Soon she realized that they came to her from within. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. Glennon looked at her and fell instantly in love. Until we reach our boiling point.įour years ago, Glennon Doyle was speaking at a conference when a woman entered the room. We hide our simmering discontent-even from ourselves. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn’t it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. There is a voice of longing inside every woman. She makes me better and I am forever grateful to her for that. I have about a hundred pages earmarked and a thousand lines highlighted, so I can reference her words whenever I need them. She reminds us that it’s okay to be flawed. I have gleaned so much knowledge from this book and have absorbed many of her lessons into my molecules. I feel lucky to call Glennon a friend and mentor-she is a wry chronicler of her experiences, and she doesn’t shy away from talking about the messy moments, ones in which she is not the hero of the story. They chart her experience dealing with societal expectations, finding sobriety, and realizing true love and also provide endless food for thought on themes of integrity, self-fulfillment, motherhood, and feminism. Untamed is divided into short, meditative chapters, with titles like “sparks” and “girl gods” and “sandcastles.” Each chapter is a profoundly honest tale from her life.

This book has been my North Star for being vulnerable and self-examination. Reading Untamed has helped me course correct the uncertainty, fear, and anxiety that I’m constantly fighting. 'You’ll want to refer back to it trust me!' she wrote.Īt the end of her caption, Adele reflected on how Untamed changed her outlook on life.These days, I am clinging to stories of hope as if they are life rafts. Given the revelation-a-page pace of Untamed, Adele had advice for anyone who wants to read it, too: Don't be caught without a highlighter on hand. We are a lot! But we are meant to be a lot!' she wrote. 'Anyone who has any kind of capacity to truly let go and give into yourself with any kind of desire to hold on for dear life - Do it.

Adele described reading Untamed as a literally life-changing experience. More importantly, though, Untamed is a book about one woman listening to her inner voice-and that's what Adele noted in her review.

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