- The author of Untamed revealed that she has anorexia and is recovering from it.
- She was given the unexpected diagnosis of anorexia.
- Glennon acknowledged that she felt humiliated by her ignorance about the condition.
Glennon Doyle has become more open about having an eating condition. The author of Untamed revealed that she has anorexia and is recovering from bulimia in a recent edition of her podcast, We Can Do Hard Things.
“There is no way I can explain to you the level of bafflement, shock, denial, confusion,” she recalled on the Jan. 2 episode, according to People. “I said [to the doctors], ‘I am a bulimic and I have been recovered and I am having relapses, and I just need to understand how to get these relapses of my bulimia under control so I can be less scared and freer and not in danger.'”
Glennon revealed that after being examined by her doctors, she was given the unexpected diagnosis of having anorexia.
“The shift of my identity as bulimic, bulimic, bulimic… anorexia is a totally different thing,” the 46-year-old author said. “It’s like a different religion. It’s a different identity. It’s a different way of thinking. It’s so confusing and it shook me very deeply. And I did not believe it.”
Glennon described a challenging talk she had with her wife Abby Wambach, who is a co-host on the podcast along with her sister Amanda Doyle. Abby Wambach said, “I can’t do this for you,” and Glennon recalled that moment.
“This was a hard thing for me to say,” Abby told Glennon on the episode. “I knew I had to say it. It had to be out loud because you needed to take complete ownership over this process.”
Glennon went on: “Never have I felt so alone from my own body. Everyone keeps reminding me that I’m the one who is ill and that I must also treat the illness.”
Glennon replied that in order to determine how to properly educate herself, she had chosen to turn to read books on anorexia.
“It was a big shift in thinking for me,” she said. “I don’t know how to explain the feeling of reading things that you thought were part of your personality and who you were, and reading that they’re actually just a collection of symptoms, of an effing disease.”
Glennon acknowledged that she felt humiliated by her ignorance about the condition.
She explained, “It was stunning to be a person whose life and work is about self-examination, is about discovering the nuance and minutiae of who we are and talking about it every day and then not knowing this information about yourself. It’s humiliating on a level.”
Glennon gave an explanation of her decision to be transparent about her rehabilitation process on her Instagram.
In a post on January 3, she stated, “I’m not waiting to talk until I get my ‘tada’ moment because if I do, I’ll never speak. We’ll be complicated, messy, and fearful this year, but we’ll still show up.
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