We were activists who didn’t necessarily know it all the time. It wasn’t just about me, it was about that little girl or boy in the stands. There was so much purpose inside what I was doing. How do you feel?Ībby Wambach: You know, I was so nervous about retiring from soccer. Vanity Fair: It’s been a year since you launched your podcast, We Can Do Hard Things. They also give a glimpse at one of their upcoming projects: the TV adaptation of Doyle’s novel Untamed. Vanity Fair chatted with the duo about the show’s evolution, vulnerability, and systemic oppression. In it, Doyle, Wambach, and Doyle’s sister Amanda (known as “Sister”) bring on guests like ALOK, Chanel Miller, Megan Rapinoe, Gabrielle Union, and Tarana Burke to tackle stories of identity, activism, sex, navigating trauma, and everything in between. Wednesday marks one year since that devotion fueled the launch of their podcast, We Can Do Hard Things. Whether they’re discussing the intentional, politically driven design of separating queer existence from faith or reflecting on the “radical” act of transparency that comes along with discussing mental health, these two-both as a couple and as individuals-are devoted to candid, collective, and just storytelling.

In ' Untamed,' Doyle said she had been admitted to a mental-health clinic in high school, where they diagnosed her with bulimia.Sitting down with Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach feels like taking a deep breath. (Claudat was not involved in Doyle's diagnosis or treatment.)Ĭlaudat told Insider many patients experience 'diagnostic migration,' or changes in diagnosis, because eating disorders are usually chronic conditions that persist throughout the lifetime.īulimia nervosa is a mental-health disorder characterized by cycles of binge eating and purging through forced vomiting or taking laxatives. Though Doyle said on the podcast she may have actually been anorexic her whole life despite her initial diagnosis, her diagnosis may have simply changed over time, according to Kim Claudat, the director of the Adult Treatment Program at University of California San Diego's Health Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research. So confusing.' Patients with eating disorders can experience changes in diagnosis over time

'Anorexia is a totally different thing,' Doyle said. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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