Glennon Doyle Shares Anorexia Diagnosis

In response, Glennon shared that she decided to turn to reading books on anorexia in order to figure out how to properly educate herself. 

“It was a big shift in thinking for me,” she said. “I don’t know how to explain the feeling of reading things that you thought were part of your personality and who you were, and reading that they’re actually just a collection of symptoms, of an effing disease.”

Glennon admitted she felt ashamed of her lack of knowledge on the disorder. 

She explained, “It was stunning to be a person whose life and work is about self-examination, is about discovering the nuance and minutiae of who we are and talking about it every day and then not know this information about yourself. It’s humiliating on a level.”

On her Instagram, Glennon explained why she made the decision to open up about her road to recovery.

“i’m not waiting to speak until i have my ‘tada’ moment because if i do, i’ll never speak,” she wrote in a Jan. 3 post. “This year, we are going to be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyway.”