On assignment, I am often in new places, constantly consulting a map and guidebook to make sure I wring as much as possible out of every moment on the road. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been. Every life is an unprecedented experiment. Because no one has ever lived or will ever live this life I am attempting to live, with my gifts and challenges and past and people. “I understand now that no one else in the world knows what I should do. If you found this article helpful, please consider supporting our independent reporting and truth-telling for as little as $5 per month.ĭoyle asks us, “Will we be brave enough to unlock ourselves? Will we be brave enough to set ourselves free? Will we finally step out of our cages and say to ourselves, to our people, and to the world: Here I Am!”Īs a travel reporter, this section particularly resonated with me: I found it challenging because I did not feel courageous-and in fact looked both words up in the dictionary, often trying to understand what they were telling me. When I chose to leave my marriage and the continent I was on, many people called me brave. Now in Untamed, she brings us into her new life and love with Abby Wambach. And in Love Warrior, after she discovered her husband’s infidelity and her marriage crumbled, she kept walking forward when she did not know what to do next. In her first book, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed, Doyle reminds us that people are messy. It’s crazy to long for what doesn’t even exist.”īut, the “fenceless, wide-open savannas” do exist, Doyle tells readers, and maybe we can learn to reject our taming and “sleep under an ink-black, silent sky filled with stars” where we can create our own realties and break out of our cages.ĭoyle knows about feeling caged, as her “childhood bulimia morphed into alcoholism and drug use, and numb for sixteen years.” Many of us feel locked into our roles and say to ourselves, “I should be grateful. You are a goddamn cheetah,” to Tabitha, the cheetah at the zoo-but also at everyone else. Have we as women forgotten our wildness? She wants to yell, “You are not crazy. The book begins at the zoo thinking about being restless and frustrated like a caged animal. We collectively grow stronger as we are more willing to ask hard questions.ĭoyle wants to know, “Where did my spark go at ten? How had I lost myself?” She ponders and worries about her own daughters and how to help them never lose themselves. Reading Glennon Doyle’s memoir, Untamed, is diving into an adventure of what we can become. Let it burn.” In her new memoir, “Untamed,” Glennon Doyle breaks down the true meaning of bravery. “Maybe Eve was never meant to be our warning.
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