281. How Amanda Finally Calmed Her Brain & Her Letter from Love with Liz Gilbert

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In this beautiful episode, we hear Amanda’s incredible breakthrough in quieting her brain, and how she finally heard from Love with the help of Elizabeth Gilbert. Discover: The breathtaking and very odd way that Love ultimately showed up for Amanda; Taylor & Travis’s love lesson for Amanda How to avoid what Liz Gilbert calls “taking a monkey survey” when making important life decisions; The “big thing” we are all missing & how it makes us dissatisfied with everything else; and How to get your brain and perfectionism to step back so your greater wisdom can speak. On Liz: Elizabeth Gilbert is author of the international bestseller, EAT PRAY LOVE, which has been translated into over thirty languages, and sold over 12 million copies worldwide. The book became so popular that Time Magazine named Elizabeth as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2010, Elizabeth published a follow-up to EAT PRAY LOVE called COMMITTED—an instant a #1 New York Times Bestseller, as well as BIG MAGIC: CREATIVE LIVING BEYOND FEAR. She is the author of three novels: STERN MEN, THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, and CITY OF GIRLS. Elizabeth is the creator of the Onward Book Club, which takes place on her Instagram via a live chat, as a way of spotlighting, studying, and celebrating the work of Black women authors. You can also find her on Substack and subscribe to her newsletter: “Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert.” Subscribe here: https://elizabethgilbert.substack.com/ Don’t miss Abby and Glennon also sharing their Letters from Love on We Can Do Hard Things episodes 268 and 269: Elizabeth Gilbert On Her Most Important Daily Practice (Abby) Glennon Shares Her Love Letter with Liz Gilbert To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everybody welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:13.2	If you have not listened to those episodes
0:16.6	in which our beloved friend and yours, Elizabeth Gilbert,
0:22.1	discusses with us the thing she does every single day which has changed her entire life.
0:28.2	It's a spiritual practice that actually people have been doing a long time. It's called two-way prayer. A lot of people
0:34.2	who recognize that practice. It's basically where you sit down and you write a letter
0:41.6	to yourself from love. If you are a person to whom that sounds ridiculous, today's
0:52.1	for you.
0:52.8	Okay. On the last episode that we did with Liz,
0:57.8	Abby and I read our letters from love which were
1:01.1	pretty intensely transformative experiences for us would you say
1:04.8	babe? Oh yeah big time and those were episodes 268 and 269 for y'all to go
1:12.3	back to.
1:13.0	Okay, great.
1:14.4	And during those episodes,
1:17.1	Liz issued Amanda a challenge, which was to write her own letter.
1:22.3	And I'm not sure that any of the four of us thought that would actually happen because, you know, sister is pretty logical, she's pretty logical human being.
1:31.0	It happened. It happened and Sister sent her letter from love to Liz and
1:40.5	to me and we both lost it.
1:44.3	Me too.
1:45.8	That's right.
1:47.5	I know that you sometimes think that you includes me,
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