“It is strange to think that I could have changed the course of history with my fear,” writes Michelle Obama in her new book, “The Light That Illuminates Us — Overcoming Uncertain Times” (Objectiva, November 2022), where she reveals that in In 2006, Barak put in his hands the decision to run for the presidency of the United States of America. The idea of venturing into the political sphere left her “terrified” to the point that she was very close to preventing her husband from being president.
“I’m not one to jump or fly… the pace was too fast, the height too dizzying, the exposure too great,” he continues, attributing his “fearful mind” as the source of all his fears. Fortunately, he managed to silence those fears in time and Barak Obama ended up becoming the first African-American president of the US, having served from 2009 to 2017.
Despite being loaded with advice and mechanisms to face times of crisis, this third book by the former first lady is not exactly a self-help guide, as she writes in the introduction, but rather “a series of honest reflections on what my life has taught me so far???????? In it, he also shares his “personal toolbox” for dealing with stress, fear, and anxiety.
Focusing on small tasks such as knitting, for example, was one of those tools to deal with the uncertainty of pandemic times combined with the racial crisis in the United States, at the heart of which was the outbreak of the Black Lives Matter social movement. The hobby, he reveals, he learned by watching videos on YouTube.
“The interesting thing about knitting and using your hands to make something is that it’s meditative,” Obama said in a conversation with Elle DeGeneres on Tuesday night onstage at the Warner Theater in Washington. The dialogue, quoted by the Associated Press, served as the kickoff to a tour that will take her to six North American cities. It is followed by Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.????????
In Portugal, it was published by Objectiveva.
Some of the revelations made by Michelle Obama include your taste for drinking martinisthe challenges of raising two Generation Z daughters, the times she started dating Barak after they met at a law firm, and her husband’s passion for golf.
In “The Light That Illuminates — Overcoming Uncertain Times,” the former first lady also recounts that her two daughters, Malia, 24, and Sasha, 21, live away from their parents, but together, in a rented apartment in The Angels. .
Source: Observadora
