Who were you before the world told you who to be? When women learn to please they forget who they are.
It is also the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honour our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts..
It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live.
Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanising wake-up call.
She stopped pleasing and started living.
She stopped being good so she could be free.
Glennon decided to stop abandoning herself and to instead abandon the world's expectations of her.
This was the voice of the girl she had been before the world told her who to be.
This was her own voice - the one she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions, cultural conditioning and institutional allegiances.
But she soon realised they had come to her from within.
At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high.
Three words flooded her mind- There She Is.
Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love.
For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent.
We look at our lives and wonder- Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent - even from ourselves.
Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed and underwhelmed.
We hope all this striving will make us feel alive.
We strive so mightily to be good- good partners, daughters, mothers, employees and friends.
I love you.' - Brene Brown, PhD, author of the NYT #1 bestseller Dare to Lead There is a voice of longing inside each woman.
In Untamed, Glennon does both at the exact same time- Wake up. '
Some books shake you by the shoulders while others steal your heart.
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author, speaker and activist Glennon Doyle.
Part inspiration, part memoir Untamed explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and instead dare to listen to and trust in the voice deep inside us.
Who were you before the world told you who to be? When women learn to please they forget who they are
