Carry On, Warrior: From Glennon Doyle, the #1 bestselling author of Untamed

that if you are thin and smile a lot, people tend to believe that you have the universe’s secrets in your pocket and that a raindrop has never fallen on your head.

People who might be disgusted if they saw the real me. My fear of really being seen had driven me to hide inside the bunker of addiction for decades.

During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.