Love Warrior

Love Warrior delves into the life of Glennon Doyle, a woman who battled with self-destructive behaviors, eating disorders, depression, and many more challenges before finally embracing the life she deserved and started living meaningfully while being true to herself.

Glennon Doyle was just another girl in college trying to fit in. She had a problem with her image and often fell for social standards when it came to choosing health over appearances. Like many of us, she ignored her problems in the hope they would go away – but they didn’t.

In fact, she used her problem to hide from the world. Bulimia served as a way to lose weight and fit in with the other girls with eating disorders, and excessive alcohol helped her be more fun at parties.

It’s not uncommon for people to hide their problems under basic pretexts and go on with their daily lives. Over the years, bulimia and, later, alcoholism had provided her with a hiding place where she didn’t have to confront her problems, till everything collapsed.

Then, something happened: Glennon found herself in recovery. After getting married, she realized that neither marriage, a loving husband, nor her kids would help her become healthy again. Now it’s time for you to learn that too and realize you’re not alone.

Just like she found a new way of being herself: one where the vulnerability was no longer scary, but empowering instead, you can too!

Sometimes we have to know rock bottom before we can fully recover. That’s what happened to Glennon when she found out about Craig’s affairs.

She also found out that he’s been cheating in between her three pregnancies. After a somewhat peaceful time in her life after thinking that she fully overcame bulimia and her alcohol addiction, this devastating news arises.

What could be worse? Nothing, she finds. Without anything to lose, she starts to finally listen to her inner voice that she’s been shutting down her entire life. She starts writing, and it sets her heart free. Expressing her thoughts gained her online virality, although this wasn’t her aim.

It was in this period of darkness that she wrote “Love Warrior.” This book tells the story of how she found healing from the pain of infidelity and began to understand herself better as a result of it—a process that eventually led her back to Craig.

It was then that she discovered that her life lifelong lesson was to listen to her inner voice more and stop being a people pleaser or silencing her problems. That’s when things really take a turn and you can discover your true calling.