Warrior Chicks: Rising strong when life wants to take you
down
By Holly Wagner
Life is hard.
Sometimes it’s big events—cancer, a death in the family, divorce—other times
it’s the day-to-day living. Whether it’s
one big thing or a hundred small things, sometimes it seems like life truly
does want to take us down. And then we
have two choices: go down or rise strong.
Wagner, founder of the GodChick ministry, wrote Warrior Chicks several years ago in
response to her own personal journey through one of life’s big events. Revell re-released the book this year, and
this was my first experience with it.
After 18 months of “big events” in my own life, coupled with
the day-to-day living of working nearly full time, trying to pursue my own
dreams in life, being a wife to an employee and grad student and a mother to
three girls—the oldest with anxiety, the middle with a sensory processing
disorder, and the youngest full of extreme stubbornness—and selling our house
and moving into another, I am both exhausted and feeling down for the count. In that frame of mind, I was excited to get
this book and fought for time to sit down and read it. In some ways I wasn’t disappointed. In others, I feel a bit let down.
Warrior Chicks is
written in what I call “blog” format. The
paragraphs are mostly one to two sentences long. Wagner includes in them motivational thoughts
and words but not a lot of new information.
It really seems more like a speech or a rallying cry and less like tips
or support in how to actually rise strong.
It provides you with the want to
and the inspiration but not the training you might need, though Wagner
does address the need for this physical, emotional, and spiritual training. For me, the format was difficult to get
through. When I could finally look past
that, I did finish the book feeling inspired.
The cover of the book has boxing gloves (pink, of
course). Warrior Chicks isn’t going to be the daily training a boxer needs
to make it into the ring or the muscles and body building required, but it will
be the pep talk in the corner after each round to get you back out there, ready
to keep fighting.
Disclosure: I was given this book free by Revell Reads Blog
Tour Program. The opinions I have
expressed are my own, and I was not required to write a positive review. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal
Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255.
