Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle

Sep 22
3 min read

Updated: Sep 22

Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle is a bestselling memoir of marriage, addiction, betrayal, and repair that follows her through bulimia and alcohol use, the discovery of infidelity, separation, intensive therapy, and a hard-won attempt at reconciliation rooted in truth and self-respect. An Oprah’s Book Club selection and a number one New York Times bestseller, Love Warrior blends confessional clarity with feminist insight to examine body image, sexuality, faith, motherhood, boundaries, and the daily practice of choosing integrity over approval. Ideal for readers of contemporary memoir, recovery and relationship narratives, women’s empowerment, and personal growth.

About Love Warrior

Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle is a memoir of struggle and repair that follows her through addiction, infidelity, separation, and the hard work of self-reclamation. The narrative tracks marriage under pressure, the implosion of a public life built on performance, and a return to truth that reshapes mothering, partnership, and the self. Doyle writes with close attention to the body, to cravings and silence, and to the moments when honesty begins to replace image.

Why Read Love Warrior

Readers meet a voice that refuses to be varnished. Doyle names fear, shame, and hunger with clarity and then shows choices made on ordinary days that move a life toward integrity. The book provides language for setting boundaries, tools for navigating difficult conversations, and a model of repair that acknowledges and addresses grief. It speaks to anyone who has felt trapped inside roles and who wants a practical account of how to step out of them.

Key Takeaways

Vulnerability is a discipline that builds connection and not a weakness to hide. Truth-telling becomes a practice that heals relationships and the self. Self-respect and acceptance form the ground of durable love. Marriage can be reimagined as a partnership rooted in honesty, consent, and mutual growth rather than performance.

Doyle writes from lived experience with bulimia and alcohol use that began in adolescence. She traces addiction to unaddressed pain, perfectionism, and the urge to disappear. Recovery unfolds through confession, community, therapy, and daily choices that favor presence over numbness. She names addiction as a hiding place and shows what happens when hiding ends.

Spiritual life evolves across the book. Fear-based belief gives way to a gentler faith organized around love, worth, and compassion. Breath and stillness anchor that turn. Doyle learns to sit, to listen, and to trust a quiet interior guidance that steadies her choices. Faith becomes practice in rooms and moments rather than a performance for an audience.

About Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle is a bestselling writer, activist, and the founder of Together Rising, a nonprofit that funds rapid-response aid for families and communities in crisis. She built a large readership through her memoirs, including Untamed, Love Warrior, and Carry On, Warrior, books that explore self-trust, recovery, marriage, parenting, and the hard work of rebuilding a life with integrity. Her prose is candid and closely observed, often drawing on her history with addiction and the long arc of sobriety. People magazine once called her the “patron saint of female empowerment,” a label earned through plainspoken essays, live events, and sustained philanthropy. She hosts the podcast We Can Do Hard Things, where she and guests examine boundaries, mental health, friendship, and love with the same clarity found in her books. Doyle lives in California with her wife, Abby Wambach, and their three children.