Promotional banner for Space To Exhale Awards & Recognition featuring award-winning author Lisa Hurley, the Space To Exhale book cover, and literary honors including Anthem Awards, NorthAwmrican Book Awards, Nonfiction Authors Association Gold Award.

Space To Exhale Awards & Recognition

Celebrating an award-winning book on rest, healing, burnout recovery, and soft living.

Space To Exhale: A Handbook for Curating a Soft, Centered, Serene Life by Lisa Hurley has been recognized by multiple literary, social impact, and nonfiction award programs for its contribution to conversations about rest, emotional wellness, burnout recovery, self-care, and soft living.

Published by Wiley, Space To Exhale offers readers a gentle yet powerful invitation to pause, breathe, reflect, and create a life with more peace, presence, and room to exhale. This recognition reflects the heart of the book: helping readers, especially Black women and other overwhelmed people, move beyond survival mode and reconnect with themselves.

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Featured Recognition

  • Promotional graphic for Space To Exhale by Lisa Hurley with the book cover at top right and two Anthem Awards badges centered. Caption: “Winner, Gold Anthem Award: Anthem Community Voice and Bronze Anthem Award, DEI Book.”

    The Anthem Awards

    Gold Anthem Award: Anthem Community Voice

    Bronze Anthem Award: DEI Book

    Space To Exhale received both a Gold Community Voice Award and a Bronze Anthem Award, honoring work that advances purpose, impact, equity, and meaningful social change. This recognition affirms the book’s role in expanding conversations about rest, healing, burnout recovery, and emotional wellbeing.

  • Promotional graphic for Space To Exhale by Lisa Hurley with the book cover top right and a gold Literary Global Book Awards winner emblem centered. Caption: “Winner, Best Début Non-Fiction.”

    Literary Global Book Awards

    Winner, Best Début Nonfiction

    Space To Exhale was named Winner for Best Début Nonfiction by the Literary Global Book Awards. This honor recognizes the book’s powerful arrival as Lisa Hurley’s first traditionally published work and its impact as a guide for readers seeking a softer, more centered life.

  • Promotional graphic for Space To Exhale by Lisa Hurley with the book cover top right and a bronze North American Book Awards medallion centered. Caption: “Winner, Bronze Medal: Inspirational Nonfiction.”

    North American Book Awards

    Bronze Medal, Inspirational Nonfiction

    Space To Exhale received a Bronze Medal in Inspirational Nonfiction from the North American Book Awards. This award celebrates the book’s ability to inspire reflection, healing, self-trust, and personal transformation.

  • Promotional graphic for Space To Exhale by Lisa Hurley with the book cover top right and a large gold Nonfiction Book Awards “Gold Winner” seal centered. Caption: “Winner, Gold Award: Self-Help.”

    Nonfiction Authors Association Book Awards

    Gold Award, Self Help

    Space To Exhale received the Gold Award in the Self-Help category from the Nonfiction Authors Association, recognizing the book's excellence in helping readers navigate burnout, embrace rest, and create lives rooted in greater peace, self-awareness, and wellbeing.

Additional Honors

  • Promotional graphic for Space To Exhale by Lisa Hurley with the book cover top right and a black-and-white Non-Obvious Book Award badge centered. Caption: “List Honoree, 2025 Book Trend (Take A Break).”

    Non-Obvious Book Awards

    Honoree, 2025 Book Trend: Take a Break List

  • Promotional graphic for Space To Exhale by Lisa Hurley with the book cover in the top right and two American Writing Awards 2025 “Finalist” seals near the bottom. Caption reads: “Finalist, Best New (Début) Non-Fiction and General Nonfiction.”

    American Writing Awards

    Finalist, Best New (Début) Non-Fiction, and Non-Fiction (General)

  • Promotional graphic for Space To Exhale by Lisa Hurley with the book cover top right and a bronze North American Book Awards medallion centered. Caption: “Winner, Bronze Medal: Inspirational Nonfiction.”

    North American Book Awards

    Bronze Medal, Inspirational Nonfiction

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