Every now and then a book arrives that does not simply offer ideas. It cracks open a space inside you where truth has been waiting. The kind of truth you feel in your chest before you can put it into words. I read this book recently and it felt less like reading and more like remembering. Remembering what we know about being human before the world teaches us to be compliant, pleasant, efficient, invisible, and exhausted.
You can be forgiven for thinking this is a book for women. It isn’t. This book is for the humans who are tired of pretending everything is fine. It is for the humans who know something is wrong and want to help set it right. It is for those who want to raise people, lead people, and be people who thrive. It is for everyone who knows we can do better than this.
Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. (Goodreads.com)
It is not a business book. Yet I would place it in the hands of every executive reshaping the future of work, every HR leader trying to untangle burnout, every manager staring at a team worn thin by systems they did not design, and every human who feels trapped inside a system that wasn’t designed for our beautiful species. It is a book about human capacity and human constraint, about the cages we did not build but still live inside. That makes it a human sustainability book, whether it intended to be or not.
Inside, you will find wildness, truth, courage, boundaries, rage, softness, tenderness. You will find the quiet brilliance of instinct and the cost of ignoring it. You will find what happens when we silence ourselves for too long and what becomes possible when we finally listen again.
In a world on fire (literally and metaphorically), this book reminds us that fire is not only destruction but also clears the ground for renewal. It forces clarity. It returns us to what matters. The whole world lived through the raging fire of a pandemic between 2020 and 2023. It delivered its own fierce clarity, reminding us what is worth protecting and what needs to be rebuilt entirely.
Give this book to your partner. Give it to your friends. Give it to the men who know toxic masculinity harms them too. Give it to someone raising the next generation of humans for humanity, not fragility. Give it to leaders who are tired of watching good people bend themselves to bad systems and know they can contribute to better.
This is my Christmas gift to you. Not advice, not strategy, not a framework. But a book. One that might help you breathe a little easier, stand a little taller, and walk into 2026 with more hope, more honesty, and more courage than you realised you still had.
May next year be the year you choose what matters instead of what wears you down. May this book help you begin.
And if you decide to read it, or listen to it, and it stirs something in you, I would love to hear from you. Books like this are meant to be lived with, talked about, and wrestled with. If it moves you in any direction at all, drop me a DM. I would be honoured to hear what it sparked in you.
In 2026, I commit to being a little wilder and a lot braver, and I offer no apology for either.
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Bobbi