#BookReview – Limitless by Mallory Weggemann

The Power Of Hope And Resilience To Overcome Circumstance

Paralympic Gold Medalist

Description

The Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports commentator uses her extraordinary story to equip others to meet whatever challenges they face in life.

On January 21, 2008, a routine medical procedure left Mallory Weggemann paralyzed from her waist down. Less than two years later, Mallory had broken eight world records, and by the 2012 Paralympic Games, she held fifteen world records and thirty-four American records. Two years later a devastating fall severely damaged her left arm, yet Mallory refused to give up. After two reconstructive surgeries and extended rehab, she won two golds and a silver at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships. And perhaps most significantly, she found confidence, independence, and persevering love as she walked down the aisle on her wedding day.

Mallory’s extraordinary resilience and uncompromising commitment to excellence are rooted in her resolve, perseverance, and sheer grit. In this remarkable new book, Mallory shares the lessons she learned by pushing past every obstacle, expectation, and limitation that stood in her way, including the need to:

• redefine limitations;
• remember that healing is not chronological;
• be willing to fail;
• and embrace your comeback.

Mallory’s story reminds us that whatever circumstances we face, we have the capacity to face down whatever challenges, labels, or difficulties confront us–and to do so on our own terms.

Details

• Rating: ☆☆☆☆
• Title: Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance
• Author: Mallory Weggemann with Tiffany Yecke Brooks
• Genre: Non-fiction, Memoir
• Audience: Adult
• Length: 272 pages
• Publisher:  Thomas Nelson 
• Release Date: March 2, 2021

Purchase Links

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My Thoughts

This is an extraordinary story about a woman who has a very hard choice to make. To live life or give up. And in my way of thinking, this wouldn’t be all that simple to decide if you were a vibrant teenager who suddenly found yourself paralyzed.

But in time, and I mean a very short time, Mallory makes that choice. She takes risks that I know full well I wouldn’t have been able to do. She doesn’t slowly reach for life, she goes after it with gusto.

I feel so happy that she was willing to share her journey. By doing so she has infused all of us with a touch of her limitless attitude.

You will discover hope and resilience not only in Mallory’s story of horror and recovery but that of her family, who displays love and support in an incredible way.

My Concerns

No Concerns at all

My Conclusion

This is a wonderful book that offers something for everyone. It’s filled with Mallory’s survival attitude, as well as tidbits of wisdom. Limitless should give us all the nudge to search and hold on to what we have in life and not zero in on what is missing.

Highly recommended.

My thanks to TLC Publishing for a copy of this book and the ability to post my opinion of it.

Rating

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

About Mallory Weggemann

Mallory Weggemann is a record-setting, two-time Paralympic swimmer for Team USA. She has set fifteen world records and thirty-four American records, and is also the recipient of an ESPY Award, a 15-time World Champion, and a Paralympic gold and bronze medalist. Weggemann has also served as a commentator on NBC for the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Games, the first female reporter in a wheelchair ever to serve in that capacity. Weggemann has established herself as a leader outside of the pool, as well; she is an inclusion advocate serving on the Advisory Board of Disability for Delta Air Lines as well as a cofounder and co-CEO of TFA Group, a social impact agency and production studio. A highly sought-after motivational speaker, Weggemann has presented at numerous Fortune 500 companies, including Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Comcast, PepsiCo, Northwestern Mutual, Aetna, Accenture, and Delta Air Lines.

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