People take risks every single day, yet this one asking somebody to be courageous enough to open up a blank notebook and write,

Dear Love, what would you have me know?

And then imagine what unconditional love would say to them feels like, well, that's a bridge

too far, I'm not doing that.

And I call people out on that, because I'm like, I've seen this, I've seen the risks you've taken in your life. You know I dare you to take this and to see and I think that largely the reason that we're so frightened to do it is

because we've never experienced it like nobody ever loved us unconditionally.

So I would ask that you try it,

and then I would ask that you try it again.

And then I would ask that you try it again.

Because this is your inheritance.

You are allowed to be loved. It's too hard without it.

So when you think of the author Elizabeth Gilbert, what immediately comes to mind for so money?

It's the journey that she took that led to the blockbuster book Eat Pray Love, or maybe it's her

viral TED Talk on Creativity or maybe the many additional books that have come over the years.

But there's another reason Liz has stayed in my heart and mind for so many years after I first sat down with her on the podcast, I think nearly about a decade ago.

It was her heart, her kindness, her wisdom, and her sense of lightness and laughter, even through

profound struggle and loss, her willingness to be utterly Liz and love herself

wholly.

That feign line from when Harry met Sally scrolled through my consciousness all have what she's

having.

And over the years, building on that early conversation with Liz, I came to learn how far from that place she'd spent so much of her life, how

consumingly negative so much of her inner talk had been until a single revelation turned practice

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