Daily Glimmers

This beautiful pocket self-help book teaches us to notice three-second glimmers of joy every day, to build resilience and deal with difficult times.

In difficult times it's easy to get lost in the darkness – but this beautiful pocket self-help book gives us the tools to find three-second glimmers of joy every day, to build our resilience and keep us going.

Did you just taste something delicious? That was a glimmer. Notice the way the light slanted in through the window? That was a glimmer.

Glimmers are easy to miss as they’re so brief and fleeting, but they can help your mood shift, and lift. Finding them – uncovering them on the commute, or while doing the same-old daily routine – is an art and a skill. Looking for glimmers is a recognized mental health practice to enable you to deal with the darkest days.

In this book, 12 thematic chapters each hold 30 or 31 beautiful glimmers plus two aligned alternatives, amounting to one entry for every day of the year – and more than 1,000 glimmers. Learn to notice micro-moments of joy such as putting on a pair of new socks, stroking a purring cat, popping a cork, walking up a hill and looking back at how far you've come, finishing a jar, watching a rainbow brighten, sinking your hands into earth, being told "no rush", reviving a dying fire, and hundreds more.

With beautiful line-drawn illustrations, exercises to help you uncover more joy, and reflections on the history and effects of glimmers, this fun, fresh book is small enough to pop in your bag – but big enough to expand your life."This book made me fall in love with life again."
– Jessica Fox, author of Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets: A Real-Life Scottish Fairy Tale

"I’ve learned that you don’t need a perfect world to find joy – you just need to pause long enough to feel the glimmer.”
– Charles "Chuck" Henderson, CEO of the American Diabetes Association

“Daily Glimmers is a soulful companion for stormy seasons. Bridget helps readers to recognize the quiet sparkle of everyday life that can be hard to identify or create in the throes of hard things. And she does it one honest, artful moment at a time, no silver linings required.”
– Rebecca Soffer, bestselling author of The Modern Loss Handbook

“In a world burdened by negativity, this book is indeed a slice of joy or as the author would say ‘a glimmer’. Much recommended!”
– Dr Partha Kar FRCP MD OBE, Type 1 Diabetes & Technology Lead, NHS England

"This beautiful book features over 1,000 glimmers, many unique, some surprising, and all designed to spark your brain to search for more of them in your everyday with the goal of lowering anxiety and increasing happiness."
– Psychologies MagazineBridget McNulty began her career as a magazine journalist following a summa cum laude degree in creative writing, and has since written the novel Strange Nervous Laughter (2008) as well as The Grief Handbook (Watkins, 2021) and the popular Substack newsletter Daily Glimmers. Bridget also co-founded the NGO Sweet Life Diabetes Community, which has become South Africa’s largest online diabetes community, through which she publishes books and a regular magazine. She has featured in Glamour, Women & Home, YOU magazine and more.

For more information, visit bridgetmcnulty.com