#820: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Find Your Inner Voice, Set Strong Boundaries, and Live a Life of Radical Ease (Repost)

Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York
Times bestselling author of Big
Magic and Eat, Pray, Love as well as several other
international bestsellers. Her latest novel, City of Girls,
was named an instant New York Times bestseller. Go
to ElizabethGilbert.Substack.com to subscribe to
“Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert,” her
newsletter, which has more than 120,000 subscribers.


This episode was originally published in September 2024.
Show notes and links:
https://tim.blog/2024/09/26/elizabeth-gilbert-2/


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Timestamps:


[00:00:00] Who is Elizabeth Gilbert?


[00:05:42] No cherished outcomes.  


[00:10:55] Self-compassionate ownership of
responsibility.  


[00:15:52] The daily practice of writing letters from
love.  


[00:22:22] Two-way prayer vs. one-way prayer.  


[00:30:57] The male approach to this practice.  


[00:34:27] How do you feel toward yourself vs. about
yourself?  


[00:36:53] Understanding self-hatred to foster
self-friendliness.  


[00:43:20] Setting boundaries and dealing with those who refuse
to honor them.  


[00:50:15] Why (and how) Elizabeth avoids big family holiday
gatherings.  


[00:52:15] Comfort in solitude.  


[00:53:38] Much abuzz about Elizabeth’s new ‘do.  


[00:57:52] Boundaries, priorities, and mysticism: a relaxed woman
as a radical concept.  


[01:04:02] What mysticism brings to Elizabeth’s
reality.  


[01:07:26] A better question to ask than “What do I
want?”  


[01:09:32] Elizabeth’s hard-ass approach to project
commitment.  


[01:16:40] Creativity guidance from Elizabeth’s higher
power.  


[01:21:08] How *The Morning Pages* influenced *Eat, Pray,
Love*.  


[01:24:27] More productive questions to ask than
“Why?”  


[01:26:16] The pointlessness of purpose anxiety.  


[01:30:59] Balancing presence with other aspects of a well-lived
life.  


[01:36:17] Comfort with mortality.  


[01:40:21] What motivates Elizabeth’s *Letters from Love*
newsletter?  


[01:41:29] What can potential readers expect from this
newsletter?  


[01:46:33] “Is the universe friendly?” — Frederic W. H.
Myers  


[01:49:29] Parting thoughts.  





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