Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert on addiction, loss, co-dependency, love, grief and rage.

Postcards From Midlife

Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin

Midlife Women, Women, 579985, Nutrition, Kids & Family, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Health, Relationships, Mental Health, Menopause, Culture, Fitness, Perimenopause, Lifestyle

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Trish & Lorraine meet the international best selling author to pick up the story of her life detailed in her new memoir All The Way to the River: Love, Loss & Liberation. Elizabeth speaks with moving honesty about her love story with her ‘wife’ Raya, their descent into addiction, and the rage and pain of profound grief. She also shares her spiritual learnings & life philosophies for our midlife years, including how to stop ‘purpose anxiety’, why gentle curiosity rather than one big passion makes for a more interesting life, why women need to stop pouring themselves into others & her experiment in ‘honest ageing’.

Plus: Margo the podcat turns 80, what to do with dreadful gifts & the mystery of the stock cube in the pyjama pocket

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and hello to you Lorraine.
0:12.0	I hope you've all been having a good week and getting into your stride in 2026, getting into the groove, as our friend Madonna might like to say.
0:22.2	I think we have to start today. That was a bit Alan Partridge.
0:25.2	What was it? Oh dear. She's off. She's off. 30 seconds in. It's all gone wrong.
0:33.1	That's because I'm giddy with excitement. Giddy about today's special guests. Normally we have a
0:38.6	bit of a build-up and we tell our listeners sort of halfway through that our intro chat. We can't
0:43.9	wait though, can we? Because this guest is more used to being on Oprah's sofa than in the
0:50.1	postcards from Midlife Studio. Isn't she? She's's amazing do you want to do the big reveal well
0:56.4	first of all can i'd name drop opra again yes you can i do want to say i do want to bring it out
1:03.9	us we haven't had a name drop this season we're on the third episode i'm going to drop the time seven
1:08.3	years ago for the film europe premiere of Rinkling Time,
1:12.4	the movie, where I interviewed Oprah Live on stage.
1:16.3	And annoyingly, it's all up on YouTube, Trish.
1:20.5	Oh, okay.
1:21.4	We can check it out.
1:22.0	I just found it.
1:23.3	There's something called flicks and something.
1:25.2	Anyway, if you Google it, it's up on YouTube.
1:27.6	It was Oprah, Reese Witherspoon. It was live streamed. I look at it, Trish, and I think, how did I do that and not forget everything? This was pre-perimenopause days, I think. I don't know how. It was live. I was not. I was quite good. I was really good. Did you think that? I did wonder how I managed to interview Reese Witherspoon, Oprah Winfrey live on stage. That is very impressive. Given that they changed all the questions 10 minutes before we went up there. It was a bit. But it was to encourage women to get into STEM. That was the campaign. Can I just say one thing about that name drop? Because you have done that done that particular. I like to do it once a season, I think. On this show several times. I don't think you ever mentioned Reese Witherspoon. You've missed a name-dropping opportunity. I've done that one as well. Maybe I'm separating that. Because Ava DiVerni, the director was there. Yeah. Storm Reed, the little 14-year-old girl who started in it. What a day, Trish.
2:21.5	What a day. Well, maybe I'm celebrating that. Because Ava DeVerni, the director was there. And Storm Reed, the little 14-year-old girl who starred in it.
2:20.2	What a day, Trish, what a day.
2:22.6	Anyway, our guest is Elizabeth Gilbert, the Eat, Pray, Love writer.
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