I’m so glad you are here. I hope you’ll pull up a chair and sit with me a while. I bring my own wherever I go, not by choice of course.
But that’s another story.
Here you can find information about my books as well as some of my shiniest writings on my bouts with life and its challenges as an accidental student of life-redefined. Sibling loss. Epilipsy. Autism. Divorce. Paralysis. Yes, I have more questions than answers but I still believe, life can be good, no matter what. I hope some of what I’ve written will be helpful to you. Use the tabs above or the search bar at the top to navigate the site.
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Every third Thursday, maybe more often if I get on a roll, I’ll send out a Thoughtful Thursday featuring a column, or a timely book excerpt about my search to stay positive and inspired on this road of love, loss, and healing.
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In the meantime, you may see me flitting around online elsewhere, too—although I’m not quite the social butterfly that my mama was. My most recent comments are usually on Instagram, Facebook or X. I’m @Chairwriter (cute, right?)!
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Morning Fuel – Daily Inspirations to Stretch Your Mind Before Starting Your Day
Publication Date October 29, 2024
Publisher: She Writes Press
Distributed by: Simon & Schuster
Best-selling author Rebecca Galli has experienced some of life’s most difficult challenges: sibling loss, special needs children, paralysis. In this book of daily readings, she offers reflective questions and inspiration for readers to “fuel up” on positivity each morning.
If there’s one thing Rebecca Galli knows, it’s the importance of staying fueled—daily. She’s had a lot to power through: Her seventeen-year-old brother’s death. Two children with special needs that include autism and epilepsy. Divorce. And her own paralysis. Galli has lived a life filled with unexpected loss—and learning.
Infused with wisdom from Galli’s deep-thinking pastor father, her ever-optimistic, hostess-with-the-mostest mother, and other memorable family members and friends, Morning Fuel offers stories designed to inspire, encourage, or make you think. Sprinkled throughout are quotes from some of the greatest thinkers of our time—words that have bolstered Galli’s resolve to power through her darkest valleys. Each entry ends with questions that invite personal application and provoke further pondering.
How you start your morning sets the tone for your whole day. Let the wisdom of Morning Fuel help you make that tone a positive one.
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Rethinking Possible – A Memoir of Resilience
Publication Date June 13, 2017
“In her poignant and courageous book, Galli pulls no punches. Rage, tears, frustrations, denial, and doubts spill from the pages through articulate, conversational prose…A touchingly honest and thought-provoking account that focuses on resilience.”
– Kirkus Reviews
Rebecca Faye Smith Galli was born into a family that valued the power of having a plan. With a pastor father and a stay-at-home mother, her 1960s southern upbringing was bucolic―even enviable. But when her brother, only seventeen, died in a waterskiing accident, the slow unraveling of her perfect family began.
Though grief overwhelmed the family, twenty-year-old Galli forged onward with her life plans―marriage, career, and raising a family of her own―one she hoped would be as idyllic as the family she once knew.
But life had less than ideal plans in store.
IF YOU ARE NEW TO AUTISM and need resources or someone to talk to, contact the organization I helped found in 2000 for that very purpose – just click here or on their logo on the right.
OR IF YOU, or someone you know, ARE EXPERIENCING FRESH GRIEF, especially the loss of a child or an untimely death, my father’s book, Sit Down God. . . I’m Angry has been helpful to thousands.
But IF YOU NEED A LAUGH, right NOW my top performing column of all time is this one on my nephew’s Thanksgiving toast that shattered our dinner.
You’ll see more tabs above about wheelchair life, my passions, and my precious family—Madison, my adult daughter with autism, my pastor father, Dr. R.F. Smith Jr., (yes, I’m a PK!), my beloved brother, Forest, who died far too young at age seventeen, and oh yes, updates on my books.
Here’s a look back from a few years ago about my precious Madison and our journey with autism.
My best—always,
Becky
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