#179: GLENNON DOYLE MELTON: LOVE WARRIOR TRAINING

LOVE WARRIOR TRAINING: GLENNON DOYLE MELTON PODCAST #179 In this week’s episode of Confidence on the Go, we’re chatting with Glennon Doyle Melton about her newest book, Love Warrior and dig into: * What being a love warrior is and how to become one in real life * Glennon’s experience on learning how to transition from self-betrayal to self-trust * The real definition of success when you live life as a love warrior Just a quick hello to all of my Keep the Faith listeners out there – thanks for being part of the community of contagious encouragement. SPONSORSHIP NOTE: I am proud to be an educator and consultant for Beautycounter, a B-Corp company on a mission to get safer products into the hands of everyone.   The lack of regulation in the personal care and cosmetic industry is astounding and it is harming our health in very serious ways. We need more voices to join up on our mission. If you want to put your passion to purpose while being generously compensated, then I would love to start a conversation with you about what it means to be involved in the #saferbeauty tribe that is Beautycounter. Join the movement of #betterbeauty and message me via email to make your voice really resonate for a cause. ABOUT GLENNON DOYLE MELTON For twenty years Glennon was lost to bulimia and alcoholism and bad love and drugs. She suffered. Her family suffered. She had a relatively magical childhood, which added an extra layer of guilt to her pain and confusion. Glennon – why are you all jacked up when you have no excuse to be all jacked up? Her best guess is that she was born with an extra dose of sensitivity to love and pain. She didn’t want to walk through the battlefield of life naked. So when she was ten years old, she made up her own little world called addiction and she hid there for decades. She felt safe. No one could touch her. On Mother’s Day 2002, unwed and addicted, she found herself holding a positive pregnancy test. For the first time in her life – she wanted something more than she wanted to be number. She decided to become a mother and vowed to never again have another drink, cigarette, drug, unhealthy relationship or food binge. She found herself marrying her son’s father. She’s the mother of three kids, two mutts, the community of Momastery truth tellers, is a Sunday School teacher, and an award-winning blogger. Glennon Doyle Melton is the author of the New York Times bestseller Carry On, Warrior and the founder of the online community Momastery, where she reaches more than one million people each day. She is also the creator and president of Together Rising, a nonprofit organization that has raised close to five million dollars for families around the world through its Love Flash Mobs, which have revolutionized online giving. Glennon is a sought-afer public speaker and her work has been featured on The TODAY Show, The Talk, OWN, NPR; and in The New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, Glamour, Familiy Circle, Parents Magazine, Newsweek, Woman’s Day, The Huffington Post; and in other television and print outlets. Glennon lives in Florida with her family.  Underneath and on top of all that she’s a Recovering Everything. She’s prouder of that title than she is of any other. Every morning she opens her eyes and immediately understand that she is still that girl on the bathroom floor, holding that pregnancy test like a tarrying invitation, trying to decide whether to stay down on the cold floor or get up and show up for her life. Most days she decides to show up,