A hard hitting and powerful book; the wisdom is invaluable and the words honest and raw. The book starts with an encounter with a tigress in a cage. Doyle Uses the allegory of the tigress and it’s ‘knowing’ of a life beyond the cage, to draw comparisons to our own world. One, where, like the tigress, we can all feel caged, even if our bars are different and often unidentifiable.  Like the tigress, we nurture the knowledge and the knowing of that life beyond the cage. Even if the tigress has never lived it; she can still breathe it, feel it, taste it. It is a ‘remembering’ somewhere deep in her DNA. This book explores that knowing. The ‘knowing’ that a woman has, which tells her she is something more than the boundaries society places on her, even if she does not know exactly what that is.

We can all feel caged in some way and this book brings to light, through the antidotes of the authors world, those cages. It is truth presented in bite sized pieces to digest and then reflect upon each well placed word. Doyle has laid bare her soul and shared her wisdom in the form of her life stories with relevant morals to woman living in today’s world, far beyond anything I personally have ever read.

This review is a thank you to Glennon Doyle.

 Thank you for your honesty. Your honesty is other people’s truths, however you are unafraid to share that honesty and give a voice to fractured thoughts and fleeting feelings with no name.

Thank you for sharing with me facts, that I did not know that I did not know, which resulted in shifting my whole perspective and enhancing my personal growth.

Thank you for sharing your parenting antidotes so I can look at my own parenting style and  my children in an insightful and thought provoking way, with the hope of making changes so they can become the people they were meant to be, not the people I think they should be.

Thank you for challenging my view of racism, before the black lives matter protests in May 2020 and allowing me the space to recognise my inherent racism as a white woman, by challenging my belief that because I do not see a person as a colour and my belief that all people get an equal chance at life, that this is the way the world actually is. I was wrong on both counts.

 I cannot heap enough praise on this book, the way it subtly challenges my beliefs, allowed reflection on my life, and changed my world view on so many topics. I think this book has the most book marked pages ever. It is one of the best books I have ever read and the knowledge is invaluable for all aspects of my life and other women’s too.