95. Why Elizabeth Gilbert Disappeared & What She Came Back to Say

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Part Two of our gorgeous conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert: 1. Liz describes Rayya’s death as “a fist fight”–and how Rayya went out swinging. 2. In the wake of Rayya’s death, how Liz grieved, and what helped. 3. Liz’s spiritual practices: communing with a higher power, her recovery community, and starting over. About Elizabeth: 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 author of two novels: THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, and CITY OF GIRLS. And she 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. Elizabeth divides her time between New York City, rural New Jersey, and everywhere else. TW: @GilbertLiz IG: @elizabeth_gilbert_writer

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0:00.0	Welcome back to we can do our things we are delighted that we have one of our
0:15.6	dear friends in all the land. Liz Gilbert back with us today if you have not
0:20.1	listened to the last episode just please go back and listen we're gonna pick up
0:25.4	right where we left off. Liz was talking to us about well the coming back
0:33.1	together the separation from Raya when she went back to her addiction before she
0:38.1	died and then the coming back and so I want to ask you Raya did die. I remember
0:48.5	my mom wrote me an email to check up on you during that time when Raya was
0:54.7	dying and she would say how is Liz? How is Liz? How is Liz? And the question
1:01.0	how how is Liz just I could I never knew how to answer and I said you know I
1:06.3	think mom the question is not how is Liz but who is Liz? Like who is Liz going
1:11.9	to be after this? There's no how anymore like how she uses everything but I
1:18.2	think that who she is is changing completely because of this experience so
1:24.9	number one how did that actual walking Raya home at the end go and then who
1:33.3	was Liz in the wake of that experience? The her actual death was very
1:43.3	humbling because again it wasn't what I planned. I don't know if you know
1:49.8	anything about wanting to control stuff. No I'm easy-crazy. Probably could
1:56.6	read a book about that but not really have any personal experience. I just
2:00.4	gave Codependent no more to Avi and she said I'll read it if you read it. He
2:05.0	said I just told a friend that she needed to come to a Codependence
2:11.1	anonymous meeting with me which is the single most I want to say the second most
2:14.7	Codependent thing you could possibly say beyond I will read this book if you read
2:17.9	it with me. You know Raya was very willful and she didn't surrender. That's also
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