Untamed is a memoir written by activist, speaker, and author of the bestselling novels Love Warrior and Carry On, Glennon Doyle. Untamed shows you how you find yourself by listening to Doyle find herself. The story starts with how Doyle met her wife, Abby Wambach while speaking at a conference four years ago. Doyle claims when Wambach entered the room, she looked at her and fell instantly in love. Doyle knew instantly that she is the one. Doyle had previously been in a bad relationship with her ex-husband and father of her kids. She goes into the story of her marriage to her husband in her book Love Warrior. After meeting Wambach, she was finally able to hear her own voice that had been silences by “cultural conditioning, numbing addictions, and institutional allegiances.” From then on Doyle vowed to never abandon herself and to build the life she always wanted on her own terms and desires. “She would reclaim her true, untamed self.” This was her wakeup call. She wrote this to inspire other women to follow her and be untamed. Be unforgiving of who you are and to be strong enough to change your life around completely. Women strive to be perfect in society but if you are untamed you are perfectly you.
Untamed is such a special book to so many women. Doyle shows resistance to the walls built around us by society, “When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.” She no longer lives to please to world she lives to please herself. She lives a better life to be an example for her children. Doyle knows a blended family is not a broken family. This is so important because there are so many people out there struggling to fit it in a blended family. Having new unfamiliar people around is strange and uncomfortable sometimes. But being able to know you are not broken because of it will make you stronger. It is not something to be ashamed of, that is what society makes you think. It surrounds you with that much more love and support if everyone will accept it. “Each member has the freedom to bring their entire self to the family table.” Once you are free from guilt and shame you are finally able to be untamed. “What if I don’t need a permission slip because I’m already free?” You do not need anyone’s approval to be untamed you do it on your own terms when you are ready. Once you do, you will never look back.
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