Untamed: Reese's Book Club
Books | Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
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Glennon Doyle
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD! “Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick)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.“Untamed will liberate women—emotionally, spiritually, and physically. It is phenomenal.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat Pray LoveA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Bloomberg, Parade 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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Author
Glennon Doyle
Pages
352
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published Date
2020-03-10
ISBN
1984801260 9781984801265
Ratings
Google: 5
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"This is my new favorite book of 2020. I was telling my friend, this book is for everyone, but also, you HAVE to be open to it’s message. If you are caught in the rat race of life, floating through and never question anything, than I’m sorry but there is a better way. This book explains it. I just hope you go into it with an open mind and it will help guide you to change your life and the way you think. Phenomenal book. "
"There are some chapters in this book that had me like WOAH. It was a super easy read with short story chapters. One of my biggest takeaways was learning to listen to your “knowing” (your intuition) and that being brave means being true to that knowing.
Would recommend to a friend that needs to find her strength. "
"I really enjoyed this book more than I typically like non fiction. I liked all of the lessons and general thoughtfulness of the chapters. It was easy to read with short, digestible chapters. My only complaint was that each chapter seemed so random. The timeline and topics weren’t consistent or organized at all. 4⭐️"
""Untamed" by Glennon Doyle is a soul-stirring masterpiece that's an absolute must-read for women, particularly those traversing the fruition years of adulthood. With a gentle yet resolute voice, Doyle urges us to reclaim our authentic selves, encouraging self-care and self-discovery as the ultimate act of empowerment. It's a heartfelt guide that reminds us to fill our own cups before pouring into others, igniting a transformative journey towards embracing our truest selves. "Untamed" is a beacon of inspiration, a book that invites us to break free from societal constraints and forge our own paths, leaving behind a trail of empowerment and self-love."
"The book I didn’t know I needed so badly to read until I did"
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