It was then that she discovered that her life lifelong lesson was to listen to her inner voice more and stop being a people pleaser or silencing her problems. That’s when things really take a turn and you can discover your true calling. Lesson 3: Knowing and accepting pain is the purest form of authenticity and self-love. This book was just what I needed to hear and read right now. The last hour of the book I was crying. Where to start with the powerful map to deeply loving yourself. She says so many things that went right to my heart and are what I need to hear. How she learned about love with oneself and with a partner was also an act of bravery. I am so grateful for all Glennon shared here and how much it taught me. I am guilty of having expectations about life and I think she is saying, you can only depend on the next clue or the next thing the small inside voice says. That is the easiest thing to forget. I still have so many lessons to learn and I hope one day I too can be a love warrior and I will be able to have a beloved in my life. We print all our quality posters in Sweden. We print on a luxury fine art 240 gsm uncoated premium paper. The paper has a matte finish to guarantee the highest printing quality, after all it is all about quality. Our paper is FSCcertified and age resistant. Our print house is environmentally certified according to ISO 14001. It also is Svanencertified. As a result of this, our customers can feel they have contributed to the environment in a good way. You can read more about our sustainability program here.

Maran, Meredith (March 24, 2021). "Glennon Doyle doesn't work alone: The 'Untamed' author and agent Margaret Riley King discuss their creative process". The Washington Post. What could be worse? Nothing, she finds. Without anything to lose, she starts to finally listen to her inner voice that she’s been shutting down her entire life. She starts writing, and it sets her heart free. Expressing her thoughts gained her online virality, although this wasn’t her aim. But the real story is how, after years of running from herself, from showing only her “representative” to her world, not her “real” self, she realizes that’s not enough. This is her story of her journey to find her authentic self. The process she has to go through before she can even accept responsibility for her part in what remains. This is the part of this personal story that felt worthwhile to read, to me. Kramer, Jillian (October 2, 2019). "How Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle Built a Happy, Modern Marriage on Their Terms". Glamour . Retrieved January 28, 2020. Glennon Doyle was just another girl in college trying to fit in. She had a problem with her image and often fell for social standards when it came to choosing health over appearances. Like many of us, she ignored her problems in the hope they would go away – but they didn’t.How a marital crisis became a catalyst for a painful but ultimately enlightening journey into the depths of the human heart. Melton: I met my future husband when I was 19 years old. We dated for a while before getting married and having our first child together. My family threatened that if I continued drinking they would not be involved in my life anymore because of the damage it was causing me and my family members. After going through several pregnancies, Melton finally got sober after she had an abortion due to depression caused by alcoholism. Her sister took her to her first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where she decided to make changes in her life and quit drinking alcohol altogether.

Right. She has written three books – the other two being Carry On, Warrior and Love Warrior – and founded a non-profit organisation called Together Rising, which serves to “transform collective heartbreak into effective action”.

Overall Summary

Within the first couple of chapters, I thought to myself, wow, this woman is tremendously screwed up. She makes all my little gremlins and me feel more than normal and really of sound character. Her self talk and things she hides behind are incredible. Bulimia by age 10, alcoholism, cocaine, by the age of 25. And she is very sharing about her thoughts - on all levels. She calls it being true to herself, I call it overshare. (But I was curious as to how she was going to finish the book, so that is where my readability score comes from, and clearly she can write.)

She also found out that he’s been cheating in between her three pregnancies. After a somewhat peaceful time in her life after thinking that she fully overcame bulimia and her alcohol addiction, this devastating news arises. But then I would get to a part in the book that talked about grief and it consumed me. I felt like she was speaking directly to me. In a two-year span of my life, my brother and Dad both died in tragic and devastating ways. She was describing exactly what I went through at that time in my life. Accepting pain can be liberating: by owning all parts of yourself—even those parts that are painful—you become free from worry about what others think or feel about your behavior. This is when you feel free to share your vulnerability, just like Glennon did in her memoirs on her blog.Ten years into her marriage, Glennon Doyle Melton learns a devastating truth that leads her to the brink of divorce. But instead of bolting from the pain or drowning in her grief, she chooses to listen to the still, small voice inside her that urges her to find the gift in this crisis. Glennon decides to welcome the pain, to see it through and discover what it has to teach her.