From Burke Virginia Wrote:
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> Found this interesting, given all sorts of the
> baggage she's aired on her blog. Social Justice
> Warrior (self proclaimed) and seems to be quite
> influential, she's got an interesting story on her
> Wiki page:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glennon_Doyle_Melton
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> So this person is also in a "commercial" video
> against Kavanaugh and seems to lead an influential
> blog and social media chain with hundreds of
> thousands of followers. Interesting, for sure.
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> What does the Underground think? Facts-only,
> please.
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momastery.com
For twenty years I was
> lost to bulimia and alcoholism and bad love and
> drugs. I suffered. My family suffered. I had
> a relatively magical childhood, which added an
> extra layer of guilt to my pain and confusion.
> Glennon – why are you all jacked up when you
> have no excuse to be all jacked up?
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> My best guess is that I was born with an extra
> dose of sensitivity to love and pain. I didn’t
> want to walk through the battlefield of life
> naked. So when I was ten years old, I made up my
> own little world called addiction and I hid there
> for decades. I felt safe. No one could touch me.
>
> On Mother’s Day 2002, unwed and addicted,
> I found myself holding a positive pregnancy
> test. For the first time in my life – I wanted
> something more than I wanted to be numb. I decided
> to become a mother and vowed to never again have
> another drink, cigarette, drug, unhealthy
> relationship, or food binge. I found myself
> marrying my son’s father.
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> Fourteen years later, I’m the mother to three
> kids, a couple of mutts, and two of the most
> majestic banyan trees you’ve ever seen. I’m a
> grateful member of this community of truth
> tellers, a Sunday School teacher, a #1 New York
> Times bestselling author, speaker, activist, and
> the founder and president of Together Rising – a
> non-profit that has raised seven million dollars
> for vulnerable women and children. Underneath and
> on top of all that I’m a Recovering Everything.
> I’m prouder of that title than I am of any
> other. Every morning, I open my eyes and
> immediately understand that I am still that girl
> on the bathroom floor, holding that pregnancy test
> like a terrifying invitation, trying to decide
> whether to stay down on the cold floor or get up
> and show up for my life.
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> Most days I decide to show up, because I was
> right when I was little. Life is brutal. But
> it’s also beautiful. Brutiful, I call it.
> Life’s brutal and beautiful are woven together
> so tightly that they can’t be separated. Reject
> the brutal, reject the beauty. So now I embrace
> both, and I live well and hard and real.
>
Now that her efforts to derail the SCOTUS confirmation didn't work out, she's taken up a new activity: SJW Apologist. Her FB Page is unreal and apologizes left and right, saying he's been appointed to moderate truthful discussions on all sorts of SJW topics. What a gal.