Untamed * Glennon Doyle

This explosive, deeply moving memoir documents a prominent speaker’s fierce awakening after falling in love with a female sports icon, delivering a raw, soul-stirring call to action for women to break free from societal expectations and reclaim their wildest, truest selves.

The Story: Written by prominent activist, podcast host, and New York Times bestselling literary powerhouse Glennon Doyle, this globally celebrated 2020 publication stands as an era-defining contemporary memoir. Doyle looks past shallow self-help clichés, unvetted spiritual fads, and low-effort corporate mindfulness checklists. Instead, drawing from her high-stakes personal pivot after stepping away from a heavily monitored, public marriage to embrace a fierce, unconditional love with soccer legend Abby Wambach, she establishes a behavior-focused framework demonstrating that a truly balanced life relies on burning down your artificial cages, trusting your internal knowing, and recognizing that a whole family thrives on truth rather than quiet suffering.

The book takes seekers, educators, and personal growth students through an exceptionally deep emotional landscape across its pages. The layout organizes strategic growth around short, self-contained narrative vignettes detailing structural boundary-setting, navigating the complex social conditioning that limits young girls, and engineering specialized co-parenting systems that honor collective transparency. The text pairs high-contrast personal crises and raw family histories with profound psychological clarity, teaching readers how to handle systemic pushback, quiet internal self-criticism, and construct a permanent environment of emotional freedom.

Rather than reading like a dry academic lecture or an abstract theological essay, the chapters are a highly engaging, eye-opening companion for modern career development and lifestyle design. Doyle pairs her uncompromising vulnerability with a warm, encouraging, and completely conversational tone, teaching readers how to recognize their own operational blind spots, process chronic relational trauma, and lead with an unyielding sense of personal honor. This multi-million-copy international chart-topper and Reese's Book Club pick remains a crucial foundation for biography, women's studies, and executive self-care shelves worldwide.

Perfect For: Women, truth-seekers, and independent builders looking for an uncomplicated, highly detailed text to master emotional regulation and lifestyle autonomy; fans of raw, narrative-driven personal growth books like the works of Brené Brown, Elizabeth Gilbert, or Martha Beck; and book clubs exploring structural feminism and mental health.

Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2020), Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Award Nominee (2020).

Published 2020 by The Dial Press.

Biography & Autobiography / Feminist Memoirs / Personal Growth & Transformation / Modern Social Class & Family Culture / Creative Activism / Applied Behavioral Psychology