The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Michelle Obama is always so real and transparent. Excellent book!

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From The Girlfriend Gathering Bookclub: We love that Michelle comes from an everyday background - she’s just like us and so relatable. Don’t read this book because she’s the former First Lady, read it because she’s human. It was a collection of intimate stories from her life with great lessons intertwined in each chapter. She knitted it all together just like she knitted a beautiful scarf or sweater for people in her life. She reminded us that even when the world seems like a dark place that we should lean into what makes each of us special because it is the light that we carry that will help us find our way back to what matters most. Highly recommended!

I love the Obama pair. They represent for me a cultural shift in our generation of what power couple can be and what love of democracy is. This book reads like a memoir. I am not one to step into the self help trade books section but I am at a crossroads and I know that in her much larger way so is Michelle Obama. I find her approach to the spoken word to be powerful and with that I opened myself to her book. She walks the reader through her continuing journey of self empowerment and I feel that I am sitting in the first meeting of her support group only becoming aware of my own self awareness or lack of! She is clear that she is not trying to tell anyone how to do it. It being life. She shares her experiences and her take on how she manages life's tricky ways of being life, how she processes the challenges and lives with the outcomes and moves forwards. I felt for me, she opened up doors in my own mindfulness and challenges me to think about ways I am confronting and owning my life's choices and path. She writes with passion and you can hear her narrating the words off the pages. She talks like she is speaking to a friend or a group of people she cares about. She speaks from the heart and is careful to share perspective with her own struggles and wins. Her chapter on her mother was a gift to everyone that still has mom in their life. This was an inspirational read without giving concrete guidance with to do steps, but instead cheering us on . We got this!

Based on its reviews, I'm sure this book resonates with many... just not me. Maybe I'll pick it back up in the future, but for now, it's a DNF.