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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
Just okay. Her blog covers most of the same stuff. She has some interesting thoughts about honesty and authenticity, but she also seems to rush towards magic solutions (yoga! Mary! Cheeseburgers!)
It all feels rushed and like she's trying to prove something (mental health? happiness?) that isn't true.
It all feels rushed and like she's trying to prove something (mental health? happiness?) that isn't true.
wow. this chick is batshit crazy. she makes bad choice after bad choice trying to "fix" things.
enough already with the "inner self" and "inner feelings". they are just FEELINGS.
your remote control isn't oppressing you because you don't know how to use it. Google it and figure it out.
The only thing I liked about this book was when she talked to her kids about "sexy". but that was something I've known for a very long time.
and spoiler alert. when I googled Glennon, she's divorced from her hubby and engaged to Rochester native Abby Wambach.
enough already with the "inner self" and "inner feelings". they are just FEELINGS.
your remote control isn't oppressing you because you don't know how to use it. Google it and figure it out.
The only thing I liked about this book was when she talked to her kids about "sexy". but that was something I've known for a very long time.
and spoiler alert. when I googled Glennon, she's divorced from her hubby and engaged to Rochester native Abby Wambach.
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
3.5/5. Brutally honest and raw. I wish there was an addendum in it since that was more recent since their lives have changed quite a bit since this war written. But I found this one to be both harder to read but also more enjoyable than her first book. I find that passages resonated with me in a way that I couldn't stop thinking about them, but I also, at times found the book a bit repetitive. Recommended for the hard times in life.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
The first half of this book was a little slow, and wasn't really working for me. The second half more than made up for it. It was so beautiful and filled with so much truth. There were so many things that I needed to hear. I loved it.
Wow. Just wow. I just finished Love Warrior and I am left speechless. Love Warrior is a memoir from Glennon Doyle Melton detailing her life and marriage, but it is so much more than just a memoir. It is a song to every woman who has struggled with a feeling of not being enough and for those who have accepted the voice of society telling us to stay small.
I had followed Melton’s blog (Momastery) for a long time and on the periphery I knew her story — the story that her marriage crumbled, that she went back on forth on staying or leaving and that so many of her followers felt it was their right to tell her what to do. And all the while, I saw a woman struggling with making the right choice for herself and her family with grace and openness in the spotlight. With Love Warrior she opens the door even wider to talk about what she learned about herself through that experience and the process of reuniting her mind, body and spirit. She talks about the journey that lead her to her marriage to Craig and the “representative” self she shows to the world because early she received the message that her true self was too messy for the world.
Read the rest of my review: https://whatwouldjoannaread.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/love-warrior/
I had followed Melton’s blog (Momastery) for a long time and on the periphery I knew her story — the story that her marriage crumbled, that she went back on forth on staying or leaving and that so many of her followers felt it was their right to tell her what to do. And all the while, I saw a woman struggling with making the right choice for herself and her family with grace and openness in the spotlight. With Love Warrior she opens the door even wider to talk about what she learned about herself through that experience and the process of reuniting her mind, body and spirit. She talks about the journey that lead her to her marriage to Craig and the “representative” self she shows to the world because early she received the message that her true self was too messy for the world.
Read the rest of my review: https://whatwouldjoannaread.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/love-warrior/
I am very divided about this book... in turns, I thought it was both revelatory and annoying. I felt that much of the tone sounded as if she was blaming the outside world for her problems instead of taking responsibility for her actions, but she did learn to rise above the outside world and live fully in spite of its unrealistic expectations. I appreciated the idea that there are many ways to meet God but felt that the "modern" take on Christianity was a little heavy-handed in the final third of the book. Good things to pull from this, but overall, especially considering the ultimate outcome of all this hard work she put into her marriage and into becoming a warrior, she walked away and perhaps wasn't a true warrior after all.