Untamed

Who were you before people told you who you should be?

No. 1 New York Times bestseller with over 1,000,000 sales

Every woman has a voice of longing and nostalgia inside her. We try with all our being to be good: good partners, good daughters, good mothers, good workers, good friends. We hope that all this effort will make us feel alive. Instead, however, we end up feeling exhausted, at a dead end, suffocated by what we should be and disappointed by the result. We look at our lives and ask ourselves: but, shouldn't all this be more beautiful? But we stifle the question too hastily, telling ourselves that we should be grateful, and we hide our unhappiness even from ourselves.

Authentic and angry, impetuous and tender at the same time, Untamed is both a candid autobiography and a clarion call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not the one who dies slowly for her children, but the one who shows them how to live with all their heart. It is a story that describes a divorce, the creation of a new, complex family, and the realization that how united or torn a family is depends on whether its members can, when they sit at the table, be their true selves. And it is the story of how we can all begin to trust ourselves enough to set our boundaries, to come to terms with our bodies, to honor our anger and pain, and to unleash our truest, wildest instincts, so that we, as women, can look at ourselves and say: This is me.

They said about the book:

"There are books that shake you and others that steal your heart. Untamed does both at the same time: Wake up! I love you!"
-Brené Brown, author of Dare to Lead and Be Brave in Difficult Times

"Glennon Doyle is one of my favorite people, one of my favorite teachers, and one of my favorite fighters in the world."
–Anne Hathaway

"DON'T MISS IT!"
–Emma Watson

"It will make your mind explode and your soul scream. Now that I've read it, I'm completely ready to accept myself!"
–Adele

"Glennon shows us what it really means to be honest with ourselves. It's as if she's taken all the raw emotions from her heart and put them into words that anyone who has ever felt pain or shame—in other words, every person on the planet—can relate to."
–Oprah Winfrey

"Full of incredible insight into what it means to be a woman today—what it means to be 'good' and how much we women are willing to do to be loved. I swear, I've highlighted something in every chapter."
–Reese Witherspoon

OR Glennon Doyle is an author, activist, speaker, and spiritual leader. She is the founder of Together Rising, an all-female nonprofit that has revolutionized the way grassroots philanthropy works, raising more than $20 million to support women, families, and children in crisis.

She has been selected as a member of Oprah Winfrey's SuperSoul Network, recruiting 100 "enlightened leaders who use their voices and talents to elevate humanity." Untamed was nominated for a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award in the Memoir & Autobiography category. Glennon lives in Florida with her husband and three children.