October Memoir Pick: Love Warrior!
I loved reading this memoir because Doyle is a narrator that feels like a friend, somebody you would want to have coffee with and exchange life stories. In Love Warrior, Doyle takes the reader on a journey of what’s going on underneath the surface of her picturesque life. On the outside, Doyle is a bubbly, trim, blonde wife, mother, and teacher. She appears to have it all together, but on the inside, she has become a shell of herself.
In this memoir, Doyle is struggling with the following 3 things: She is desperately worried what people will think about her. She is a crippling people pleaser. She is very empathic, taking on everyone’s emotional hardships around her. This all results in the development of two mental health conditions. Alcoholism and an eating disorder. This book is raw and redemptive because it shows how wondrous your life can become when you learn to admit you don’t have it all figured out and ask for help.
Celebrating NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH MONTH, here are a few more reasons to read LOVE WARRIOR!
1. Love Warrior reveals that no family is perfect, no matter how hard they appear to be.
Sometimes it’s hard to understand how somebody whose life looks seemingly perfect on the outside could fall fate to an addiction. Doyle sheds all stereotypes of the “perfect family.” It doesn’t exist. She knows. Because she appeared to be one.
2. Doyle reveals how the pressure of a women in society to be fit, trim, kind, obedient, and accommodating, often corrupt the ability for a woman to be her true self.
If you are a female. If you are a father raising a daughter, please read this book! Love Warrior reveals how influential the media is to little girls, and why girls (as young as middle school) are now developing addictions. If you’ve ever wondered what a woman has to battle internally, simply to be seen, this book will show you!
3. Doyle owns her mental health challenges without SHAME and shows her readers how to do it too.
The key to overcoming anxiety, depression, or an addiction is admitting you have a problem swirling around inside if you. Doyle is the first to remind the reader that healing is not possible, until you can be honest with yourself and admit…hey, I think I might need help.
