We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions

We Can Do Hard Things is a guidebook created by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle to help readers navigate life's challenges. The book addresses twenty recurring questions about identity, desire, decision-making, happiness, and purpose that Doyle finds herself asking repeatedly, even after decades of personal growth. When Doyle, Amanda, and Abby faced simultaneous crises—Doyle's anorexia diagnosis, Amanda's breast cancer diagnosis, and Abby's brother's death—they turned to deep conversations with trusted friends and 118 contributors they identified as experienced guides. They asked these individuals what wisdom they had gathered from their own experiences with marriage, parenting, work, recovery, heartbreak, aging, and new beginnings. The book collects the responses they received, organized around the insight that others have traveled the same difficult roads and that shared wisdom can light the way forward. Contributors include Sara Bareilles, Jane Fonda, Roxane Gay, Elizabeth Gilbert, Cheryl Strayed, Ocean Vuong, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and many others. The book is intended as a resource for readers seeking clarity, companionship, and guidance during uncertain times.