Why Elizabeth Gilbert Disappeared & What She Came Back to Say

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Part Two of our gorgeous conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert: 1. Liz describes Rayya’s death as “a fist fight”–and how Rayya went out swinging. 2. In the wake of Rayya’s death, how Liz grieved, and what helped. 3. Liz’s spiritual practices: communing with a higher power, her recovery community, and starting over. About Elizabeth: Elizabeth Gilbert is author of the international bestseller, EAT PRAY LOVE, which has been translated into over thirty languages, and sold over 12 million copies worldwide. The book became so popular that Time Magazine named Elizabeth as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2010, Elizabeth published a follow-up to EAT PRAY LOVE called COMMITTED—an instant a #1 New York Times Bestseller, as well as BIG MAGIC: CREATIVE LIVING BEYOND FEAR. She is author of two novels: THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, and CITY OF GIRLS. And she is the creator of the Onward Book Club, which takes place on her Instagram via a live chat, as a way of spotlighting, studying, and celebrating the work of Black women authors. Elizabeth divides her time between New York City, rural New Jersey, and everywhere else. TW: @GilbertLiz IG: @elizabeth_gilbert_writer 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome back to We Can Do Our Things!
0:13.1	We are delighted that we have one of our dearest friends in all the land.
0:18.1	Liz Gilbert, back with us today.
0:19.8	If you have not listened to the last episode, just please go back and listen.
0:24.7	We're going to pick up right where we left off.
0:28.3	Liz was talking to us about, well, the coming back together, the separation from Raya
0:35.6	when she went back to her addiction before she died and then the coming back.
0:42.4	And so I want to ask you, Raya did die.
0:47.9	I remember my mom wrote me an email to check up on you during that time when Raya was
0:54.7	dying and she would say, how is Liz?
1:00.4	The question, how is Liz?
1:02.6	I never knew how to answer and I said, I think mom, the question is not how is Liz but
1:08.9	who is Liz?
1:11.1	Who is Liz going to be after this?
1:14.3	There's no how anymore.
1:16.2	How she is is everything.
1:18.1	But I think that who she is is changing completely because of this experience.
1:24.1	So number one, how did that actual walking Raya home at the end go and then who is Liz
1:35.4	in the wake of that experience?
1:40.0	The her actual death was very humbling because again, it wasn't what I planned.
1:49.2	I don't know if you know anything about wanting to control stuff.
1:52.2	No.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Glennon Doyle & Audacy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Glennon Doyle & Audacy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.