How Far You Have Come by Morgan Harper Nichols

That combination helped me see in my own story, ‘Wow, like you really made it.

And as I was looking at that photo, I thought, ‘Isn't this interesting how this photo to me represents so much beauty?’ At the same time, I was in a really uncertain season of my life when that photo was taken, and that led me on this journey of looking at other moments in my life that have been like that, where I've been somewhere that was aesthetically beautiful and at the same time there was internal struggle happening. It was just sunrise and mountain rock faces.

It was a photo that I took leaving Albuquerque, New Mexico one morning years ago, and it just became one of my favorite photos. The first one that I landed on is actually the cover of the book. So I was like, ‘It's really hard to look ahead right now, but I can look back.’ The book actually started with going through my phone's camera roll and just looking at different chapters in my life in different moments. I was like, ‘What am I going to write about?’ Because I said yes to this before I knew that the whole world was going to shut down. Morgan made headlines revealing in a heartfelt post that she was diagnosed with autism at the age of 31 years old after being misdiagnosed and told by previous doctors that she was “perfectly normal.” But after seeing a Tik Tok video describing autism symptoms, Morgan was compelled to advocate for herself and seek help again. Her personal story and long journey were featured in PEOPLE Magazine. With over a million followers on Instagram, who prominently include the likes of Jennifer Garner, Reese Witherspoon, Jay Shetty, Rainn Wilson, Chrissy Metz, Michelle Williams, Elizabeth Gilbert, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and The Michelle Obama Foundation, Morgan inspires a generation to reclaim moments of brokenness and division and re-envision them as unity, hope, and self-love. Despite the hurt, division, and pain this past year has brought to so many people, Nichols encourages us to look at these moments in another way - with hope for how far we’ve come.” -POPSUGARĪcclaimed poet, visual artist, musician and best-selling author Morgan Harper Nichols released her new book How Far You Have Come: Musings on Beauty and Courage. “If you like her bite-size poetry pieces, then you’ll love her latest book, which includes a collection of illustrated poems and essays that focus on a familiar route that she’s traveled along the southern border of the US.

How Far You Have Come by Morgan Harper Nichols