We Can Do Hard Things
Answers to Life's 20 Questions
Published on 8. May 2025
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-1-78504-575-2 (ISBN)
Description
*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
The #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling authors and award-winning podcasters Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle created We Can Do Hard Things the guidebook for being alive - to help fellow travelers find their way through life.
When you travel through a new country, you need a guidebook.
When you travel through love, heartbreak, joy, parenting, friendship, uncertainty, aging, grief, new beginnings - life - you need a guidebook, too.
We Can Do Hard Things is the guidebook for being alive.
Every day, Glennon Doyle spirals around the same questions: Why am I like this? How do I figure out what I want? How do I know what to do? Why can't I be happy? Am I doing this right?
The harder life gets, the less likely she is to remember the answers she's spent her life learning. She wonders: I'm almost fifty years old. I've overcome a hell of a lot. Why do I wake up every day having forgotten everything I know?
Glennon's compasses are her sister, Amanda, and her wife, Abby. Recently, in the span of a single year, Glennon was diagnosed with anorexia, Amanda was diagnosed with breast cancer, and Abby's beloved brother died. For the first time, they were all lost at the same time. So they turned toward the only thing that's ever helped them find their way: deep, honest conversations with other brave, kind, wise people.
They asked each other, their dearest friends, and 118 of the world's most brilliant wayfinders: As you've traveled these roads -marriage, parenting, work, recovery, heartbreak, aging, new beginnings-have you collected any wisdom that might help us find our way?
As Glennon, Abby, and Amanda wrote down every life-saving answer, they discovered two things:
No matter what road we are walking down, someone else has traveled the same terrain.
The wisdom of our fellow travelers will light our way.
They put all of that wisdom in one place: We Can Do Hard Things-a place to turn when you feel clueless and alone, when you need clarity in the chaos, or when you want wise company on the path of life.
We are all life travelers. We don't have to travel alone. We Can Do Hard Things is our guidebook.
Featuring wisdom from: ALOK * Sara Bareilles * Dr. Yaba Blay * Kate Bowler * adrienne maree brown * Brandi Carlile * Brittney Cooper * Brittany Packnett Cunningham * Kaitlin Curtice * Megan Falley * Jane Fonda * Stephanie Foo * Ashley C. Ford * Ina Garten * Roxane Gay * Andrea Gibson * Elizabeth Gilbert * Dr. Orna Guralnik * Tricia Hersey * Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson * Luvvie Ajayi Jones * Dr. Becky Kennedy * Emily Nagoski * Esther Perel * Ai-Jen Poo * Cole Arthur Riley * Cheryl Strayed * Sonya Renee Taylor * Ocean Vuong * And many others
The #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling authors and award-winning podcasters Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle created We Can Do Hard Things the guidebook for being alive - to help fellow travelers find their way through life.
When you travel through a new country, you need a guidebook.
When you travel through love, heartbreak, joy, parenting, friendship, uncertainty, aging, grief, new beginnings - life - you need a guidebook, too.
We Can Do Hard Things is the guidebook for being alive.
Every day, Glennon Doyle spirals around the same questions: Why am I like this? How do I figure out what I want? How do I know what to do? Why can't I be happy? Am I doing this right?
The harder life gets, the less likely she is to remember the answers she's spent her life learning. She wonders: I'm almost fifty years old. I've overcome a hell of a lot. Why do I wake up every day having forgotten everything I know?
Glennon's compasses are her sister, Amanda, and her wife, Abby. Recently, in the span of a single year, Glennon was diagnosed with anorexia, Amanda was diagnosed with breast cancer, and Abby's beloved brother died. For the first time, they were all lost at the same time. So they turned toward the only thing that's ever helped them find their way: deep, honest conversations with other brave, kind, wise people.
They asked each other, their dearest friends, and 118 of the world's most brilliant wayfinders: As you've traveled these roads -marriage, parenting, work, recovery, heartbreak, aging, new beginnings-have you collected any wisdom that might help us find our way?
As Glennon, Abby, and Amanda wrote down every life-saving answer, they discovered two things:
No matter what road we are walking down, someone else has traveled the same terrain.
The wisdom of our fellow travelers will light our way.
They put all of that wisdom in one place: We Can Do Hard Things-a place to turn when you feel clueless and alone, when you need clarity in the chaos, or when you want wise company on the path of life.
We are all life travelers. We don't have to travel alone. We Can Do Hard Things is our guidebook.
Featuring wisdom from: ALOK * Sara Bareilles * Dr. Yaba Blay * Kate Bowler * adrienne maree brown * Brandi Carlile * Brittney Cooper * Brittany Packnett Cunningham * Kaitlin Curtice * Megan Falley * Jane Fonda * Stephanie Foo * Ashley C. Ford * Ina Garten * Roxane Gay * Andrea Gibson * Elizabeth Gilbert * Dr. Orna Guralnik * Tricia Hersey * Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson * Luvvie Ajayi Jones * Dr. Becky Kennedy * Emily Nagoski * Esther Perel * Ai-Jen Poo * Cole Arthur Riley * Cheryl Strayed * Sonya Renee Taylor * Ocean Vuong * And many others
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Ebury Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 44 mm
Weight
734 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78504-575-2 (9781785045752)
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E-Book
05/2025
Ebury Digital
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Persons
Glennon Doyle is the CEO and Founder of Treat Media, an award-winning media company that makes art for humans who want to stay human. She is an author, podcaster, producer and philanthropist. Her books include the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed, which has sold more than three million copies; the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior, an Oprah's Book Club selection; the New York Times bestseller Carry On, Warrior; and Get Untamed: The Journal. Glennon, named one of the '50 Most Powerful People in Podcasting,' is co-host of the chart-topping podcast We Can Do Hard Things, which has received over a half billion plays. She is an executive producer of the Sundance award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light. Glennon was Founder and President of Together Rising, a nonprofit organisation which distributed more than $55 million to women, families and children in crisis. Her most recent book, We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions, created with Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle and Treat Media, is being hailed as 'the guidebook for being alive.' Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, FIFA World Cup champion, six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award and one of Time's Most Influential People. She is a founder of Treat Media, an award-winning media company that makes art for humans who want to stay human. Abby is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wolfpack and the New York Times bestseller Forward. Named one of the '50 Most Powerful People in Podcasting,' she is co-host of the chart-topping podcast We Can Do Hard Things, which has received over a half billion plays. Abby is an executive producer of the Sundance award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light, part owner of the NWSL's Angel City Football Club and sits on multiple boards. Her most recent book, We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions, created with Glennon Doyle, Amanda Doyle and Treat Media, is being hailed as 'the guidebook for being alive.' Amanda Doyle is a Founder of Treat Media, an award-winning media company that makes art for humans who want to stay human. With Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach, she authored We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions, the book being hailed as 'the guidebook for being alive.' Named one of the '50 Most Powerful People in Podcasting,' Amanda is co-host of the chart-topping podcast We Can Do Hard Things, which has received over a half billion plays. She is an executive producer of the Sundance award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light. Amanda was Vice President and General Counsel of Together Rising, a non-profit organisation which distributed more than $55 million to women, families and children in crisis. Amanda practised law at a global corporate firm and as a Legal Fellow with International Justice Mission in Rwanda, securing land rights for women and accountability for child victims of sexual violence. Her academic and political work sits at the intersection of social, institutional and interpersonal systems of violence, oppression and liberation - laser-focused on practical justice in everyday lived experience.