Holding On Loosely by Dana Knox Wright – Book Blog Tour

I’ve had a lot of things swirling around in my life lately and it’s forced me to take a break from book reviews. Sometimes, though, the books on tour with Lone Star Book Blog Tours seem to appear just when I need them (and I purchased my own copy of this one because the synopsis SPOKE to me). Is it coincidence or just simple good timing? I’m not sure, honestly, but with all the chaos happening, I’m just holding things together (kind of, maybe), and so Dana Knox Wright’s newest book Holding On Loosely feels like it was meant for control freak/Type A/struggling perfectionist me – particularly with my oldest in the middle of his college search.

So read on to learn a little more about this book which is part memoir/part self-help, check out the authors top eight favorite quotes from the book, and enter the giveaway for a chance to win your own copy along with some pretty sweet swag!

HOLDING ON LOOSELY
by
DANA KNOX WRIGHT

Genre: Narrative Nonfiction / Memoir / Self Help
Publisher: Carpenter’s Son / Clovercroft Publishing
Date of Publication: August 24, 2021
Number of Pages: 208 pages 

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SYNOPSIS

Helicopter parents. Control freaks. Perfectionists. Intolerants. Over-consumers. Social media junkies. We all fit in there somewhere. Read one woman’s stories of clinging, turning loose, and becoming free. 

We are overly busy helicopter parents, control freaks, perfectionists, intolerants, over-consumers and social media junkies–who worry, fear, laugh less, and always want more. In the midst of it, we wonder what it would feel like to open our hands and turn loose of all of it.

 In HOLDING ON LOOSELY: Opening My Hands, Lightening My Load, and Seeing Something Else, author Dana Knox Wright tells stories of one who is hardwired to cling.  To her children when they asked for a blessing to go.  To someone else’s ideas, when she didn’t trust her own. She held on to prejudice when she would tell you she didn’t. She shut down for days while clinging to fear. She clung to youthfulness as if what would come next couldn’t be her life’s cherry on top. 

In a particular season of her life, she recognized her bent to possess, to keep, to hold tightly, and to control was completely contrary to Jesus’ example. This is one woman’s history of holding on and her stories of turning loose–stories of the gentle and firm, humorous and heartbreaking ways God led her to turn loose.  It is living minimally from the inside out.

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TOP EIGHT LIST

TOP 8 QUOTES FROM HOLDING ON LOOSELY
BY DANA KNOX WRIGHT

1. “Mothering is a hard habit to break.”

2. “God’s steadfastness is in the ink in every line of our stories.”

3. “The world, discovered to be round all those years ago, is actually beginning to flatten out after all.”

4. “Suffering knows no borders and is blind to privilege.”

5. “I know clear as a bell our differences were never meant to divide us.  
They were actually meant to be our super powers.”

6. “To live expectantly rather than expecting turns life into a wonderful surprise revealed a single day at a time.”

7. “What is spoken into us can never fully be extracted from us”.

8. “If we invited people unlike us to sit at the same table and share a meal,
I guarantee it’s where all prejudice would die.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dana Knox Wright began letting go of fear at fifty.  It’s the decade where, in an odd twist, Sandra Bullock asked for her autograph—the decade she began hiking to places with seriously wild animals, rafting in crazy rivers and eating wild blackberries with only mild concern rabid foxes eat from the plants, too. After a long career in radio voiceover, she found a passion for spreading goodness and living to the full. She has offered readers encouragement, hope and sisterhood for almost ten years through her essays published on her blog. Dana holds a degree in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin and is the author of Saving Stories: Afternoons with Darrell (2017). She is the mother of three adult children and three grandchildren and currently lives in a small river town in the Texas Hill Country with her husband and an English Mastiff named Pearl.

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GIVEAWAY! 

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ONE WINNER!

Signed copy of Holding On Loosely, goodie basket,
one overnight stay at the Llano Line Shack.

(US only; ends midnight, CDT, 10/22/21.)

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