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The highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.
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, Glennon found that rock bottom was a familiar place. 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 our ideals of masculinity and femininity can make it impossible for a man and a woman to truly 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, commit to living true―true to themselves and to each other.
Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account 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.
Love Warrior should be on your TO READ list, and then on your next BOOK CLUB list! To say that this book gutted me is a vast understatement. Reading it caused me to revisit some of the darkest and most painful times of my life. But going back to rock bottom isn’t a bad thing, as Glennon shares in this gem. Rock bottom is a place of discovering the fire inside of ourselves that can lead us to truer connections, deeper conversations and our most authentic life. That’s work worth doing.Â
Love Hurts. My wife’s a huge Glennon fan, so I entered and won one of the advanced copies of the book to share with her. Glennon is brutally honest about the complexities of relationships and takes the reader through the process of how she and her husband put their marriage back together brick by brick. She goes into lots of detail about the importance of being a healthy person and her process to cope with her own pathological thinking. In particular her body image issues reveal a extreme struggle to be…
Intensely voyeuristic So–I often love Glennon’s writing. Love Momastery. Have contributed to Together Rising. Etc.Â