Liz Gilbert: Why Your Creativity Matters

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The indomitable Liz Gilbert (of EAT, PRAY, LOVE fame) joins Kate for a live conversation on the courage to create. Listen as Liz helps us expose our exhausting American need to make everything useful and lets us embrace beauty as a way of really living. In this episode, Kate and Liz discuss: Why we stop ourselves from being creative How we are all capable of making anything (badly! medium-well!) But how our creativity is best if it is for no reason whatsoever (not for impact or legacy or money or acknowledgement) How curiosity quiets fear and control CW: some spicy adult language *** Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here. Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Subscribe to receive blessings in your inbox every week. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available in PAPERBACK. Order your copy, today. Looking for some short spiritual reflections and blessings? Check out GOOD ENOUGH: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Available wherever books are sold. Introducing THE LIVES WE ACTUALLY HAVE: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days (releasing February 14, 2023). Learn more, pre-order, and receive a free pennant, here. Leave us a voicemail and who knows? We might even be able to use your voice on the air: 919-322-8731 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	I'm Kate Boehler and this is Everything Happens.
0:06.0	One day we're kids who jump and play and imagine and dream.
0:12.4	We build worlds that we live inside.
0:15.9	Sandcastles and our own comic books, or we finger paint or build forts out of pillows,
0:22.4	or if you're me you write a long chapter books about best friends who also love horses.
0:29.9	But then somehow, someday, we grow up.
0:34.9	We stop playing make-believe and start worrying about our 401ks, or if our kids are okay.
0:42.5	Or if we really found that job or purpose that we're looking for in life.
0:47.2	Or if we'll make this deadline or get that promotion.
0:50.6	Or if our marriages or partnerships or friendships can make it through whatever is ahead.
0:56.2	Or if we're ever going to outgrow that pain or that addiction.
1:00.5	Or just how to move forward without the people in our lives that we never imagine that
1:06.3	we'd have to live without.
1:09.7	Something somewhere along the way just gets pressed out of us.
1:14.3	Maybe it's wonder, maybe it's creativity, maybe it's a little bit of joy.
1:20.7	But maybe those are the very things we need when life goes off the tracks.
1:26.8	Wonder, delight, beauty, curiosity, play.
1:33.7	Maybe that explains why when I started treatment for cancer, I started dragging everybody
1:38.6	who's ever loved me around to these worlds largest or world's smallest statues within
1:44.5	driving range.
1:51.5	It was like I had to find that crack where the light gets in.
1:57.7	Thank you, Leonard Cohen, and just kind of pry it open.
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