E215 - Elizabeth Gilbert: Love Addiction, Telling the Truth & Hearing Your Inner Voice
Podcast: Know ThyselfPublished On: Tue Oct 06 2026
Description: Elizabeth Gilbert joins me for her first public conversation after a six month sabbatical, a stretch where she stopped writing, producing, and planning so she could simply be available to life. Liz is the author of "Eat, Pray, Love", "Big Magic", and her memoir "All the Way to the River". In this conversation she speaks openly about the daily practice of two-way prayer that guides her choices, her recovery from sex and love addiction, and the story of loving her partner Raya through terminal cancer and active drug addiction.What We Dive Into:1. Liz describes feeling trapped many times in her life, most painfully while caring for Raya through cancer and active addiction. Each time, the only way out was the truth she least wanted to tell, and naming where she was lying, hiding, or manipulating is what finally set her free.2. Recovery taught Liz that no partner, payoff, or praise could fill her sense of scarcity around love. Sitting with the part of her that wailed for someone else at three in the morning, and promising to stay anyway, slowly built a secure attachment to herself that no other person could provide.3. Liz no longer believes everyone must create, but she believes everyone is invited. Success can never be promised, yet telling the story within you will change who you are by the end. As AI grows more capable, the lasting reason to make things may be the one our ancestors had: it is pleasing.Know Thyself, but not by yourself. A guided space to return home to yourself.https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com✨THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:Waking Up: Get your 14 day free trial!https://www.wakingup.com/knowthyselfTry LMNT & get a free sample pack https://drinkLMNT.com/KnowThyselfUse code KNOWTHYSELF for up to 43% off sitewidehttps://www.mudwtr.com/knowthyself___________00:00 Intro02:30 The Call to Stop08:30 Listening for a Higher Voice19:25 How to Recognize the Ego26:05 The Public, Private, and Secret Self29:12 Writing From Healed Scars33:43 Love and Secrecy With Raya41:10 Codependency and the Truth That Frees47:06 Generosity With Strings Attached53:43 Searching for Enough Love1:00:42 The Inner Child Left Unchecked1:03:29 Life After Seven Years of Recovery1:11:46 Redefining Creative Living1:19:42 Buried Treasure and Ancestral Joy1:22:44 Ideas as Living Entities1:30:16 Creating Without Assurances1:33:44 The Discipline Behind Inspiration1:38:56 Art Scars and Reclaiming Play1:45:32 Creativity in the Age of AI1:50:43 The Practice of Two-Way Prayer1:55:13 Asking for Our Instructions2:01:26 Five Days in Darkness2:06:21 What It Means to Know Thyself___________✨MORE FROM ELIZABETH GILBERT↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabeth_gilbert_writer↳Substack: https://elizabethgilbert.substack.com/↳Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GilbertLiz↳https://www.elizabethgilbert.com📜MORE FROM KNOW THYSELF↳Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bZMq9l↳Apple: https://apple.co/4iATICX↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/↳TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andreduqum↳Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knowthyselfbyandreduqum/↳https://knowthyselfpodcast.com/👁️MORE FROM ANDRÉ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@andreduqum↳Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/know-thyself-podcast↳Book recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list
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