Untamed
Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living by Glennon Doyle
🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences
Untamed is all about listening to your inner voice and tuning out societal standards and patriarchal pressures. "We must untame ourselves and live free from societal confines and ideas about how we should behave in order to bravely find our inner voice,"
This book shares thoughts and reflective insights into big topics including: womanhood, sexuality, motherhood, marriage, and faith.
Untamed shows us how to be brave, to not hide the simmering discontent and how we should fight for ourselves.
🎨 Impressions
Untamed is an intimate memoir and a stark wake-up call. It is beautifully told and Doyle shares her stories in a raw, honest, revealing and self-reflective way.
There are many valuable observations on how to live life. It is an easy, engaging read as the way the narrative is told in a candid way.
How I Discovered It
This was ranked as the second best memoir on Goodreads in 2020 and had been highly reviewed and rated. I was intrigued to read it see what it was about however it did not live up these high standards.
Who Should Read It?
If you are going through a challenging period of life and are in need of some hope, Doyle offers this in abundance. Otherwise, it is an interesting read to hear how her opinions and ideas have evolved over time.
☘️ How the Book Changed Me
We hope this endless striving, to be good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends, will make us feel better. But instead it leaves us in pieces. Underwhelmed, overwhelmed, lost, confused, stuck. We need to think about where this endless quest leaves us.
Look inside, not outside for answers. She talks about the triumphs associated with finding your identity and claiming it for yourself. Doyle explores different ways that she experienced freedom and started to feel empowered by her decisions in life.
Being human is hard and we can do hard things. Challenging yourself, your assumptions and beliefs will be a hard but rewarding route.
This book shares Glennon's story navigating divorce and forming a new blended family, discovering the true wholeness of a family and everyone's individual ability to bring their full selves to the table.
✍️ My Top 3 Quotes
When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.
This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.
I will not stay, not ever again - in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.
