AFM: Tell me about the two books that you wrote before 'Space of Love.'

GN: So, the first one came out in 2006. That one is called, “It’s All About Attitude.” That one I actually wrote with a friend. She lives in Florida and her son has autism, and he’s actually the same age as my son. We both liked writing and we had both written articles. And we just one day said, ‘Let’s write a book.’ The essence of that [the book] was that your attitude really determines your experience and it was sort of supposed to serve as a guide of how to have a better attitude. It was made up of our personal stories and it was also the story of our friendship.

Then in 2010, I wrote another book and it was basically the same format. It was made up of short, personal stories and it was called, ‘Breathe.’ And that one was based on 52 oxygen-rich tools for loving and living well with autism. It was a response to people who understood from the first book that it was important to change your attitude, but who didn’t really know how exactly to do that.

AFM: You mentioned that your second book, “Breathe,” was sort of a response to critics of your first book. Was your newest book, “Space of Love,” a response to your first two books? Or was it an entity of its own?

GN: It is a thing of its own but in a way. I’ve learned about things that are so much more powerful and deeper than anything that I explored in my first two books, so it was more about sharing that. I didn’t think that I was going to write any more books. But I had seen some things in my life coach training—personally, and in working with other people—that really helped me to understand some big things. I just thought, ‘If somebody had told me this in the very beginning, it would have made such a difference for me.’

AFM: What is something that you would really like readers to take away from this book?

GN: All of the stories in this book are about autism. But the power of thought and wisdom is sort of like the thread that’s in there really strongly, and that I wanted people to see that this goes beyond autism. So, one thing is that when people start to understand, just even a tiny bit, of where there experience really comes from, it can change their world. People often think that their experience comes from outside. What I’m saying in this book, is that that’s not actually how human beings work. And this isn’t the world according to me, this comes from elsewhere. There’s something that happens in between these experiences, and that’s thought. Thought is what makes our experience and creates our feelings. It’s really difficult, if not next-to-impossible to control your thoughts. So, if we don’t take our thoughts too seriously or get hung up on them, we can let them flow. Thought is always in motion because it’s an energy. If people could just a glimpse of the fact that their experience comes from inside out, rather than outside in, then they’re not a victim anymore.

The other thing that I’d really like people to take away from this book is wisdom. We, as humans, are kind of plugged into a source. It’s a source that powers our wisdom and our intuition. It’s very powerful and it’s very underused. We instinctually panic when we think we don’t know something. But we have wisdom on our side. It’s always there, we just don’t always hear it or notice it because our heads are full of so many other thoughts. If people can begin to see that they have access to that, it will transform their lives.

For more information on Nobel and her new book, visit her official website.