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 risk 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 Gobert, what immediately comes to mind for so many?

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

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