Untamed By Glennon Dyole
“She quit pleasing and started living. Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call
Glennon Doyle, if you haven’t already heard of her, she is an author, activist, speaker, mother and most recently, a woman who reclaimed her wild. In her third self-help memoir, Untamed, Glennon explores the power and peace we discover when we follow our instincts and start living a free, authentic life.
The blurb:
Who were you before the world told you who to be?
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. From the beloved New York Times bestselling author, speaker and activist Glennon Doyle.
For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There. She. Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high but soon she realised they had come to her from within. This was the voice she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions and social conditioning. Glennon decided to let go of the world’s expectations of her and reclaim her true untamed self.
Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanising wake-up call. 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. 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. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is.
If I had to choose one word to sum up this entire book it would be “brave”. Bravery to speak your truth, bravery to express your emotions, and feel them wholly too, bravery to follow your calling, bravery to start anew.
My Reveiw:
I adore non-fiction. I’m fascinated by the human experience and the drive we all have. I like to read peoples journeys especially how they climb out of the holes we dig ourselves in. Glennon Doyle’s memoir ‘Untamed’ is definitely the kind of no-nonsense guide to self-discovery everyone should read once. It unpicks everything we’re taught to believe is the right way to live as women and as mothers, and it shows us another – truer – way to live. In 2021, abandoning other people’s expectations in favour of our truest, most authentic self should be a given but Doyle’s memoir is our literary kick up the butt to stop pleasing and start living. I wasn’t a huge fan of the short entries and vignettes as it felt a little like mammoth subjects didn’t always get the page-time they needed nor deserved but I can see why the structure needed to be as untamed as the very story it held. It’s a beautifully human, intimate and empowering read that’ll feed the fire in your belly from the very first metaphor.
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