Untamed #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick by Glennon Doyle

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In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us.

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. 

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Review

Some books shake you by the shoulders while others steal your heart. In Untamed, Glennon does both at the exact same time: Wake up. I love you.

, Brené Brown, PhD, author of the NYT #1 bestseller Dare to Lead

Untamed will liberate women - emotionally, spiritually, and physically. It is phenomenal., Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love

This book will give you the courage to change your ways /quit your job / move away / cut *that* person out of your life or [insert any huge scary change], Emma Gannon, author of The Multi-Hyphen Method

If you’ve ever said yes when your heart screamed no. If you’ve ever felt you were living in a box of someone else’s making. If you’ve ever wondered “what if...?”, Glennon Doyle’s Untamed will answer the questions you didn’t know you’d asked. I can’t stop thinking about it., Sam Baker, author of The Shift

A brilliant memoir-slash-essay collection about what it means to be a fully realised woman, Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail

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Product details

Paperback: 352 pages

Publisher: Vermilion (12 Mar. 2020)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1785043358

ISBN-13: 978-1785043352

Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm

Customer reviews: 4.9 out of 5 stars 535 customer ratings

About the Author

Glennon Doyle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior, an Oprah’s Book Club selection, as well as the New York Times bestseller Carry On, Warrior. An activist, speaker and thought leader, she is also the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women led nonprofit organisation that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropy, raising over US$20 million for women, families and children in crisis, with a most frequent donation of just US$25. Glennon was named among OWN Network’s SuperSoul 100 inaugural group as one of 100 'awakened leaders who are using their voices and talent to elevate humanity.' She lives in Florida with her wife and three children.