The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama Review & Free PDF 2022
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?
Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles—the earned wisdom that helps her continue to “become.” She details her most valuable practices, like “starting kind,” “going high,” and assembling a “kitchen table” of trusted friends and mentors. With trademark humor, candor, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in the community, and live with boldness.
“When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it,” writes Michelle Obama. A rewarding blend of powerful stories and profound advice that will ignite conversation, The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world.
01. Hey there! I just read Michelle Obama's latest book!!
Former First Lady Michelle Obama offers readers a compilation of original stories and insightful remarks on change, difficulties, and power in this wonderful book.
She also emphasizes her conviction that by shining a light on others, we may disclose the depth and potential of the world, uncovering deeper truths and creating new opportunities for growth.
I have captured my favorite insights which you can listen to now by heading to my podcast: Philosopher Insights - available on your favorite podcast app.
Check out the clip below which focuses on one of my favorite insights from the book - When They Go LOW, We Go HIGH!.
02. Michelle Obama’s Becoming and was keen to read her latest book:
“The Light We Carry is a reminder of precisely this — especially to girls and young women, from none other than a former First Lady of the United States.
Michelle Obama writes a motivational book this time, about growing up in a “double minority” and being judged for how she looked and not for what she could do.
She also writes about her father, who had multiple sclerosis and grew increasingly disabled, but who never wallowed and was always cheerful.
Obama urges those who fall, to pick up and go again, and to always stay high when people go low. She also puts readers in her shoes and offers her own strategies for overcoming fear, and self-doubt — such as when she first had to speak to a large gathering at the Democratic National Convention. This is a book I’ll definitely recommend forward to my teen girls and their peers.
3.5⭐️”
“Each of us carries a bit of inner brightness, something entirely unique and individual, a flame that’s worth protecting.” — Michelle Obama
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