession with—wonder makes me want more of it in my life. And now, with her book, Welcome, Wonder, I’ve gotten my wish. Short, beautiful reflections to start my day with what I hope will become a lifelong habit: more noticing, more affirmation, more wonder.

    Marla Taviano, author of unbelieve, jaded, and whole

Welcome, Wonder
A season of practices to curate an awe-filled life.
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Welcome, Wonder is Nya S. Abernathy’s debut book where she journeys with us - slowly - with the intention of noticing the wonder that is already present. A book of 84 reflections, Abernathy help us mark wonder over the course of a season in the cadence of three lunar cycles, focusing on themes like belonging, wholeness, story, and connection. Founder of The Dignity Effect, a boutique education firm specializing in adult social emotional learning, Abernathy weaves in the concept of dignity as she helps us pay attention to the awe within and without.

A collection of reflections, questions, and affirmations to be revisited again and again, Welcome, Wonder is a book for each of us that, in the midst of the modern world, will aid us in pausing to capture the wonder in the midst of our day to day.