I read it cover to cover in 48 hours with a pen in my hand writing 'This' in the margins as I came across something that chimed deeply with me, another thing I knew, but hadn't found the words for yet. When we reach the entrance, the ticket ladies smile, put their hands over their hearts, and say, “Aren’t you three the most precious things? So every morning before I walk into high school I tell myself, Just hold your breath 'til you get home. I pursue no interest in college, other than booze, boys, and getting ready to go booze with the boys.

But it doesn’t spare any details on just how difficult of a process it can be to learn to reconnect with yourself. I go home after freshman year and through a disciplined regimen of restricted eating, excessive exercise, and bulimia, I lose fifteen pounds. But even though I’d finished the book, was overcome with emotion in response to it, and had bought copies to gift to my friends, I still didn’t have a clear answer to that question. But this book was just released in September and she is already pronouncing her love for another woman. Glennon is a sought-after public speaker, and her work has been featured on The TODAY Show, The Talk , OWN, and NPR; in The New York Times , Ladies’ Home Journal, Glamour , Family Circle , Parents Magazine, Newsweek , Woman’s Day , and The Huffington Post ; and in other television and print outlets.

My sister’s legs are long and she uses them to move through the world easily and beautifully and confidently. This chronicle of a beautiful, brutal journey speaks to anyone who yearns for deeper, truer relationships and a more abundant, authentic life. There, in the passenger seat, being driven by this graduate—looking up at the stars through his sunroof—I feel free and important and lucky and powerful. Years later, when I become less beautiful, when I no longer have regal ringlets to pat or perfect skin to admire, when I’m no longer small and simple and precious, I wonder how I’ll ever be worthy of offering or receiving love. A vital and much-needed sister memoir to Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love from the New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, on her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.

During this trip, Caren would make me over, change me into someone who looked like her, smelled like her, flitted like her. Love Warrior is the offering I’ve been working on in the dark every day for the past three and a half years. There is them and there is me and I can’t fit into their world and they cannot, should not, go with me into mine. I now combine my international experience with my background in psychology to help global nomads around the world make the shift from merely surviving to thriving abroad. 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.Like big was something inevitably unfolding inside of her that threatened her contract with the world. And this is where the real danger—and perhaps appeal—for readers comes in: If we trust Melton and what she proclaims, we will become our own gods too. This chronicle of a beautiful, brutal journey speaks to anyone who yearns for deeper, truer relationships and a more abundant, authentic life. It was Painfully true and so scary because I felt every word because it’s my story too as it must be for many others. The leaves, my soon-to-be husband, our families sitting upright in their dressiest clothes, and I—we are all turning into something else.