herseriallife
Written on Apr 18, 2021
THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOKCLUB 2016 SELECTION | A #1 NYT BESTSELLER
'IT'S AS IF SHE REACHED INTO HER HEART, CAPTURED THE RAW EMOTIONS THERE, AND TRANSLATED THEM INTO WORDS THAT ANYONE WHO'S EVER KNOWN PAIN OR SHAME CAN RELATE TO' OPRAH WINFREY
'THE VITAL, LONG-OVERDUE, MUCH-NEEDED SISTER MEMOIR TO EAT PRAY LOVE' ELIZABETH GILBERT | 'BLEW ME AWAY' BRENE BROWN
Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out - three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list - her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed. A recovering alcoholic and bulimic, rock bottom was a familiar place to Glennon. In the midst of crisis, she knew to hold on to what she discovered in recovery: that her deepest pain has always held within it an invitation to a richer life. Love Warrior is the story of one marriage, but it is also the story of the healing that is possible for any of us when we refuse to settle for good enough and begin to face pain and love head-on.
This astonishing memoir reveals how internalizing our culture's standards of masculinity and femininity can make it impossible for men and women to ever really know one another - and it captures the beauty that unfolds when one couple commits to unlearning everything they've been taught so that they can finally, after thirteen years of marriage, fall in love.
Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring tale of how we are born to be warriors: strong, powerful, and brave; able to confront the pain and claim the love that exists for us all. This chronicle of a beautiful, brutal journey speaks to anyone who yearns for deeper, truer relationships and a more abundant, authentic life.
- ISBN10 1250075742
- ISBN13 9781250075741
- Publish Date 6 September 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Flatiron Books
- Format eBook
- Language English
Reviews
Hillary
Written on Nov 22, 2016
OMG Y'ALL THIS BOOK HAS STOLEN MY HEART! I LOVED this book. It was so real and raw and painful to read. I could empathize with what she said so much. The going underneath with food and books. I could never really articulate what exactly happens with when I binge or get lost for days in books, but yes, I can now say it is a means of escape. This is a cold, cruel world, and at times I just can't handle it, so I bury myself in books, or I will binge ( I have never purged though that how I got to 315 pounds) and i will feel better for a time. While I was reading, I was going "you too??? I thought I was the only one!"
This was an emotionally hard book for me to read. It is not that long, but I could feel her pain mingling with mine, and I had to take frequent breaks to regroup. I have always felt that more woman needed to talk about the messy part of becoming who you are or rather the unbecoming. So many of us are interacting with our representative, and almost no one is showing us how to be strong and vulnerable.
I too communicated through my "representative" for years. People knew me as the it girl who had it all. A hot boyfriend I was the vice president of an exclusive sorority and was even in the honors program but underneath I was an insecure little bitch. So much of what I did was driven by insecurity I hurt people I genuinely loved. It wasn't until I was diagnosed with Bipolar that I began the decade-long healing journey and to unpack who I was. I still have my bad days but now I am confident in who I am, and I can genuinely love people and to relate to them with my real self.
This book will break you. It is a no holds re-telling of a background rife with people trying to live by societies rules. I especially liked how she came to know God. How she came to know true peace and redemption and to know that at the end for all of us there lies Grace and Mercy and Salvation. The way she describes God is the way that I experienced God. I too get mad and frustrated by people who try and pigeonhole God into a neat, tidy box with a million lists of rules and to make all of us fit inside. God came to save us from that, and ugh nothing makes my blood boil faster than fundamentalist Christians.
I have been pushing this book on everyone that I know. I want EVERYONE in the whole wide world to read this. Especially in these times when it seems that everyone is at everyone else's throat for one reason or another. We need to come together and let love rule and maybe just maybe we can begin to heal.This review was originally posted on Adventures in Never Never Land