Book Review: Untamed by Glennon Doyle

“Melissa: You, my sister, are a goddamn cheetah," Glennon Doyle wrote in a hand-written note accompanying her new book, Untamed. I stayed up late to finish it, then closed the cover and thought back.⁣⁣
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The moment of clarity after five years of drugs; divine intervention providing a flash of hope—that I was meant for so much more than this.⁣⁣
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Newly recovered, a steady job, a nice house, the good wife, having been told “this will keep you stable,” my soul already craving more than just stability.⁣⁣
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Later, another marriage, impulsive and destructive, lying in the bed I had made, my gut screaming this was not, in fact, to be my life.⁣⁣
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A third act, stepping out from behind the image, elated to shed the armor and pretense and weight of other people’s expectations, my whole body singing “we can do hard things.”⁣⁣
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In a new relationship, the healthiest thing I had known, afraid to show him who I was; my heart reminding me I was, in fact, meant for this, exactly this.⁣⁣
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Yes, sister Glennon, I am a goddamn cheetah. Thank you for reminding me. I love you. Now I have things to burn.⁣⁣
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You, Dear Reader, are also a goddamn cheetah. Remind yourself. Feel it all. The world will not stop staring. I love you too.⁣ Go read this book.

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