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Podcast: Reads and Weeds
Episode: Episode 80-Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Description: Early in this discussion about Untamed by Glennon Doyle, Mary Dettling called it Shakubuku, which was referenced in the 1997 John Cusack movie Grosse Pointe Blank as 'a spiritual kick to the head.' It's a Buddhist term meaning roughly 'break and subdue' in which the resistance of another is broken by forceful argument. And I get it. It is a mind shifter, especially if you grew up wanting to be a 'good Christian girl', like Glennon. But to me it didn't feel forceful. It's one woman telling a story of drastic change and vulnerability that inevitably happens when you start...