So my guest today, Elizabeth Gilbert, has been on the show in the past about four or four

and a half years ago, actually.

She's an author back in 2006, came out with Eat Pretty Love, a series of novels and memoirs

and other books since then, tremendous wisdom, tremendous insight.

She has a new book out now called City of Girls, which is a fun, engaging, playful, intense

novel about life and about a group of characters in the 1940s in New York City.

It's also touches on some really powerful, relevant issues of the day.

And we talk about that a bit, but in the time since Liz has been in the studio with me,

her life has also gone through its own incredibly powerful narrative arc, her own journey, leaving

one relationship falling in love with somebody new.

That somebody knew, knowing that she only had a certain amount of time left on the planet

as she was living with cancer and Liz spent that time with her and then had to figure out

how do I move forward and why wake up each day and reclaim and redefine and set the new

parameters of my life moving forward.

And we explore a lot of that in today's conversation.

It's wide-ranging.

It is emotional.

It's powerful.

It is always with Liz.

There are so many things that she thinks about and says and shares that are healing and

welcoming and inclusive that you may want to listen a few times and potentially even with

the pad and a pencil to take some notes.

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