So here lies my primary concern about the book: many Christians are reading and recommending Untamed without filtering it through a gospel grid. This concept of freedom is quite different than Glennon’s, who is championing Eve as a model for “owning your wanting.” However, as Christians, we know that since the fall of man our natural state is in bondage to sin.Īs a believer, I'm so grateful that I have not been left in this condition, but that Jesus has set me free from the enslaving power of sin and given me new life. Using the analogy of a caged cheetah, Glennon encourages readers to break away from what tames us in order to live free in our natural state. Under the guise of a Christian label (which understandably is beckoning Christians to read it), Untamed, is currently #1 on the Amazon list, right ahead of Jennie Allen’s Get Out of Your Head. While Glennon does not view this book as Christian (or identify herself necessarily to be a Christian anymore), the book is listed on Amazon under the Christian self-help category. I picked it up not because of this prestigious accomplishment, but because I pay attention to what Christians are reading and talking about. In ' Untamed,' Doyle said she had been admitted to a mental-health clinic in high school, where they diagnosed her with bulimia.For months now, Glennon Doyle’s newest release, Untamed, has remained on the New York Times Best Seller list. (Claudat was not involved in Doyle's diagnosis or treatment.)Ĭlaudat told Insider many patients experience 'diagnostic migration,' or changes in diagnosis, because eating disorders are usually chronic conditions that persist throughout the lifetime.īulimia nervosa is a mental-health disorder characterized by cycles of binge eating and purging through forced vomiting or taking laxatives. Though Doyle said on the podcast she may have actually been anorexic her whole life despite her initial diagnosis, her diagnosis may have simply changed over time, according to Kim Claudat, the director of the Adult Treatment Program at University of California San Diego's Health Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research. So confusing.' Patients with eating disorders can experience changes in diagnosis over time

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