An important piece of advice she wants to share with young men:<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cMy biggest advice to any young man \u2013 and I tell my boys this all the time \u2013 there is nothing sexier than seeing a man with a book in his hands reading.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the abuse she faced in childhood and how she saw that reflected in Untamed<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cThe first chapter in [Untamed<\/em>]\u2026[Glennon<\/strong>] talks about being 10 years old and at 10 years old that\u2019s when we\u2019re taught what it looks like to be a \u2018good girl.\u2019 At 10 years old is when [the sexual abuse] happened to me, and I was silenced, and wasn\u2019t allowed to actually say what happened to me. And so at 10 years old, I was told that being a \u2018good girl\u2019 was letting boys do anything to you and keeping your mouth shut, letting adults do anything to you and keeping your mouth shut, that my life was not worthy of protection, that there was something so deeply broken and unloveable about me that I didn\u2019t deserve that. That\u2019s when the disordered eating started \u2013 just like Glennon<\/strong>. I just began to disappear. Man, did it take me decades to untangle that and learn to love myself, and this book was such a huge part of me being able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\nOn knowing she needed to save herself after a stretch of making bad decisions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cI woke up that morning and looked myself in the mirror \u2013 I\u2019m a big faith person \u2013 and I just did not see God in myself anymore. We are created in the image of likeness and I did not recognize myself. The first book I picked up after that was Anatomy of a Spirit<\/em> and just kept reading and reading and reading and got into much needed recovery for disordered eating. That\u2019s where [that thinking] began \u2013 \u201cI have to save myself because nobody\u2019s coming to save me.\u201d <\/p>\nOn not believing in marriage before 30:<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t really believe in marriage before the age of 30. People who get married in their 20s, I\u2019m like, how?? Maybe they weren\u2019t the mess that I was in my 20s but\u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n
On feeling the soul of her child around her before he was born:<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cI didn\u2019t know if I wanted kids because everything I had gone through when I was a kid\u2026but then something came over me at 33 and I could feel this little soul floating around me and I knew it belonged to me \u2013 I was supposed to help bring this soul into the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was a kid, I communicated with the other side all the time\u2026Conversations about what it felt like to be on the other side. That was so much of my childhood and when this incident happened to me at 10, it just went away. Until, one day, I\u2019m 33 and I\u2019m like, I feel this energy, this soul, around me and i just kept sitting with it. I think it\u2019s supposed to be my baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
On discovering Glennon Doyle and Untamed<\/em>:
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\u201cI had been following Glennon<\/strong>\u2026when she began to post about this I was like, \u2018oh this is different.\u2019 I would read anything that she wrote. I think I devoured the book in two days. I could not stop. I read it again and again and bought it on Audible and I just kept listening to it until I could repeat the words back to myself. And then I proceeded to buy it for every woman on every set I was on for years. I\u2019ve probably bought between 60 and 70 copies of this book for people.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI love to find that perfect book for somebody and give it to them at that perfect time. Because books have changed my life throughout my life in so many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n