Emily Kitazawa, Author at Shortform Books

Always Trust Your Instincts—You Know Yourself Best

Why is it so important to always trust your instincts? What happens if you don’t listen to your instincts? The tendency to look to others for validation has diminished your ability to tap into your intuition and trust your decisions. Author Glennon Doyle explains how you can learn to always trust your instincts through quiet reflection. Read on to find out why trusting your gut feeling is crucial for happiness and learn to recover your capacity for believing your instincts.

How to Connect With Yourself in a Disapproving Society

How does society suppress our true selves? What does it really mean to connect with yourself? Author Glennon Doyle observes that women are conditioned to please and seek approval from others—as a result, they don’t often trust their instincts and search externally for advice and validation. She wanted to find a way to connect with herself deeply to make decisions that were based on her inner wisdom and intuition rather than the opinions of outside sources. Read on to find out why connecting with yourself frees you from being controlled by society’s expectations and empowers you to make your own

What Glennon Doyle’s Cheetah Story Really Means

Does society suppress our primal instincts? How can we reconnect with our true selves? Glennon Doyle’s cheetah story from her book Untamed explains to readers how society holds you captive. The cheetah in Untamed demonstrates how society has limited women’s primal instincts. According to Doyle, getting back in touch with your wild sides frees you from rigid expectations. Read on to find out what Glennon Doyle’s cheetah story really means for women in today’s society and Doyle’s advice for breaking free.

Glennon Doyle’s Untamed: Overview & Key Advice

Are women conditioned to suppress their true identities? How does society feed into this problem? How can we make a change? Glennon Doyle’s Untamed shows how the author freed herself from the captivity of society’s expectations. The Untamed book offers insight on the issues of parenting, spirituality, empowering women, rejecting patriarchy and oppression, feminism, and sexuality. Read our overview of Glennon Doyle’s Untamed to find out Doyle’s advice for changing your life and living according to your own rules.

Expectations of Women: Society Is Holding You Captive

Do you ever feel held captive by society’s rules? Does being a woman in today’s society require conformity to stereotypes? How can you set yourself free? Author Glennon Doyle discovered four pathways to help women reconnect with themselves: embracing emotion, intuition, imagination, and reconstruction. Additionally, embracing your wildness allows you to live free from society’s expectations of women. Read on to learn why society’s expectations of women are unrealistic and how one woman broke free from this captivity.