“We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other's pain. Maybe that's why we all feel like failures… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Sometimes the rewards of risk don't leave us wrecked. Sometimes we find our passion, our purpose, courage, connection, and comfort. Every good thing in… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Grief is nothing but a painful waiting, a horrible patience. Grief cannot be torn down or scaled or overcome or outsmarted. It can only… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“I'm trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Each day, we're making sandcastles I know will be washed away. I long for something solid, lasting, strong between us.” — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties, and others'… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Rock bottom is a crisis... and everyone wants to avoid crisis. But what 'crisis' means literally is 'to sift' - like a child who… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It's less sweep you off… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“The sun shows up every morning, no matter how bad youve been the night before. It shines without judgment. It never withholds. It warms… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
