I will continue to become only if I resist extinguishing myself a million times a day. Life is alchemy, and emotions are the fire that turns me to gold. Everything I need to become the woman I’m meant to be next is inside my feelings of now. Whether I like it or not, pain is the fuel of revolution. To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution. “I am here to keep becoming truer, more beautiful versions of myself again and again forever. And when I was afflicted (or blessed?) with mental “skillness,” I took the reigns and made it my bitch.

Until I got better not because of my therapists or the people in my life who were cheering me on, but because I chose to do something, be someone better.

I had an eating disorder, was diagnosed with mental illness (why so much shame surrounding this?), and have sat in countless therapists’ offices for just a smidge of relief in my most trying and darkest days. I didn’t drug, but I may have boozed to ease my pain. I’m not a mother and I’ve never married, either.īut I’ve hurt and suffered. I’m also not gay (at least not that I’ve realized, but who knows twenty, maybe thirty years from now I mean, look at Glennon, look at Liz). For starters, my life was only a blip of “Christian” for a few years when I was in my teens and early twenties. And yet, it wasn’t my story, not entirely. I read it as if I was telling it as though it was my story. Oh, how I inhaled every word that Glennon exhaled on the page. It’s sitting on my nightstand, but I have, like, three other books to get through first.įriend: Excuses, excuses. Untamed was hyped by social media posts, book world articles, and then my close friends started reading it. And yet she is a renowned New York Times bestselling author of powerful, beastly, feministic titles like Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior a close friend of one of my favorite authors Liz Gilbert, and writes with a voice I envy and long for in my own writing. Truthfully, I’d never heard of her in my life. I’m not going to pretend I’ve been a life-long G.D. “UNTAMED,” it said in bold white lettering, by Glennon Doyle. That’s what happened when I was scrolling through Instagram one day and kept seeing this swirly pink, teal, and glittery gold book cover. Except in my case, I’m attracted to colorful, bold book covers with a title that gives you pause - for example, Big Magic by Liz Gilbert and Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Diaz. I’ve come to the realization that I’m like a raccoon attracted to shiny objects. (I really meant it for all of the others, too.) Okay, I’ve said that about a dozen other best books I’ve ever read, but I really mean it this time.

I just finished the best book I’ve ever read.

Untamed workbook