E215 - Elizabeth Gilbert: Love Addiction, Telling the Truth & Hearing Your Inner Voice

<p>Elizabeth Gilbert joins me for her first public conversation after a six month sabbatical, a stretch where she stopped writing, producing, and planning so she could simply be available to life. Liz is the author of &quot;Eat, Pray, Love&quot;, &quot;Big Magic&quot;, and her memoir &quot;All the Way to the River&quot;. In this conversation she speaks openly about the daily practice of two-way prayer that guides her choices, her recovery from sex and love addiction, and the story of loving her partner Raya through terminal cancer and active drug addiction.</p><p><br></p><p>What We Dive Into:</p><p>1. Liz describes feeling trapped many times in her life, most painfully while caring for Raya through cancer and active addiction. Each time, the only way out was the truth she least wanted to tell, and naming where she was lying, hiding, or manipulating is what finally set her free.</p><p>2. Recovery taught Liz that no partner, payoff, or praise could fill her sense of scarcity around love. Sitting with the part of her that wailed for someone else at three in the morning, and promising to stay anyway, slowly built a secure attachment to herself that no other person could provide.</p><p>3. Liz no longer believes everyone must create, but she believes everyone is invited. Success can never be promised, yet telling the story within you will change who you are by the end. As AI grows more capable, the lasting reason to make things may be the one our ancestors had: it is pleasing.</p><p><br></p><p>Know Thyself, but not by yourself. A guided space to return home to yourself.</p><p>https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com</p><p><br></p><p>✨THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:</p><p>Waking Up: Get your 14 day free trial!https://www.wakingup.com/knowthyself</p><p>Try LMNT &amp; get a free sample pack https://drinkLMNT.com/KnowThyselfUse code KNOWTHYSELF for up to 43% off sitewidehttps://www.mudwtr.com/knowthyself</p><p>___________</p><p>00:00 Intro</p><p>02:30 The Call to Stop</p><p>08:30 Listening for a Higher Voice</p><p>19:25 How to Recognize the Ego</p><p>26:05 The Public, Private, and Secret Self</p><p>29:12 Writing From Healed Scars</p><p>33:43 Love and Secrecy With Raya</p><p>41:10 Codependency and the Truth That Frees</p><p>47:06 Generosity With Strings Attached</p><p>53:43 Searching for Enough Love</p><p>1:00:42 The Inner Child Left Unchecked</p><p>1:03:29 Life After Seven Years of Recovery</p><p>1:11:46 Redefining Creative Living</p><p>1:19:42 Buried Treasure and Ancestral