Love Warrior – my takeaways

Holy smokes! I just finished reading ‘Love Warrior‘ by Glennon Doyle Melton.  What a great writer!  She has such a gift with words!  When I grow up, I want to be her!  I just love how I keep asking for more and more insight, and the universe keeps on delivering.  This book was raw, humbling and uplifting. She articulated her experience with her body issues that I could relate to in a way I’ve never heard them explained before.  I know exactly what she was going through because I experience these feelings too.

For a while now, I feel that I have been on an amazing self discovery journey, but can’t figure out why things are not happening for me in the area of body connection and weight loss. I’ve been cleared the chaos and gained perspective in my life, but I can’t seem to lose weight. Glennon explains that we are like a triangle.  Mind, body & spirit.  I’ve been missing a piece, the body piece of the triangle.

Mind Body Spirit 

This totally makes sense to me.  I have not fully trusted and lived in my body. So much of what what she explained about her intimacy and body issues I can relate to.  Her fear of intimacy, not wanting to be touched, using food, TV, Facebook and as distraction from actually feeling her feelings are exactly what I’ve been missing. I’m grateful for the revelation, now putting it into practice, that’s the tough part.

At the end of the book, she starts using her experience of new found view of God to teach kids at her church and her explanation of love to her kids.  THIS is what I want.  I want to teach about the unconditional love that is in all of us.  There are no conditions.  There may be cultural or dogmatic rules, but these are open to interpretation.  Everyone is the same, we are all love, we are all equal.  We are one.

I really loved this book, and would recommend it to anyone who has faced any kind of body issue or to anyone who can read.  I loved all of it!

Update – February 7, 2017 – This book, along with lots of grounding work, helped me start the healing process in my marriage.  I was able to ground myself in a vision of what I wanted for myself and our marriage instead of focusing on all the things I was not getting.  I took a stand for our marriage and most importantly, myself.  It has change the trajectory from a hopeless outlook at a hopeful one.  I am grateful.  Thank you Glennon!