Glennon Doyle Says She Had to Share Bulimia Relapse on Her Podcast: 'It Was Hard for Me Not To'

The Untamed author shared the news in a February episode of her podcast, We Can Do Hard Things. With the help of her co-hosts — wife and soccer icon Abby Wambach and sister Amanda Doyle — the 46-year-old explained how she spiraled back into her eating disorder over the holidays after two decades of recovery.

“I’m not trying to be shiny. We’re using this podcast — we call it We Can Do Hard Things for a reason,” Doyle tells PEOPLE as part of an exclusive interview coinciding with Mental Health Awareness Month. “We’re trying to actually help us all feel a little bit less alone.”

May 11 will mark the one-year anniversary of Doyle’s podcast, which is produced by Cadence13. Created during the pandemic, it’s almost like a real-time, updated version of her New York Times bestselling memoir Untamed. But rather than just discussing the hard situations that the Doyle-Wambach family is coping with, it’s a platform to openly address the life challenges that listeners are facing, too.

Read the full article here.