Key Themes:
Mindset, Psychology, Human Behaviour, Personal Development
Summary:
Untamed by Glennon Doyle is part life guide, part memoir. It identifies the joy and freedom we can experience when we stop trying to make everyone happy and meet the world’s expectations of us. Doyle instead asks us to trust our instincts and listen to the still voice, that resides deep inside us.
For many years, Doyle was living a lie and unhappy in her life. Then, while speaking at a conference (whist promoting her first book), she saw a woman across the room and fell madly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There. She. Is. Glennon assumed these words came to her from God, but soon identified that they had come to her from within her soul. This was the voice she had kept hidden, smothered by long-term addictions and social and familial pressures. She decided to discard the world’s expectations of her and reclaim her true untamed self. This book is a series of chapters, each addressing an element of her life and the lessons we can all learn by trusting in ourselves and our inner voice.
Content Overview:
Joyous one minute, tear jerking the next and both direct, yet kind. Untamed is that rare book that combines an intimate memoir with a piercing wake-up call. It is the true story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is one that provides a daily example to her children of how to live and live life to the full. She is not one who loses a piece of her identity and dies a little more each day for her children.
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 their full self to the table. It is the story of how each of us can begin to trust and respect ourselves enough to set boundaries, love our bodies, honour and explore our anger and heartbreak, and release our truth and basest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves in the mirror and say: There She Is.
Untamed shows us how to be brave. And, as Doyle states, ‘The braver we are, the luckier we get.’
Rating: 9.5/10
Untamed was a gift from a friend and it was a true blessing. It’s one of those books that makes you reconsider not just what you do and think, but why? It helps you to reset and realise that putting yourself first isn’t wrong but necessary to thrive and be of value to yourself and those around you.
Readability: 10/10
Written in bite-sized chapters, this is an engaging and easy read. You will laugh, cry and in fact experience all kinds of emotions as you dive into the wisdom of these chapters. One think that won’t happen is you won’t remain unchanged.
Does what it says on the tin: 10/10
Yes – it will help you to find your inner, instinctive self and love who you are – not what you wish to become.