Getting the Apology You Need

the goop podcast

Gwyneth Paltrow

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Vagina Monologues author and playwright Eve Ensler joins Elise Loehnen to share her heartbreaking, honest, and hopeful story of healing her personal trauma. Ensler wrote her new book, The Apology, as a letter from the perspective of her late father, who sexually and physically abused her throughout her childhood. She describes her deeply transformative writing experience, how it felt like she was channeling, and why she believes the imagination is sometimes more accurate than anything else. She talks about how our culture would change if we received the apologies we were owed and how we all carry some kind of wound. Facing our trauma, Ensler says, is worth it, because on the other side are the love, the pleasure, the freedom we deserve. (For more, see The goop Podcast hub.) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Elise Loonon, co-host with Gwyneth of the Goop podcast.
0:08.0	Today's guest is Eve Ensler.
0:10.5	Eve is the fifth guest in our special series called Women on Top,
0:14.1	which is all made possible by our friends at Banana Republic.
0:22.1	The most interesting businesses are born out of curiosity.
0:25.5	This is the space that Gwyneth was in when she started Goop.
0:28.4	It's also the space from which Banana Republic was founded back in 1978
0:32.8	by two California creatives with adventurous spirits.
0:35.9	Last fall, we partnered with the team at Banana Republic to celebrate curiosity
0:40.2	by talking with women who are redefining what it means to be powerful and brave
0:44.3	and we're very excited to be back for a second series.
0:47.3	I hope you love listening to these conversations as much as I love having them
0:51.0	and I know you'll be deeply inspired by these women.
0:54.2	So please keep listening and keep shopping with our friends at Banana Republic
0:58.0	to see our favorites from their spring collection
1:00.5	head to bananarepublic.com slash goop.
1:08.0	Don't hold anything too tightly.
1:10.0	Just wish for it, want it, let it come from the intention of real truth for you,
1:17.0	and then let it go.
1:19.0	For me, our soul is like it's unbound, it's limitless,
1:23.0	but we will use words to limit ourselves.
1:26.0	When people stop believing that somebody's got your back or Superman's coming,
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