For Michelle Obama, the spread of the COVID-19 virus and subsequent quarantine left her feeling lost, hopeless and afraid. That struggle led her down a path of reflection and also sparked a question: When the world feels so dark, how do you find and protect your own light? That became the premise for The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, which Obama wrote during quarantine. For the final stop of her book tour, Obama sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss these methods, and in The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, the former First Lady shares stories and extraordinarily vulnerable insights about her childhood, her marriage, aging, friendships and more. She also explores a valuable, difficult lesson that everyone has to learn, and one that her beloved father instilled within her from childhood: The light you carry inside of you can’t be, and will never be, dependent on anyone else. In other words, the job of finding and protecting your light is yours and yours alone, and you owe it to yourself to figure out how to stay shining.