Book Review: Untamed by Glennon Doyle

This was one of those books for me that was so popular on Instagram and with friends that I was a little skeptical, and even though I bought it (for the cover, I’ll admit) in 2020, it took me several months to finally get around to reading this one. I’m so glad that I decided to start off 2021 with this one as my first book towards my goal of reading at least one non-fiction “self-help” book a month.

Synopsis from Goodreads:
Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. It is the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family depends not on its structure but on each member’s ability to bring her full self to the table. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is.

Review:
First read in January as part of my goal to read a self-help or professional development book, I started reading it again in February as a book club pick. I didn’t feel the need to finish it in time for book club in March, hence the late review.

Because of all the hype of this book, I expected to get something as moving, inspiring and life changing as I got out of Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. But, unfortunately I did not. That said, there are still a few nuggets of information and advice that did get my attention and I appreciated Glennon’s vulnerability, especially when she talked about her experience from being married to a straight man to meeting her now wife.