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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.

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

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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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“Some books shake you by the shoulder while others steal your heart. In Untamed, Glennon does both at the exact same time.”—Brené Brown

“This memoir is so packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today, what it means to be ‘good,’ and what women will do in order to be loved. I swear I highlighted something in EVERY chapter.”—Reese Witherspoon

“Doyle might just be the patron saint of female empowerment. . . . Here she inspires other women to listen to their intuition and break free of what cages them. . . . Her memoir has a message as clear as a ‘go’ signal: Find and honor your truest self.”—People (Book of the Week)

“Reading Glennon Doyle’s memoir, Untamed, is diving into an adventure of what we can become. We collectively grow stronger as we are more willing to ask hard questions.”—Ms.

“Filled with hopeful messages . . . encourag[ing] women to reject the status quo and follow their intuition . . . This testament to female empowerment and self-love, with an endearing coming-out story at the center, will delight readers.”—Publishers Weekly

“She is a terrific storyteller. . . . Whether discussing her children or the world outside, challenging conformity, confronting misogyny, or standing up to religious bigotry, her goal as a memoirist (and as a person) is to defy expectations and to help others break out of their cultural cages so that everyone can find their own version of humanity. A bracing jolt of honesty from someone who knows what she wants to say and isn’t afraid to say it.”—Booklist (starred review)

“An emotional gut punch . . . an in-depth look at a courageous woman eager to share the wealth of her experiences by embracing vulnerability and reclaiming her inner strength and resiliency. Doyle offers another lucid, inspiring chronicle of female empowerment and the rewards of self-awareness and renewal.”—Kirkus Reviews

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Author, activist, founder of Together Rising, and host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast Glennon Doyle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed, a Reese’s Book Club selection, which has sold over two million copies. She is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior, an Oprah’s Book Club selection, and Carry On, Warrior. An activist and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People), Glennon hosts the We Can Do Hard Things podcast. She is the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women-led nonprofit organization that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropy—raising over $30 million for women, families, and children in crisis. Glennon lives in Florida with her wife and three children.

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Part One

caged

sparks

Four years ago, married to the father of my three children, I fell in love with a woman.

Much later, I watched that woman drive away from my home to meet with my parents and share her plan to propose to me. She thought I didn’t know what was happening that Sunday morning, but I knew.

When I heard her car return, I settled into the couch, opened a book, and tried to slow my pulse. She walked through the door and directly toward me, bent down, kissed my forehead. She pushed my hair aside and took a deep breath of my neck, like she always does. Then she stood up and disappeared into the bedroom. I walked to the kitchen to pour some coffee for her, and when I turned around, she was right there in front of me, down on one knee, holding a ring. Her eyes were certain and pleading, wide and laser focused, sky blue, bottomless.

“I couldn’t wait,” she said. “I just could not wait another minute.”

Later, in bed, I laid my head on her chest while we talked about her morning. She’d told my parents, “I love your daughter and grandchildren like I’ve never loved before. I’ve spent my entire life searching and preparing myself for them. I promise you that I will love and protect them forever.” My mother’s lip quivered with fear and courage as she said, “Abby. I have not seen my daughter this alive since she was ten years old.”

Much else was said that morning, but that first response from my mother jumped out at me like a sentence in a novel begging to be underlined:

I have not seen my daughter this alive since she was ten years old.

My mother watched the spark in my eyes fade during my tenth year on Earth. Now, thirty years later, she was witnessing the return of that spark. In the past few months, my entire posture had changed. I looked regal to her. And a little scary.

After that day, I began to ask myself: Where did my spark go at ten? How had I lost myself?

I’ve done my research and learned this: Ten is when we learn how to be good girls and boys. Ten is when children begin to let go of who they are in order to become what the world expects them to be. Ten is when our formal taming begins.

Ten is when the world sat me down, told me to be quiet, and pointed toward my cages:

These are the feelings you may express.

This is the version of womanhood you will mimic.

This is the body you must strive for.

These are the things you will believe.

These are the people you may love.

Those are the people you will fear.

This is the kind of life you will want.

Make yourself fit. You’ll be uncomfortable at first, but don’t worry—eventually you’ll forget you’re caged. Soon this will just feel like: life.

I wanted to be a good girl, so I tried to control myself. I chose a personality, a body, a faith, and a sexuality so tiny I had to hold my breath to fit myself inside. Then I promptly became very sick.

When I became a good girl, I also became a bulimic. None of us can hold our breath all the time. Bulimia was where I exhaled. It was where I refused to comply, indulged my hunger, and expressed my fury. I became animalistic during my daily binges. Then I’d drape myself over the toilet and purge because a good girl must stay very small to fit inside her cages. She must leave no outward evidence of her hunger. Good girls aren’t hungry, furious, or wild. All of the things that make a woman human are a good girl’s dirty secret.

Back then, I suspected that my bulimia meant that I was crazy. In high school, did a stint in a mental hospital and my suspicion was confirmed.

I understand myself differently now.

I was just a caged girl made for wide-open skies.

I wasn’t crazy. I was a goddamn cheetah.

When I saw Abby, I remembered my wild. I wanted her, and it was the first time I wanted something beyond what I had been trained to want. I loved her, and it was the first time I loved someone beyond those I had been expected to love. Creating a life with her was the first original idea I’d ever had and the first decision I made as a free woman. After thirty years of contorting myself to fit inside someone else’s idea of love, I finally had a love that fit—custom made for me, by me. I’d finally asked myself what I wanted instead of what the world wanted from me. I felt alive. I’d tasted freedom, and I wanted more.

I looked hard at my faith, my friendships, my work, my sexuality, my entire life and asked: How much of this was my idea? Do I truly want any of this, or is this what I was conditioned to want? Which of my beliefs are of my own creation and which were programmed into me? How much of who I’ve become is inherent, and how much was just inherited? How much of the way I look and speak and behave is just how other people have trained me to look and speak and behave? How much of what I’ve spent my life chasing are just dirty pink bunnies? Who was I before I became who the world told me to be?

Over time, I walked away from my cages. I slowly built a new marriage, a new faith, a new worldview, a new purpose, a new family, and a new identity by design instead of default. From my imagination instead of my indoctrination. From my wild instead of from my training.

What follows are stories about how I got caged—and how I got free.

apples

I am ten years old, and I’m sitting in a small room in the back of Nativity Catholic Church with twenty other kids. I am at CCD, where my parents send me on Wednesday nights to learn about God. Our CCD teacher is my classmate’s mom. I do not remember her name, but I do remember that she keeps telling us that she is an accountant during the day. Her family needed service hours, so she volunteered to work in the gift shop. Instead, the church assigned her to room 423, fifth-grade CCD. So now—on Wednesdays between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.—she teaches children about God.

She asks us to sit on the carpet in front of her chair, because she is going to explain to us how God made people. I hurry to get a spot in front. I am very curious about how and why I was made. I notice that our teacher does not have a Bible or any other books in her lap. She is going to speak from memory. I am impressed.

She begins.

“God made Adam and put him in a beautiful garden. Adam was God’s favorite creation, so He told Adam that his only jobs were to be happy, rule over the garden, and name the animals. Adam’s life was almost perfect. Except that he got lonely and stressed. He wanted some company and help naming the animals. So he told God that he wanted a companion and a helper. One night, God helped Adam give birth to Eve. From inside Adam’s body, a woman was born. That is why she is called woman. Because women came from the womb of man. Womb—man.”

I am so amazed that I forget to raise my hand.

“Wait. Adam gave birth to Eve? But don’t people come from women’s bodies? Shouldn’t boys be called woman? Shouldn’t all people be called woman?”

My teacher says, “Raise your hand, Glennon.”

I raise my hand. She motions for me to put it back down. The boy sitting to my left rolls his eyes at me.

Our teacher goes on.

“Adam and Eve were happy, and everything stayed perfect for a while.

“But then God said there was one tree they couldn’t eat from: the Tree of Knowledge. Even though it was the only thing in the entire garden that Eve wasn’t allowed to want, she wanted an apple from that tree anyway. So one day, she got hungry, picked the apple off the tree, and took a bite. Then she tricked Adam into taking a bite, too. As soon as Adam bit into the apple, Eve and Adam felt shame for the first time and tried to hide from God. But God sees everything, so God knew. God banished Adam and Eve from the beautiful garden. Then He cursed them and their future children, and for the first time, suffering existed on the earth. This is why we still suffer today, because Eve’s original sin is inside of all of us. That sin is wanting to know more than we are supposed to know, wanting more instead of being grateful for what we have, and doing what we want to do instead of what we should do.”

That was some careful accounting. I had no further questions.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Dial Press; Later Printing edition (March 10, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984801252
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984801258
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.96 x 1.33 x 8.47 inches

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Glennon Doyle is the CEO and Founder of Treat Media, an award-winning media company that makes art for humans who want to stay human. She is an author, podcaster, producer, and philanthropist. Her books include the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed, which has sold more than three million copies; the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior, an Oprah’s Book Club selection; the New York Times bestseller Carry On, Warrior; and Get Untamed: The Journal. Glennon, named one of the “50 Most Powerful People in Podcasting,” is co-host of the chart-topping podcast We Can Do Hard Things, which has received over a half billion plays. She is an executive producer of the Sundance award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light. Glennon was Founder and President of Together Rising, a nonprofit organization which distributed more than 55 million dollars to women, families and children in crisis. Her most recent book, We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life’s 20 Questions, created with Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle and Treat Media, is being hailed as “the guidebook for being alive.”

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By page 16, I’d already sobbed, laughed, sobbed, reconsidered who I am, how I live my life, and what I’m doing next, and cried again. So much fire lit. This is a masterpiece. Thank the universe (and Glennon) it published now. Lord knows we need this now. It is already one of my top favorite books ever, and I read a lot. Like, a LOT.

She talks about learning to access her own inner Knowing, which I had experienced as a miracle a few times in my life before I learned about this from the Guides in one of my other top books, I Am the Word by Paul Selig (and his other books). But this time I got a deeper, more practical grasp and inspiration around how and why to access that deeper knowing every day. She’s right that it only ever tells you just the next step... Kyle Cease talks about that exactly the same way, too.

I’m also feeling a revolution inside that I was already opening up to take full force... including the revolutionary wild act of feeling it all. Everything. FEELING pain, letting it burn, guide. She says, “I will continue to become only if I resist extinguishing myself a million times a day. If I can sit in the fire of my own feelings, I will keep becoming.“

By page 89, it is 3:41 am, and with my two small children asleep near my bed, I quietly sobbed and sobbed and sobbed, as my heart broke open. As I FELT. I’ve barely cried in years. In decades. I’m usually just trying to disconnect and numb feelings enough to keep going, to fit in, to stay the course, everything is fine. I’m fine.

I’m not fine. Our world is no longer fine.

p115: my husband called me on video chat (we’re thousands of miles apart right now) and he said, “Whoa, you look different. You’re glowing.”

Fire. Burning. Feeling.

p133: Turns out cracking open and feeling all the feelings isn’t just pain. Deep, body shaking joy came to our house today. Car, actually. After a difficult to describe very intense session of 5 people all air-planing our take-out lasagna bites to each other in our parked car and absolutely laughing out assess off this afternoon, my six year old says to me tonight right before bed, “It was so, so nice to hear Mama laughing. I’d say it is better than getting a toy.”

P... somewhere after p 200 some major personal shifts and awakenings occurred... too personal to convey at this time.

P324 I’ve been running from my mother since I left for college. Really since I got a car in high school, and before that when I fell in love with my high school freshman boyfriend, who was also my best friend. I escaped into the safe shelter of his love and caring, laughter and companionship.

And now, at 37 years old, it’s time to stop. Because of this book. I can stop, be with it, with her. To let it burn. To face the pain, the triggers, and let the fire engulf me and burn away what was never real. To tell the truth, and face my mother with an open heart.

I just moved in with my mom last night. I’m literally quarantined in small house with just the two of us and my two small boys (6 and 3). For the first time in my whole life, I am not afraid.

Thank you Glennon. My God... thank you.

I’m now going to click the “beginning” button in my kindle and read it all again.

I’m a little nervous and excited... the wild way my life is cracking open... I have no idea how, maybe I was really ready... this book has immediately and shockingly changed everything, and given me the map for change with truth, freedom and grace. With love.

Yes to the heartbreak. Yes to the pain. Yes to love. Yes to myself and my life untamed, in truth.

I am free.

*Update 6/30/20
I was just reflecting on the lasting ways I have changed since I read this book, and a huge one is being now pretty deeply comfortable being with the full range of my feelings, and also my children’s feelings. From that place, I’m able to help my children feel safe being with and feeling all their very strong emotions and experiences. I can help them let it burn. I can’t protect them from uncomfortable feelings, thank god I don’t need to. I can be present with them as they feel, next to them. I’m here. Feelings are for feeling. We can be curious. We can lean in.

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Such a needed and important book for anyone who has an untamed soul! This is a great feminist work that all humans should read!

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Reading Glennon Doyle's Untamed was a liberating experience that profoundly impacted my journey of self-discovery and sexuality. Doyle's fearless honesty about her own life and the struggles she faced in embracing her true self resonated deeply with me. As a woman navigating my own sexuality, her words felt like a balm, encouraging me to break free from societal expectations and the confines of traditional norms.

Her exploration of love, desire, and the importance of honoring one's feelings is both empowering and validating. I found myself reflecting on my own experiences and realizing how often I had silenced my desires to fit in. Doyle's unapologetic celebration of her sexuality inspired me to embrace my own identity more fully, allowing me to acknowledge and celebrate my desires without shame.

Each chapter is filled with relatable moments that sparked a sense of connection, making me feel understood and seen. Untamed isn't just a memoir; it's a rallying cry for women everywhere to reclaim their power and love themselves fiercely. I can't recommend this book enough for anyone seeking to understand their own sexuality and live authentically. It’s a beautiful journey that will leave you feeling empowered and inspired.

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Melanie Weinstein
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I will start by saying that for the last 3 years, Glennon has been my church and my synagogue. That her work held me and freed me during a painfully difficult time. In one particularly dark time, I would say her work has saved my life. For that, I am forever grateful and deeply inspired, forever and ever.

I thought reading this book would be as sacred and holy an experience as her previous works have been for me. But the truth is: I have changed, Glennon has changed, and this book was a complicated experience.

For me, this book was like eating a meal with an old family member who is a masterful storyteller. The food was ultimately very satisfying and nutritious, and I'll be thinking about the conversation for a long time. There were many uncomfortable moments along the way. Feeling like an old friend, I do feel a little frustrated with Glennon's changing narrative and flagrant fluidity of ideas. Like, her old thing was "first the pain, then the rising." Now it's...something else. Something more nuanced that I can't quite put my finger on. Something even more honest, though leaving me shaken because I relied upon her old ideas in times of difficulty.

It's hard when any leader speaks with great confidence and then when they shift perception, switches with equally strong confidence. I think the word for this is: misleading. And yes, I do feel a bit misled by all versions of past and present and future Glennon after reading this book.

And still - that IS a part of the wisdom of this book. And the challenge. This book, I believe, is meant to direct us into our own inner knowing, instead of latching onto Glennon's.

Which is a little confusing, because so much advice is espoused along the way. Entire letters and monologues of Glennon quoting her own wisdom. Along with the directive to follow our own. Glennon says she has no friends, followed by chapters quoting her friends. In previous books, Glennon used far more heartfelt story, self-deprecating humor and charm to soften this mania. Now that Glennon's voice is so very sure of itself, it makes the inconsistencies in her preaching far harder to swallow. Glennon says in the book with absolute assurance that if we like her less now, it is likely because we don't like strong, joyful, brave women (another one of her theories I've seen her say on NBC). And perhaps that is so. Perhaps it is also so that I want to feel that I can rely on the narrator I am reading.

For those of us who have read all of Glennon's books and watched her online interviews, or turned to her for wisdom over the years as I have - many of these chapters are recycled repeats of her pet theories and ideas. That doesn't make them bad. It just means I felt a little irked, because the book was promised to be some kind of unprecedented new declaration, and I felt myself skimming through a handful of chapters of familiar ideas. For me, it felt like there was a lot of repetition of what I have already heard Glennon say...many, many times.

The last third of the book resonated more deeply for me - especially the final poem, which integrates it all. Glennon's self-proclamation that she is all of the things she has ever said herself to be, undefinable, untamable. Yes and yes and yes. A beautiful and necessary message that left me in tears.

Despite my criticisms, I could not put it down. My book is dog-eared, and there are many pages underlined. Many tears shed. And a new self-recognition emerging. I could not ask for more than that deep and irreplaceable gift.

I absolutely recommend the read, especially if you are new to Glennon's work. For those of us oldies, I want to share that the experience of reading this book showed me how much I have grown, that I am now able to see flaws in a leader I once really looked to for guidance. I feel more ready to be my own Cheetah than before. I feel more ready to look within. I believe that is what Glennon wants, too. So: thank you Glennon for your work in setting us all free.

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Paola
Me ayudó a aceptar algunos cambios importantes en mi vida.
Reviewed in Mexico on October 25, 2024
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Una compañera de trabajo me recomendó Untamed de Glennon Doyle, y debo decir que ha sido un libro revelador, especialmente como mujer en un mundo liderado por hombres. Doyle aborda temas que resonaron profundamente conmigo, sobre cómo muchas veces nos limitamos a nosotras mismas y nos contenemos, siguiendo las expectativas y normas que nos han impuesto. Leer su perspectiva me ha inspirado a mirar dentro de mí misma, a reconocer mi propia voz y a confiar en ella.

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Fantastic book. Ever page I have an "omg! It's not just me!" Moment.... What's motivated me to write this review is the first this that really made me laugh. She talked about how texts are not "IOU's" then she said " at this moment, I have 183 unread texts." lmao absolutely hilarious are such an honest book. I suffer from alcoholism and I have PTSD, all of which I am currently trying to recover from now at 31. This book has seriously helped in my recovery and I recommend every woman to read it.

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Leandra

Life changing book. A must read!

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Fantastic book. Ever page I have an "omg! It's not just me!" Moment.... What's motivated me to write this review is the first this that really made me laugh. She talked about how texts are not "IOU's" then she said " at this moment, I have 183 unread texts." lmao absolutely hilarious are such an honest book. I suffer from alcoholism and I have PTSD, all of which I am currently trying to recover from now at 31. This book has seriously helped in my recovery and I recommend every woman to read it.

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Livro incrível em uma edição linda em capa dura. Chegou em perfeito estado :)

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Ich liebe dieses Buch und habe es auch schon verschenkt. Eine mutmachende Geschichte und eine inspirierende Frau als Autorin. Grenzen sprengen! Mut fassen. Liebe Leben.

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