Untamed is the third book in my feminine spirituality series, the first being Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey and the second being Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr.

It's basically criminal that I haven't read this book yet... Liz read it in 2020, loved it, and blogged about it here. I didn't read it then because I didn't think it was "for" me - I hadn't learned that (as I wrote in my Wild Mercy review) that masculine or feminine "wisdom is not exclusively applicable or appropriately mapped to any one sex or gender identity."

I thought this book was awesome, and full of wonderful spiritual and non-spiritual wisdom. As usual, I finished this book and waited a few months to write, just so I could have some time to process. The idea that has most deeply stuck with me is about creatively and boredom; Glennon says:

"I find myself worrying most that when we hand our children phones we steal their boredom from them. As a result, we are raising a generation of writers who will never start writing, artists who will never start doodling, chefs who will never make a mess of the kitchen, athletes who will never kick a ball against the wall, musicians who will never pick up their aunt's guitar and start strumming"

This idea has slowly been blooming within me, and has helped me reshape some of my phone use habits, yet again, around preserving boredom and decompression time.

This book is also amazing just because it does such a phenomenal job articulating the deep frustration and ambivalence that Glennon feels (and that I imagine many women feel) about being a member of a religion that is essentially "by men, for men": that religion being Christianity. Glennon really shows up in this book, expressing really raw and honest anger and confusion, and also earnestness and a desire for truth, goodness and beauty.

It's sort of a messy, scattered book - it takes a while to settle into her brainstorm-y style. But the book rocked.