Love Warrior: A Memoir

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Which suggests that Untamed has a gift for unleashing the truest, wildest instincts of women who are already incredibly wealthy. Let’s delve deeper into the beautiful lessons Glennon shared with us and get to know ourselves a little better!

Love Warrior Book Summary, by Glennon Doyle - Allen Cheng Love Warrior Book Summary, by Glennon Doyle - Allen Cheng

She delves into the rigid cultural expectations for women, which sort of explains her difficulties, but nothing is ever fleshed out until we get to the end when she goes into way too much detail about learning to breathe, yoga, church, etc. I felt sad about the conditions of life we all grapple with - but glad she addressed a very human way of being. Motherhood forced her to get her alcoholism and bulimia under control, but she felt lonely even with a family to care for and resentful toward Craig for imposing sex on her. My sister and I decided to do a Story Telling course with Brene Brown, and this is the book that goes with the course. It reminds me of 'Eat, Pray, Love' in that regard, but at least EPL was well-written and easier to digest.

It seems all very real, and I can’t fault her for including this part of her real life, but it made it difficult to feel any sympathy for her during those moments. The blog helps her feel like part of a community again, which gives her a sense of belonging that she has been missing since becoming a mother. Glennon is just ONE WOMAN trying to share ‘her’ truth - trying to be strong- not a victim - deeply wanting to connect with other people and not suffer alone. Now sober, Melton finds herself struggling with depression as a result of the end of her marriage and the loss of love from someone who meant everything to her. This memoir is an author taking her fiercely personal journey and making it available for us all to connect to the universal experience of discovering that we have been sold a bill of goods from the world about what love is and we have to unlearn what we've learned to discover true, deep love.

Love Warrior: A Memoir - Kindle edition by Doyle, Glennon Love Warrior: A Memoir - Kindle edition by Doyle, Glennon

She whines and whines and then eventually it's like she has no feelings for people who might actually give a shit. The author and I also disagree in several ways about God, but when she describes love and forgiveness, I read deep gospel truths there. In addition, Love Warriors also design and make the details to adorn, complete and add that little extra. I did really like her thoughts on pain and dealing with it but in the end this wasn't really what I was looking for. At the heart of this story is the insistence that we don't have to settle--we can explore our shadows, and we're not just going to survive it, but we're going to come out the other side a whole new person with new love, new hope, new strength, and maybe even a new marriage.

The author of Love Warrior, Glennon Doyle Melton, wrote a book about her struggles with addiction and bulimia. She immediately began sharing incredibly honest and personal tidbits about herself: "I'm a recovering food and alcohol addict, but I still find myself missing food and booze in the same twisted way someone can still love a person who beats them and leaves them for dead. My healing has been a peeling away of costume after cstume until here I am, still and naked before God, stripped down to my real identity. Our referral links allow us to earn commissions (at no extra cost to you) and keep the site running.