YouTube video transcript: two speakers (A and B) discuss how books — specifically Untamed by Glennon Doyle — influenced personal recovery, identity and authenticity. Speakers share childhood trauma and feelings of inauthenticity, framing books as pathways to imagining escape and self-reclamation.
This time on books that changed my life.
Ten is when we learn how to be good girls and real boys. 10 is when children begin to hide who they are in order to become what the world expects them to be. So at 10 years old, I was told that being a good girl was letting boys do anything to you, to letting adults do anything to you, and you just keeping your mouth shut.
There's something really powerful in a negative way that happens when. When you're a kid and the adults that you trust for basically everything can't be trusted.
Books allowed me to imagine a way out of no way.
Just like the book had that effect on you. There's so many people out there that feel like they don't fit in, that feel inauthentic. They're trying to please.
It's so hard.
It's really hard.
I was just a caged girl made for wide open skies. I wasn't crazy. I was a goddamn cheetah.
Then the big question, how did Untamed by Glennon Doyle change your life?
