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
To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties,… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“I look away, farther down the hall, and I see Tish in line with her Sunday school class. Tish sees me and… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“We begin to understand that to co-parent is to one day look up and notice that you are on a roller coaster… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I realized I didn't just want to parent children in my own little home but to mother the whole world. What's the… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you love someone like a mother loves her child, that love can turn into fear. It happens to me all… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I think that in order to parent effectively, we are going to have to admit two things: We can't keep our children… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“quit trying to become a better parent and decided to try becoming a better person.” — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Being a mother is a little like 'Groundhog's Day.' It's getting out of bed and doing the exact same things again and… — 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
