Hello dear Readers,
Below my book review of Untamed by Glennon Doyle.
Title: Untamed
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Genre: Memoir/Self Help
Author: Glennon Doyle
Publisher: The Dial Press
Publication Date: March 10, 2020
Publication Date: March 10, 2020
Language: English
Book Description
This is how you find yourself.
There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. 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.
For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own 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 she soon realized they had come to her from within. This was her own voice—the one she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions, cultural conditioning, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl she had been before the world told her who to be. Glennon decided to quit abandoning herself and to instead abandon the world’s expectations of her. She quit being good so she could be free. She quit pleasing and started living.
Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing 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 the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family depends not on its structure but on each member’s ability to bring her full self to the table. 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.
Untamed shows us how to be brave. As Glennon insists: The braver we are, the luckier we get.
My Thoughts
I have never read a book like Glennon Doyle's Untamed.
It is a book that makes you stop for a moment, be still, and think how you have been living your entire life. All the things that you learn and acquire your whole life, what they really mean.
All the feelings, and thoughts and behaviours. All the circumstances, the pain, the patterns we follow because that is what we have been thought is the right thing to do, the correct way to live our lives. But also the joy, happiness and satisfaction that comes with living, with being present, with fighting for your beautiful, as she calls it. For finding yourself.
Untamed, is an eye-opening book, and also an opportunity to find yourself in a world where we are told who we are supposed to be, what we are supposed to be.
"I can't imagine a greater tragedy than remaining forever unknown to myself. That could the ultimate self-abandonment."
"What we believe, we become."
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