Glennon doyle biography

This article originally appears in the June issue of ELLE.

Let's pretend for a minute that it's early and you are Glennon Doyle Melton—wife, mother, spiritual exemplar, sun-bronzed poster girl for a kind of messy, beautiful domestic imperfection that, somehow, makes you even more perfect. You're the world's most famous Christian mommy blogger, a heroine and role model to your one million social media followers. Your first memoir, Carry On, Warrior, was a best-seller. Now you're about to release your second—Love Warrior, a gripping chronicle of how you saved your marriage following your husband Craig's infidelity. The book ends with you and Craig standing on the beach facing the Gulf of Mexico, renewing your vows and affirming the gritty path of the Warrior: "Love, Pain, Life: I am not afraid. I was born to do this."

And then, right before the book is published, you attend a literary conference and spot a woman across the room. She has spiky, platinum-tipped hair, an impish smile, and calf muscles the size of tree trunks. She is U.S. soccer superstar Abby Wambach. And you know instantly that she is the love of your life. What do you do?

"You enter the process of deciding whether you're going to risk every single thing in your life to have the one thing you've always wanted," Melton tells me, sitting on a buff-colored sofa in her beachy Naples, Florida, bungalow. Outside, a sparkling pool ripples quietly, and the banyan trees rustle in the breeze. Beams of light filter in through the bay windows, dappling the milky wooden floor. Melton—gorgeous, barefoot, and waiflike in her rolled-up size zero jeans—hugs her knees and tucks a loose strand of blond hair behind her ear. "I've never believed in or understood romantic love," she says. "Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me. But when Abby walked into that room, I actually felt the words There she is. This was just an ab

American author (born )

Glennon Doyle (born March 20, ) is an American author and queer activist known for her books Untamed,Love Warrior, and Carry On, Warrior. Doyle is also the creator of the online community Momastery, and is the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women-led nonprofit organization supporting women, families, and children in crisis.

Early life and education

Doyle was born in Burke, Virginia, and was raised with one sister, Amanda Doyle. She writes and speaks frequently about early struggles with bulimia and addiction. In her TEDx talk "Lessons from the Mental Hospital", she discusses time spent in a mental hospital when she was a teenager. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at James Madison University in Following graduation, she became a teacher in Northern Virginia.

Career

In , Doyle began writing online with her blog Momastery as a way to share "a look at her life as a progressive Christian raising three children." This was the start of her writing career and led to her first book, a memoir titled Carry On, Warrior, in This book unifies faith with themes of honesty and authenticity, but her subsequent writings shift further away from having a core religious focus.

In , a follow-up memoir, Love Warrior was released. In September , it was selected to be a part of Oprah's Book Club

A third memoir, Untamed, was published in ^[

There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world and wonder: Wasn’t it all supposed to be more beautiful than this?  We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful. We hide our simmering discontent — even from ourselves. Until we reach our boiling point.

Seven years ago, I reached my boiling point. I was speaking at a conference when a woman entered the room. I looked at her and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded my mind: There She Is. At first, I assumed these words came to me from on high. Soon I realized that they came to me from within.

I was finally hearing my own voice—the voice that had been silenced by decades of cultural conditioning, numbing addictions, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl I had been before the world told me who to be. I vowed to never again abandon myself. I decided to build a life of my own – one based on my individual desire, intuition and imagination. I would reclaim my true, untamed self.

When we quit abandoning ourselves and instead abandon the world’s expectations of us, we become women who can finally look at our lives and recognize: There She Is. My book, UNTAMED, is about how to be brave. Here is what I’ve learned: The braver we are, the luckier we get.

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GLENNON DOYLE
Author, Activist, Founder of Together Rising, and Host of the We Can Do Hard Things Podcast.

Glennon Doyle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller UNTAMED a Reese’s Book Club selection, which has sold over two million copies. She is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller LOVE WARRIOR, an Oprah&#;s Book Club selection,as well as the New York Times bestselle

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