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Untamed

Written by: Glennon Doyle
Narrated by: Glennon Doyle
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Publisher's Summary

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! “Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick)

In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and “patron saint of female empowerment” (
People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
O: The Oprah Magazine The Washington Post Cosmopolitan Marie ClaireBloomberg Parade • “Untamed will liberate women—emotionally, spiritually, and physically. It is phenomenal.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love

This is how you find yourself.

There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn’t it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent—even from ourselves.

For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. But she soon realized they had come to her from within. This was her own voice—the one she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions, cultural conditioning, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl she had been before the world told her who to be. Glennon decided to quit abandoning herself and to instead abandon the world’s expectations of her. She quit being good so she could be free. She quit pleasing and started living.

Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. 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 her full self to the table. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is.

Untamed shows us how to be brave. As Glennon insists: The braver we are, the luckier we get.

©2020 Glennon Doyle (P)2020 Random House Audio

What the critics say

“Some books shake you by the shoulder while others steal your heart. In Untamed, Glennon does both at the exact same time.”—Brené Brown

“This memoir is so packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today, what it means to be ‘good,’ and what women will do in order to be loved. I swear I highlighted something in EVERY chapter.”—Reese Witherspoon

“Doyle might just be the patron saint of female empowerment. . . . Here she inspires other women to listen to their intuition and break free of what cages them. . . . Her memoir has a message as clear as a ‘go’ signal: Find and honor your truest self.”People

Editorial Review

How women can be themselves in a society that tells them how to think, how to behave and how to be? Untamed is a powerful memoir that will give every woman the courage to be who she truly wants to be and live her life to the fullest.

Glennon Doyle was trying to please everyone around her - but wasn’t pleasing the most important person in her life - herself. When she started listening to the voice inside her, she finally felt free to be who she really is. After living a life dictated by society’s expectations, the mother of three divorced her husband to marry the woman she fell in love with at first sight, Abby Wambach. Glennon Doyle is both the writer and narrator of this audiobook. She opens her heart to listeners in a strong, confident, and honest voice.

Glennon Doyle is a best-selling writer, an activist and a thought leader. She is the founder and president of Together Rising, a nonprofit run exclusively by women that helps women, families, and children in crisis. Besides Untamed, Glennon is the writer and narrator of Love Warrior, an Oprah's Book Club selection, and of Carry On, Warrior. These three audiobooks can be downloaded on Audible.

Untamed is a huge success, and a #1 New York Times best seller, with more than one million copies sold since its publication in 2020.

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Not what I expected

I will say that I may have a bias because Love Warrior just lit me up from the inside out. It is the benchmark to which I may be comparing Untamed to. I really wanted this to be a continuous flow from the story of her life in Love Warrior to Untamed. I had hoped she would talk more about the dissolution of her marriage, and how she learned to be alone. But she didn't have alone time, she went right from her marriage to her relationship with Abby. Abby is presented as this sort of magical presence in her life that completes her. It kind of feels unfair. It's as though her truth and her ability to be fully alive was only discovered when she laid eyes on Abby.

That's just too sing-songy for me. I yearned for the grit Doyle is known for in her writing. This book did not deliver for me in that department.

There's also a preachy feel to this book, like a blueprint on how to navigate life as a woman, but I don't want advice. I'm here for your story Glennon, I don't want you to tell me how to be, how to exist, how to be still. I don't want you to know it all and have all the answers... I want your fears and doubts and second guesses. I want that real and authentic stuff no one talks about - the stuff that scares me beyond measure.

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I will never be the same, seriously

I can't tell you how many times I wanted to stop this book, grab something to write with or hop on the computer, and transcribe the wisdom that was imparted. there were so many times I could only talk back to the book, as if Glennon were right here next to me telling me what I already know and just don't want to put into action. There is so much of everyone else's expectations shoved into us when we are young that it is no wonder we have so much trouble finding ourselves under that pile of stuff. I am 52 years old and I am just beginning to get to that me that is in there somewhere. This book ripped some of that stuff away as if it were just cellophane and I should have seen through it all along. Thank you for this book Glennon Doyle, thank you so very much, for showing me that I am a goddamn cheetah.

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Nope

couldn't finish and just don't understand the hype....said a lot without saying much. I enjoyed some of the anecdotes

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A lightening rod

Listened to this with my family driving across the continent during the early days of the Covid19 pandemic. It kept us grounded and reminded us-we can do hard things.

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Overrated

Definitely not worth the hype it received. I wouldn’t recommend to anyone. Didn’t make it through the first couple chapters it was painful.

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Every woman needs do read this

It hasn’t been a book in a while that made me cry and laugh, learn new wisdom, recognize and define some old. A tale of one life, bravery to be who she was supposed to be. An excellent read. I mean, listen:).

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LIFE CHANGING

This raw, beautiful, honest story about REAL life was life changing for me in so many ways. It was very cathartic! You are right Glennon we can do HARD THINGS! Thank you!

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A story that comes across fake...over the top

I am a for woman. I support women. However, some of book comes across as playing a victim. Being a lesbian in this day and age is not scary, it's nothing new. Being a middle-class white alcoholic is nothing new. Women before us had 10 children and ran a home on a kraft dinner budget. They couldn't vote, They had little say about their financial situation and couldn't work. Glennon, I have no doubt you are a beautiful person, but take off the filtered glasses, see how privileged you've always been and truly talk to women that don't look like you and listen to their stories... not all are horrible. Some grew up in an amazing home with amazing parents... Some women have been tortured, raped and survive to go on and show their bravery everyday, not by writing a book crying about their woes... they are the Maya Angelou's of the world, the Oprah's of the world. They Rise. Nothing about this book made me feel like you are a Maya Angelou of the world. This is a personal journal , sitting down with your best friend conversation... not a book. Sorry...try again. You will eventually grow into yourself and your story will be so different because you'll remove your victim glasses and see!

Good luck!
Tabitha (Like the Cheetah)..my son's name is also Chase.

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You will stop, pause and reflect

This book, incredibly written, was even more astounding being read by Glennon. You will not want to read this all at once. It will make you stop what you are doing, sit down and soak in what she just said. You’ll find yourself, coming back into being a mother fucking cheetah.

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I really wanted to like this..

This book is fine if you're the type of woman that hasn't realized that not all women need to be a certain way. Honestly it sounds like it was written by a 25 year old who's frontal lobe finally developed. I don't find this book inspiring or enlightening in the least. Everything she said had me either rolling my eyes or scoffing. Annoyed doesn't begin to describe how I feel listening to this. I almost feel like my intelligence as a woman is being insulted or belittled by one of my own. Hated it.. HATED it.

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