If there was a picture of my life’s path you would see our footprints side by side and then you’d notice that one day I sat down in the sand and refused to travel any farther. It's about shameless sex, God, food, drugs, porn and tenderness—and how the dirt and the divine are so often inseparable. My sister's legs are long and she uses them to move through the world easily and beautifully and confidently. So what do we do with the fact that she joined the Belong tour, which is described as “the successor, or reboot, of ‘Women of Faith’”? Love Warrior presents an intense and absorbing narrative while reaching for something bigger and more quixotic, the mystery of intimacy itself.

I fell in love with Glennon Doyle Melton’s book “Love Warrior” earlier this year and can’t recommend it highly enough! It’s about one woman letting go of the gendered messages she’s been surrounded by her entire life, and communing with her fullest, most authentic self. Now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, “For the same reason I laugh so often—because I’m paying attention. Many of my clients describe themselves as “overly sensitive,” and explain that this is one of their traits they need to “fix. The leaves, my soon-to-be husband, our families sitting upright in their dressiest clothes, and I—we are all turning into something else.During this trip, Caren would make me over, change me into someone who looked like her, smelled like her, flitted like her.

When she's dressed, we take turns leaning over and kissing her cheeks while she kicks and giggles — her arms jutting straight out from her sides like a starfish.We turn and process out through the crowd—no longer an island, now a parade—and people smile and wave and the four of us hold hands and sing the high school’s fight song all the way back to the van. She gives words to things many women have felt or experienced yet may have been unable to form into cohesive thoughts or sentences. Love Warrior is the story of one marriage, but it is also the story of the healing that is possible for any of us when we refuse to settle for good enough and begin to face pain and love head-on. 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. I read the pitch for the book, about how Melton fought through bulimia and alcoholism to embrace motherhood, only to discover later in life that she would face the toughest rock bottom News of all---her husband was a serial adulterer.

I’m sixteen years old and I want my world to be small again—just kittens and dogs and my best friend.I start to feel heavier and heavier against the porcelain tub, as if gravity is increasing exponentially, as if I am being sucked toward the center of the earth. I’m desperate to get to the other side of the wall so I can see what’s waiting for me down the path. Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are born to be warriors: strong, powerful, and brave; able to confront the pain and claim the love that exists for us all. I have long admired the work of Glennon Doyle both her writing and her mission but with Love Warrior, she has outdone herself. The result of this may be an erosion of our sense of self-worth and confidence, which can lead us to engage in self-destructive behaviors or actions that harm those around us.

Even once she rejected these unhealthy behaviors, choosing sobriety when she became unintentionally pregnant again on the heels of an abortion, she turned to motherhood, marriage, and writing to supply the answer to her deep brokenness and longings.I pursue no interest in college, other than booze, boys, and getting ready to go booze with the boys. You don't have to agree with everything she says but by reading it you'll surely start to review lots of things that need reviewing in your life. Other times you'll feel like you're going round in circles, she is being overly emotional, overly sensitive, you'll want her to get a grip already and share the solutions she has found for herself. You would be able tell by her footprints that she stood still for years, wondering why I was too afraid to keep walking.