"The former Momastery blogger turned bestselling memoirist, urging women to stop pleasing the world and start listening to themselves."
Glennon Doyle is an American author, activist, and founder of the nonprofit Together Rising, best known for the #1 New York Times bestseller "Untamed." She first gained a following through her blog Momastery, writing candidly about addiction recovery, marriage, and motherhood, before her 2020 memoir "Untamed" became a cultural phenomenon—chronicling her decision to leave her marriage and fall in love with soccer star Abby Wambach. Doyle's work centers on the idea that women are conditioned to abandon their own instincts to please others, and that reclaiming those instincts is an act of liberation. "Untamed" spent over a year on bestseller lists and was selected for Reese's Book Club.
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Glennon Doyle's fierce manifesto for breaking free from expectations and trusting your inner Knowing. A guide to choosing authenticity over approval.
Read Summary →Doyle argues women are trained from childhood to suppress their instincts in order to be likable; reclaiming those buried feelings is the path back to an authentic life.
Sacrificing your own needs for others isn't automatically noble—Doyle reframes self-abandonment as a pattern that harms both the giver and the people who depend on them.
Doyle treats difficult emotions and life-altering decisions not as failures to avoid but as signals pointing toward a truer version of yourself.
"This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they've never been."— Untamed
"When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself."— Untamed
"I will not stay, not ever again – in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself."— Untamed
"Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right."— Untamed
Glennon Doyle's fierce manifesto for breaking free from expectations and trusting your inner Knowing. A guide to choosing authenticity over approval.
