Love Warrior: A Memoir by Glennon Doyle (Epub)

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A memoir of betrayal and self-discovery by bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are all 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.

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Review “A testament to the power of vulnerability. Glennon shows us the clearest meaning of ‘To thine ownself be true.’ 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 ― in other words, every human on the planet ― can relate to. She’s bravely put everything on the table for the whole world to see.”― Oprah Winfrey (Oprah’s Book Club 2016 selection)”Glennon is not merely relaying a narrative; she is offering her story with the hope and purpose of connection. Love Warrior… draws you in close, as if the author is talking to you, and only to you. Listening to such a warm and emotionally intelligent author is a worthy investment in a course on difficult conversations. But I suspect that… what will win you over is all the ‘terrible magic’ that happens when things fall apart.”― New York Times Book Review “An incredible, dark, poignant, vulnerable personal account about surviving rock bottom and finding a better life. You will be inspired by [Glennon’s] resilience, strength, and womanhood.”― Real Simple”This memoir isn’t really about Glennon rebuilding her relationship with her husband; it’s about Glennon rebuilding her relationship with herself. It’s about one woman letting go of the gendered messages she’s been surrounded by her entire life, and communing with her fullest, most authentic self. Utterly refreshing and… just totally badass.”― Bustle.com”Love Warrior reaches a depth of truth and power and emotional gravity that is rarely seen in the world, and even more rarely spoken aloud. Glennon’s story about the resurrection of her marriage (a tale of a woman daring to come into her body, and a man daring to come into his mind, and the two of them daring ― with outrageous courage ― to trust each other) is something beyond merely inspirational; it is epic. I think of this book as the vital, long-overdue, much-needed sister memoir to Eat Pray Love. Glennon lifts the roof off her whole house ― her whole life ― and examines everything, right out in the open. She has, indeed, become a Love Warrior. This book is an act of love and truth and generosity; it will change lives.”― Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love”This is a book about what it means to be human ― to wrestle with love, hurt, addiction, vulnerability, intimacy, and grace. Love Warrior blew me away. We can all find pieces of our own stories reflected in Glennon’s powerful words. We are so lucky to have her courage and wisdom in the world. We need this kind of truth telling if we are ever going to find our way back to each other.”― Brené Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Rising Strong and Daring Greatly”How can I do justice to this book? Moving and brilliant and funny and shocking and heartbreaking and inspiring, Love Warrior raises provocative questions about just what is possible for a person, a marriage, a family, a life. At the heart of this story is the insistence that we don’t have to settle ― we can explore our shadows, and we’re not just going to survive it, but we’re going to come out the other side a whole new person with new love, new hope, new strength, and maybe even a new marriage. This is a big, stunning, buoyant, honest, raw glimpse into the life of an astonishing woman, but it is also a punch in the face to anyone anywhere who believes that this is just how it is and it’s not going to get any better.”― Rob Bell, NewYork Times bestselling author of Love Wins”This elegant, moving memoir is about one woman’s marriage but also much more than that. Glennon writes about a hunger for love that all of us feel and the only food that ultimately feeds us. She understands the unique relationship between spiritual and romantic love, and in finding one, she masters the other. Truly a wonderful book.”― Marianne Williamson, New York Times bestselling author of A Return to Love”When I finished the last page of Love Warrior, I sobbed. I sobbed because I was in awe. Because I didn’t want it to end. Because it made me believe more deeply in love, in humanity, in forgiveness, in God, in marriage. Glennon and Craig have invited us so far into the messy, beautiful, difficult insides of their hearts and lives, and what we find there is profoundly inspiring. This is a book that will change lives, change marriages, change the way we think and talk about what love really is.”― Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author of Present Over Perfect”Glennon Doyle has mastered sharing her emotional life with the world, which she does nearly daily on momastery.com. Now she lays herself bare once again in Love Warrior, chronicling her struggles and the depths of her resilience in the darkest of times. A heroic achievement.”― Family Circle”A compelling story about self-discovery. Candid, brave, and generous.”― Kirkus Reviews”A breathless story, beautifully told. Love Warrior presents an intense and absorbing narrative while reaching for something bigger and more quixotic, the mystery of intimacy itself.”― Bookpage

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ Way too much feel good, touchy-feely psychobabble. And I’m a psychologist! I enjoyed the first half of this book and started skimming toward the end. I wish I had read more reviews before purchasing this or that I had borrowed it from the library. The idea of totally accepting yourself and being your true self is wonderful. I just did not care for the delivery.This is Glennon Doyle’s memoir about her difficult adolescence, her battle with bulimia, her substance use, and her unhealthy relationship with men and sex in college. She gets pregnant with her boyfriend and they marry. They have two more children and settle down as a family. She discovers he is into porn then he confesses to serial one night stands since they have been married. The bulk of the book is about how she sorts through her emotions and tries to make a decision about her marriage and her family. Her husband seems genuinely repentant and tries to win her back. They both go to therapy and learn that they have very different communication styles. They both work very hard on their marriage, to an almost unbelievable degree. Ms. Doyle also seeks answers through yoga and church. The title Love Warrior (which I hate!) is made a bit more palatable when you learn that it is in reference to the warrior pose in yoga. I did not realize that the author has parlayed her love warriorship into a website, blog, charity work, and speaking engagements. I probably would not have read the book if I had known.I thought that the writing was excellent and there were some sentences and paragraphs that really drive home her message. I think everyone can identify with the difficulty in figuring out who you are and being true to that. Instead, we try to blend in and be what we think other people will like. What I did not like about the later portion of the book was the author’s focus on being her authentic self. All. The. Time. With the constant introspection and questioning of her thoughts and feelings, I’m not sure how she could be real in the moment. Some of the phrases she uses are too much for me such as “I’m learning to feed my body.” Or in reference to learning to love her body “You are the ship that delivers love from the shore of another being to the shore of me.” If you like that style, you will love this book. If it makes you roll your eyes, you may want to pass.

⭐ A friend suggested this book, so I downloaded a sample. I read it and it felt like every word described my childhood. My experiences on how to behave…how to display beauty and intelligence when interacting with others.I was curious about the author and started reading reviews prior to downloading reviews. Some praised her and related to her, others dropped off at passages where they felt she was too (insert adjective). Some labeled her a false prophet, some a spiritual guide.I almost didn’t read this book because of one of those labels. One that I just couldn’t identify with at all.But I read on. At times, I thought this woman is a beautiful writer. Her imagery is crisp, uniquely hers, forceful and superb. At other times I felt she was shallow or putting others in boxes as it related to her grief, her experiences, and I couldn’t relate at all. I thought about stopping. But I read on,and realized that she was baring her soul. Opening herself up to criticism and attack on many levels—as a person, a parent, a spouse, a spiritual being, a woman, a feminist, and whatever role or label the reader wanted to ascribe or judge her on.Did I relate to everything she said. Absolutely not. How could I? It’s her experience. Could I relate to some things? Absolutely.Baring your soul is brave. Allowing others to glimpse the lesson that you took from a situation is courageous. And I realized that it was not that she was a guru or guide instructing us how to be, act or feel, but relaying her experiences, how she dealt with them reacted, and re-evaluated her behavior as time passed.So I can’t judge her or find fault if I don’t relate, but I can listen learn and grow from what she has shared with me in her own personal journey. We are all on our own journey, and it is beautiful and painful for many of us. By baring her faults and foibles as well as her successes, she affords you the opportunity to take with you a message, the knowledge that as humans none of us have a perfect life or experiences. There will be good and bad. You will be challenged to find grace is devastating situations, to celebrate the successes of others when you are flailing. And when you are not flailing, when you have grace, you can walk with someone through parts of their journey.

⭐ This is a memoir. The truth here is unvarnished, which sometimes makes people uncomfortable. some of the negative reviews minimized her experience/story or judged her. I didn’t feel that it was voyeuristic, except that aren’t memoirs supposed to be somewhat voyeuristic, a first hand account of her experience. As for the reviewers who felt badly for Craig and that it was overly revealing of their relationship…I didn’t feel that. And the reviewer that called her a narcissist, i saw her writing from an observers perspective of her own behavior/actions. She calls it the “representative”…the pretty face that she showed the world, which was not her true self. I sifted thru the person who labeled her a narcissist and did not find her to be one…i did find a person who is evolving in all ways. If you are uncomfortable with honesty and candid truth about sex/life/relationships, you probably won’t like this memoir. I can see some people with preconceived ideas of what is normal/not normal, and folks from earlier generations being uncomfortable with the truthful nature of her memoir. I related strongly because the social belief system that formed her, also formed me, and the addictions, as well. for those of you who didn’t like this, i recommend Danielle Steele romance novels or similar.

⭐ Wow this book sucked. Don’t get me wrong, I completely respect her personal story and journey but the way she portrays it in the book is full of cliches that amount to a self-indulgent, pity party. She is the constant victim. She isn’t even smart enough to recognize her hypocrisy.She wants to be seen for her true self but immediately shuts people in her life down and buckets them into generalized categories of how they do or do not serve her. You literally don’t get to know one single character in her book (besides her) because all you see is how they fail her….that’s their only function in the book. They aren’t people to her.I find her epiphanies to be contrive and they carry a huge “duh” factor. Glad you could join the rest of us who arrived to these conclusions around the age of 14. To me, she seems just as clueless at the end of the book. I felt like I was reading a 12 year old’s diary.So dull. And I worry that some women might actually mistake her misconstrued ‘warrior’ antics as something to be proud of. Her epiphanies are immature and underdeveloped. I feel like I got dumber just reading it.

⭐ This book is a lot of story telling. That’s cool. But the title “Love Warrior” suggested to me that the author grew to a place off operating out of love for herself and everyone around her. What I read was vastly different than what I expected. The book begins with thoughtful questions about women and body image and societal expectations of a woman’s physical presence and ends without the reader getting a sense that the author actually came to any sort of resolution around these areas within herself. Every woman has a powerful story, and Glennon’s story is her own — but I found myself, as the reader, at the end of Love Warrior asking myself: what was the point of what I just read?

⭐ Love Warrior was an okay read. Glennon has certainly been through a lot between drug addiction, alcohol addiction and her battle with an eating disorder. Her relationship with her husband Craig was not built on a solid foundation and inevitably things take a turn for the worst. However I disliked her utter hatred for him. True he cheated on her. True he was a sex addict but they were both addicts when they first got together. It irritated me that Glennon laid all the blame on Craig as if he was the sole person responsible in their marriage falling apart. She made just as many wrong decisions as he did. I actually commend Craig for taking the initiative to begin therapy. If he hadn’t much of the truth wouldn’t have been disclosed. Every relationship has their ups and downs but laying the blame on the other person doesn’t better the situation nor make it right. When you point the finger you’ve got 3 fingers and a thumb pointing right back at the solution. I really wanted to like this book but it went downhill for me once Glennon started blaming her husband for everything. Chapter after chapter devoted to how much he was to blame. What about when she chose to continue the relationship after the abortion? To me that was low and it was her choice to continue with a dysfunctional relationship. In the end I’m glad that they stayed together and learned a healthier way to communicate and love each other but it was hard empathizing with Glennon throughout this book

⭐ Beautiful, touching book. As a woman who has had plenty of body image and intimacy issues, i related to the entire thing. Every time i put the book down, I left with a desire to hold, kiss, and thank my significant other for being in my life despite everything we have overcome. Even though I am not christian, i was still appreciative of her spritual strength. Wonderful book for anyone who has battled trust and intimacy issues and have desired to overcome them to heal their relationships, better their take on sex, and truly open up to the one they love.

⭐ I found Love Warrior first through Elizabeth Gilbert’s podcast “Magic Lessons,” featuring an interview with Glennon Doyle Melton. I was so knocked out by that podcast, which I played at least four times, that I bought her audiobook immediately. I see this three-part book as dealing with Body, Mind and Spirit. I don’t know if that was the author’s conscious intent, but that’s how it works. Part One blew me away, as I struggled with many of the problems she did growing up. I wanted my husband to hear it to know how women size themselves up and how our culture impresses upon us its values–and we learn to devalue ourselves. Powerful. Part Two got into her mental space and Part Three was significantly more spiritual. At the end of Parts One and Two each, I felt like the book was complete and would have been satisfied, but was delighted with what came after. The author does a great job reading her own work and I held on for every word, and immediately began recommending it when I was finished. I’ve listened all the way through twice, and will likely play it again.

⭐ A clinical psychologist, now retired, I specialized in relationship therapy for most of my career. Were I in practice today, I would encourage my couples to read Love Warrior. They could benefit from this author’s openness, her pure honesty in describing her woundedness and healing. Glennon grew to understand that we are all flawed in some way. During our growing up years, we do the best we can to get our needs met. Along the way we develop coping strategies, some healthy, some destructive. While these strategies may help us get through childhood, they often don’t serve us well in a committed relationship. The author artfully shows us the process by which a partnership can unravel, then be mended through a willingness to be vulnerable, and to eventually create the safety needed for a loving, honest relationship.On a more personal note, this beautifully written memoir evoked strong emotions in me, once again reminding me of my own woundedness. I cried in recognition of the hurt child that I was, and remained, well into adulthood. Obviously, based on my intense reactions, I still have that child inside. Thank goodness. Knowing her has helped me to heal. As did Glennon, I traveled back to understand that little girl who did her best to please others, as was needed for survival.I give my highest recommendation for Love Warrior.

⭐ I love Glennon Doyle Melton’s Facebook page, and I find her blog writing very inspiring. This book was a slog though, and I gave it away halfway through. It was just a bit too much self-focus for my taste, and I thought her own self-analysis of her childhood missed the mark mightily. I didn’t care for it. If you find it inspiring, that’s wonderful! 🙂

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