by <\/span><\/span>DANA KNOX WRIGHT<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Genre: Narrative Nonfiction \/ Memoir \/ Self Help<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publisher: Carpenter’s Son \/ Clovercroft Publishing<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Date of Publication: August 24, 2021<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Number of Pages: 208 pages\u202f<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In HOLDING ON LOOSELY: Opening My Hands, Lightening My Load, and Seeing Something Else<\/em>, 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\u2019s ideas, when she didn\u2019t trust her own. She held on to prejudice when she would tell you she didn\u2019t. She shut down for days while clinging to fear. She clung to youthfulness as if what would come next couldn\u2019t be her life\u2019s cherry on top. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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\u2019 example. This is one woman\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n CLICK TO PURCHASE!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u2502 Amazon<\/a>\u2502 <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Add to Goodreads<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u25c6\u202f\u202fWEBSITE<\/a>\u202f\u25c6 FACEBOOK<\/a>\u202f \u25c6\u202f<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u25c6\u202f INSTAGRAM <\/a>\u25c6 YOUTUBE<\/a>\u25c6\u202f<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click the blogs for direct links to special features & reviews. <\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/field\/image\/cover_hi_res_holding_on_loosely_1.jpg\")
ABOUT THE BOOK: <\/strong>Helicopter parents. Control freaks. Perfectionists. Intolerants. Over-consumers. Social media junkies. We all fit in there somewhere. Read one woman\u2019s stories of clinging, turning loose, and becoming free. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/field\/image\/author_photo_wright.jpg\")
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: <\/strong>Dana Knox Wright began letting go of fear at fifty. It\u2019s the decade where, in an odd twist, Sandra Bullock asked for her autograph\u2014the 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 <\/em>(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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/LoneStarBookBlogTours_6.png\")
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