Reviewing Warrior Chicks

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.