“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.
Annie Spratt
Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed.”
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.
For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent.
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 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 worlds expectations of her.
She quit being good so she could be free.
She quit pleasing and started living.
Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender,Untamedis both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call.
4.Wildby Cheryl Strayed
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything.
In the wake of her mothers death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed.
Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life.
Our future depends upon it.
And create it NOW, Make some damn money already.
The kind youve never made before.
