The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Michelle Obama

Nov 2022 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Michelle Obama

About this audiobook

2024 Grammy® Award Winner • #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed 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 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 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.

Ratings and reviews

I love listening to Michelle Obama narrate her books. I for the most part enjoyed this book very much. I loved all the reference to her learning to knit. As a knitter, I could identify with all she said. Knitting does center me too. It is amazing that the simple act of the hands calms the mind and allows us to process our thoughts and feelings in a different way. Michelle states that there is no set formula for dealing with life's difficulties but she does share what she calls her personal toolb

Mostly this article audiobook is mostly pure lies that Michelle Obama hates America and he is man is not a woman does not bring any light to carry he only brings darkness to destroy America.

I read the sample and I absolutely love it!! I bought it. I don't know why some commented on it as being "trash", "don't spend your money on this", etc. It speaks to the reality of life and life's challenges and experiences and how those experiences helps to define you as you grow into adulthood. If this book reminds you of your own life challenges and experiences which you didn't like, then this book should help you learn to move past them to a more positive and fulfilling future. Read it with and open mind and don't focus on the author, which is probably why she got 1 star from some people.

About the author

Michelle Obama served as First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Mrs. Obama started her career as an attorney at the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin, where she met her future husband, Barack Obama. She later worked in the Chicago mayor’s office, at the University of Chicago, and at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Mrs. Obama also founded the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, an organization that prepares young people for careers in public service. She is the author of the #1 global bestseller Becoming and the #1 national bestseller American Grown. The Obamas currently live in Washington, D.C., and have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.