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Laura Henshaw

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2668 total appearances

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

And I think because I was so overcome by the fact that I felt jet lagged, I then for a moment forgot that I was about to be in the same room as the Michelle Obama.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

And I literally had goosebumps.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

I was like, I can't believe that I'm going to be like, you know, however many meters from Michelle Obama.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

Wow.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

Wow.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

She was fantastic.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

Now, I loved her book Becoming.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

She actually has released another book recently.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

It's got light in the title.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

I should know the name.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

The Light We Carry.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

That book has come out more recently.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

I want to read it.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

I haven't read it yet, but it will be another book that I put on my pile of 25 books that I thought I could read postpartum.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

I've only read one.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

True, true.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

Anyway, now, she's had an amazing life story and something that Michelle often brings up in her talks and when she goes on podcasts or whatever it might be is – and she actually says why because it's very important that she shows people what they can achieve –

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

she says with hard work and determination is, and believing in yourself, is she did not come from a privileged upbringing.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

Like she grew up in a very lower class family.

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Laura’s honest check in about mental health & comparison

And the fact that, and so did her husband, Barack Obama, who obviously became the President of the United States, which is just incredible.