Glennon Doyle wrote three memoirs, and in each one his life seems completely different.. Perhaps, because it is.
A decade ago, Doyle was a stay-at-home mom, married to a man, and a blogger whose audience consisted primarily of “Christian moms.” In 2013 he published Carry On, Warrior, which was basically a compilation of her most popular posts on her Momastery blog, an ode to home routine and marriage. At launch, she realized that this book was a sham: She learned that while she was playing the epitome of the perfect mother and wife, her husband repeatedly cheated on her with other women.
His second book, Warrior of love (2016), recounted how Doyle had taken this devastating experience and turned it into a transformative opportunity. It was to be a hit on how, through rediscovery, patience, dialogue, and love, a marriage could be saved.. But in the middle he fell in love with a woman.
During an editorial event in which he participated during the launch of this second report, he met Abby Wambach, a soccer star – former United States women’s team scorer, world champion and Olympic medalist: “Suddenly, a woman is standing where nothingness used to be. It occupies the whole door, the whole room, the whole universe ”.
“Who were you before the world told you how you should be?” At age 39, Glennon Doyle, wife, mother, best-selling writer, began that day the adventure of hearing her own voice again, the same voice that decades of cultural imperatives, social conditioning and numbing addictions had silenced.
Thus was born Indomitable, his third memoir (published in Spanish under the Urano label) that It sold more than 1 million copies in the United States and spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
This book is the story of the whirlwind that Doyle and his family went through when he met his wife today. The author, who is now 45 years old, describes it as “a battle cry” directed at all women willing to believe in themselves enough to break down barriers, accept their bodies, release their most sincere instincts and regain their most sincere self. authentic: his indomitable nature.
Oprah named her as one of the “leaders who are using their voices and talents to uplift humanity.”; Reese witherspoon she said that her latest book is “full of fascinating revelations about what it means to be a woman today”; Y Adele She said, “I’m so ready for myself after reading this book! It’s like he’s just entered my body for the first time. Phew! Anyone who has some kind of ability to really let go and give himself up with any kind of desire to hold onto life, go for it. “
But Doyle was not always exactly what is called “an example to follow.” A journalist approached her father years ago and said: “You must be very proud of your daughter.” To which he replied: “Honestly, we are happy that he is not in jail.”
Is that this story has the odd setback.
“Life is brutiful”, He wrote in his first book with a word-pastiche that tried to synthesize that life is brutal and beautiful at the same time and that you have to live all those moments to the fullest, the good and the terrible ones.
Since she was little, growing up in the suburbs of Washington DC, Doyle was “the pretty girl.” Everyone was telling her mother how beautiful she was, and she soon began to see physical beauty as a responsibility. In Warrior of Love, she writes about her first bouts of bulimia: “Every night I take two cups to bed, one full of food and one to fill with vomit. I put the cups under my bed, and their stench is a constant reminder to all of us that I am not better. “
“I am a feminist, but I was raised in a sexist culture. I was raised in a world that tried to convince me through the media, religious organizations, history books, and the beauty industry that women’s bodies are worth less than men’s and that certain women’s bodies (skinny , tall, young) is worth more than other types of women’s bodies ”.
After nearly 10 years of battling this eating disorder, he was admitted to a psychiatric clinic. He was in his last year of high school. But that was not the end. As she recounted in a 2013 TED talk, James Madison University was not the only one under the clutches of this disease: “There are so many openly bulimic women in my sorority that one afternoon they make an announcement: ‘When you vomit, please use the toilet flush. It doesn’t look good when people come to the house and there’s vomit everywhere. ‘”
“Fat girls are not accepted”, they read signs at parties where she drank alcohol until she passed out and used cocaine.
“Addiction is a hiding place for sensitive people,” he says. “I was an extremely sensitive girl; addiction is where I was going to hide from risk, to hide from pain, to hide from love ”.
After graduating, she worked as a third grade teacher. At that time, I was still drinking non-stop. She didn’t go to work because she lost track of time or was destroyed after one drunk after another. She was arrested, in her own words, “only five times.”
Later, she says, she finds peace thanks to motherhood. She becomes an exemplary wife. She raises three children, dedicates herself to blogging, writes her first book, discovers her husband’s serial infidelity, writes a second book, and falls in love, this time with a woman. And write a third.
Glennon Doyle is today a bestselling author who raised more than $ 25 million for people in need through her nonprofit Together Rising. She considers Oprah a teacher and friend and has 1.7 million followers on Instagram. She was invited to the podcast of Hillary Clinton; Elizabeth warren He said: “You, in a moment of complete madness, are a voice to remind all of us that we have a center, we have a heart”; Y Joe Biden’s campaign recruited her to reach out to suburban women – “Glennon is his knight in shining armor” – described a member of the staff of the now president of the United States-.
The author, who is sometimes described as a “clinically depressed motivational speaker”, accepts the term “leader” but, as he confessed to The New Yorker, escapes the term guru: “I earn the trust of these people by listening to their daily needs, and that fascinates me infinitely. A guru is someone who makes people follow him. I’m trying to make people feel more active in their own lives. “
You don’t like labels. She no longer knows if she identifies as Christian, some feminists do not accept her at all, and neither do LGBT groups. “I’m not gay enough for the gay community”He says in an interview, and says that he receives many negative comments when he refuses to interpret his life until he met his wife as years in the closet. “I’m used to ‘the other side’ hating me. I take all those criticisms and use them as a medal of honor ”.
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