In an inspiring follow-up to her critically accled, #1
bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama
shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying
hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.
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
inful 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 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 #1 NEW YORK TIMES
AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF
2022 • In an inspiring follow-up to her critically accled, #1
bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama
shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying
hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.
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
inful 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 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.