Holding on Loosely: Opening My Hands, Lightening My Load, and Seeing Something Else

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 so...