{"id":8900,"date":"2024-09-26T20:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T00:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/elizabeth-gilbert-how-to-set-strong-boundaries-overcome-purpose-anxiety-and-find-your-deep-inner-voice-770\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T20:03:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T00:03:17","slug":"elizabeth-gilbert-how-to-set-strong-boundaries-overcome-purpose-anxiety-and-find-your-deep-inner-voice-770","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/elizabeth-gilbert-how-to-set-strong-boundaries-overcome-purpose-anxiety-and-find-your-deep-inner-voice-770\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Gilbert \u2014 How to Set Strong Boundaries, Overcome Purpose Anxiety, and Find Your Deep Inner Voice (#770)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tim.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Elizabeth-Gilbert-Illustration.jpg?resize=600%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tim.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Elizabeth-Gilbert-Illustration-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tim.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Elizabeth-Gilbert-Illustration-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tim.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Elizabeth-Gilbert-Illustration-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tim.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Elizabeth-Gilbert-Illustration-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tim.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Elizabeth-Gilbert-Illustration-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1638&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tim.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Elizabeth-Gilbert-Illustration-scaled.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tim.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Elizabeth-Gilbert-Illustration-scaled.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, 600px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Illustration via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/99designs.com\/tim\" rel=\"noopener\">99designs<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cI am good at manifesting what I want, and I\u2019m good at almost dying from getting what I want. So maybe there\u2019s a better question to be asking than, \u2018What do I want?&#8217;\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Gilbert<\/strong> (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/elizabeth_gilbert_writer\" rel=\"noopener\">@elizabeth_gilbert_writer<\/a>) is the #1 <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Big-Magic-Creative-Living-Beyond\/dp\/1594634726\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=offsitoftimfe-20&amp;linkId=c5309feeac8c77184a32ce7951ab4e1d&amp;language=en_US\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Big Magic<\/em><\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eat-Pray-Love-Everything-Indonesia\/dp\/0143038419\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Eat,+Pray,+Love&amp;qid=1588920205&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=offsitoftimfe-20&amp;linkId=ccc521b2ea0874538324c34a6fc3e3b6&amp;language=en_US\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Eat, Pray, Love<\/em><\/a> as well as several other international bestsellers. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN\/Hemingway Award. Her latest novel, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/City-Girls-Novel-Elizabeth-Gilbert\/dp\/1594634742\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&amp;keywords=City+of+Girls&amp;qid=1588920178&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=offsitoftimfe-20&amp;linkId=65a55c6c97b9672c83ebdb934f2b0610&amp;language=en_US\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>City of Girls<\/em><\/a>, was named an instant <em>New York Times<\/em> bestseller\u2014a rollicking, sexy tale of the New York City theater world during the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/elizabethgilbert.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">ElizabethGilbert.Substack.com<\/a> to subscribe to \u201c<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/elizabethgilbert.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d her newsletter, which has more than 120,000 subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This episode is brought to you by <\/strong><a 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Please let me know <a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2024\/09\/26\/elizabeth-gilbert-2\/#respond\">in the comments<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-91714\"\/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Connect with <strong>Elizabeth Gilbert<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elizabethgilbert.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Website<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GilbertLiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GilbertLiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/elizabeth_gilbert_writer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethgilbert.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert | Substack<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/City-Girls-Novel-Elizabeth-Gilbert\/dp\/1594634742\/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">City of Girls: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert | Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Big-Magic-Creative-Living-Beyond\/dp\/1594634726\/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert | Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eat-Pray-Love-Everything-Indonesia\/dp\/0143038419\/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman\u2019s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert | Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2020\/05\/08\/elizabeth-gilbert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elizabeth Gilbert\u2019s Creative Path: Saying No, Trusting Your Intuition, Index Cards, Integrity Checks, Grief, Awe, and Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show #430<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GilbertLiz\/photos\/a.356148997800555\/1045747688840679\/?type=3&amp;ref=embed_post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Celtic Prayer of Approach | Elizabeth Gilbert, Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2019\/06\/11\/jerry-colonna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jerry Colonna \u2014 The Coach with the Spider Tattoo | The Tim Ferriss Show #373<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cathedral.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A House of Prayer for All People | Washington National Cathedral<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tao-Te-Ching-Perennial-Classics\/dp\/0061142662\/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell | Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethgilbert.substack.com\/p\/welcome-to-letters-from-love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Welcome to Letters from Love | Elizabeth Gilbert<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twowayprayer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">An 11th Step Tool Rediscovered | Two-Way Prayer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thegeniusofplay.org\/genius\/play-ideas-tips\/play-ideas\/marco-polo.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marco Polo | The Genius of Play<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/45477\/song-of-myself-1892-version\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Song of Myself (1892 Version) | The Poetry Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Leaves-Grass-Unabridged-Deathbed-Poems\/dp\/B0BRMX5K8X\/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Artists-Way-Morning-Pages-Journal\/dp\/0874778867\/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Artist\u2019s Way Morning Pages Journal: A Companion Volume to the Artist\u2019s Way by Julia Cameron | Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary\/dp\/0143129252\/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Artist\u2019s Way by Julia Cameron | Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2019\/06\/20\/chip-conley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chip Conley \u2014 Building Empires, Tackling Cancer, and Surfing the Liminal | The Tim Ferriss Show #374<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Most-Beautiful-Thing-Common\/dp\/B08LZ38987\/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Most Beautiful Thing | Prime Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Most-Beautiful-Thing-Americas-All-Black\/dp\/1250754771\/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America\u2019s First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper | Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ifs-institute.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What is Internal Family Systems? | IFS Institute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Internal-Family-Systems-Therapy-Second\/dp\/1462541461\/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition by Richard C. Schwartz and Martha Sweezy | Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2021\/01\/14\/richard-schwartz-internal-family-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Richard Schwartz \u2014 IFS, Psychedelic Experiences without Drugs, and Finding Inner Peace for Our Many Parts | The Tim Ferriss Show #492<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2017\/11\/03\/sharon-salzberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sharon Salzberg, World-Renowned Meditation Teacher | The Tim Ferriss Show #277<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/blog\/the-self-hatred-within-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Self-Hatred Within Us | The On Being Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianity.com\/church\/denominations\/what-is-calvinism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What is Calvinism? | Christianity.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joyceproject.com\/notes\/010041killergod.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hangman God | The Joyce Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2024\/04\/17\/martha-beck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Martha Beck \u2014 The Amazing and Brutal Results of Zero Lies for 365 Days, How to Do a Beginner \u201cIntegrity Cleanse,\u201d Lessons from Lion Trackers, and Novel Tactics for Reducing Anxiety (#732) \u2013 The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonsaiempire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Growing and Caring for a Bonsai Tree | Bonsai Empire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oprahdaily.com\/life\/wholeness\/a61986014\/elizabeth-gilbert-haircut-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why I Cut Off All My Hair by Elizabeth Gilbert | Oprah Daily<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/waterofwhimsy\/p\/CQ03vUsLPFT\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bog Witch Aesthetic by Water of Whimsy | Instagram<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2020\/02\/06\/brene-brown-striving-self-acceptance-saving-marriages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bren\u00e9 Brown \u2014 Striving versus Self-Acceptance, Saving Marriages, and More (#409) \u2013 The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prudencehenschke.com\/articles\/elizabeth-gilbert-relaxed-woman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Revolution Of The Relaxed Woman | Prudence Henschke<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2018\/01\/eat-pray-love-author-elizabeth-gilbert-mourns-rayya-elias-death.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eat Pray Love Author Elizabeth Gilbert Mourns Rayya Elias | The Cut<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/newtonian-physics-vs-special-realtivity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Newtonian Physics vs. Special Relativity | Futurism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sufism.org\/sufism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What is Sufism? | The Threshold Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=txlCvCSefYQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Physicists Proved the Universe Isn\u2019t Locally Real | Dr. Ben Miles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2020\/08\/26\/rabbi-lord-jonathan-sacks-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on Powerful Books, Mystics, Richard Dawkins, and the Dangers of Safe Spaces | The Tim Ferriss Show #455<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/method-matter\/the-paradox-of-why-77ee8a3b9cc3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Paradox of Why by Andrea Mignolo | Medium<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lifecurator.co\/life\/purpose-anxiety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purpose Anxiety | Life Curator<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/46565\/ozymandias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Poetry Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Titan-Life-John-Rockefeller-Sr\/dp\/1400077303\/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow | Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cartoonbank.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New Yorker Cartoons | The Cartoon Bank<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jackass-Movie-Johnny-Knoxville\/dp\/B000HZGNJA\/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jackass: The Movie | Prime Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/05\/death-memento-mori-happiness\/674158\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Think About Your Death and Live Better | The Atlantic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/07\/social-media-harm-facebook-meta-response\/670975\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yes, Social Media Really Is Undermining Democracy | The Atlantic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethgilbert.substack.com\/p\/letters-from-love-with-special-guest-cb7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Letters from Love with Special Guest Toni Collette! | Substack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethgilbert.substack.com\/p\/letters-from-love-with-special-guest-28e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Letters from Love with Special Guest Glennon Doyle! | Substack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethgilbert.substack.com\/p\/letters-from-love-with-special-guest-eb1?utm_source=publication-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Letters from Love with Special Guest Moe Miyahara! | Substack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethgilbert.substack.com\/p\/letters-from-love-with-special-guest-a3c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Letters from Love with Special Guest BJ Armour! | Substack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/studioroute29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Studio Route 29 | Instagram<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Did-Einstein-really-ask-if-the-universe-was-friendly\/answer\/Tom-McFarlane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Did Einstein Really Ask If the Universe Was Friendly? | Quora<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/The_Problem_of_Religion\/nWYiAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;pg=PA114&amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Problem of Religion by Emil Carl Wilm | Google Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/2021\/07\/09\/anne-lamott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anne Lamott on Taming Your Inner Critic, Finding Grace, and Prayer | The Tim Ferriss Show #522<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/trudymorgancole.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/25\/radio-kfkd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radio KFKD | Hypergraffiti<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SHOW NOTES<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[00:07:14] No cherished outcomes.<\/li>\n<li>[00:12:27] Self-compassionate ownership of responsibility.<\/li>\n<li>[00:17:24] The daily practice of writing letters from love.<\/li>\n<li>[00:23:54] Two-way prayer vs. one-way prayer.<\/li>\n<li>[00:32:29] The male approach to this practice.<\/li>\n<li>[00:35:59] How do you feel <em>toward<\/em> yourself vs. <em>about<\/em> yourself?<\/li>\n<li>[00:38:25] Understanding self-hatred to foster self-friendliness.<\/li>\n<li>[00:44:52] Setting boundaries and dealing with those who refuse to honor them.<\/li>\n<li>[00:51:47] Why (and how) Elizabeth avoids big family holiday gatherings.<\/li>\n<li>[00:53:47] Comfort in solitude.<\/li>\n<li>[00:55:10] Much abuzz about Elizabeth\u2019s new \u2018do.<\/li>\n<li>[00:59:24] Boundaries, priorities, and mysticism: a relaxed woman as a radical concept.<\/li>\n<li>[01:05:34] What mysticism brings to Elizabeth\u2019s reality.<\/li>\n<li>[01:08:58] A better question to ask than \u201cWhat do I want?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>[01:11:04] Elizabeth\u2019s hard-ass approach to project commitment.<\/li>\n<li>[01:18:12] Creativity guidance from Elizabeth\u2019s higher power.<\/li>\n<li>[01:22:40] How <em>The Morning Pages<\/em> influenced <em>Eat, Pray, Love<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>[01:25:59] More productive questions to ask than \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>[01:27:48] The pointlessness of purpose anxiety.<\/li>\n<li>[01:32:31] Balancing presence with other aspects of a well-lived life.<\/li>\n<li>[01:37:49] Comfort with mortality.<\/li>\n<li>[01:41:53] What motivates Elizabeth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethgilbert.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Letters from Love<\/em><\/a> newsletter?<\/li>\n<li>[01:43:01] What can potential readers expect from this newsletter?<\/li>\n<li>[01:48:05] \u201cIs the universe friendly?\u201d \u2014 Frederic W. H. Myers<\/li>\n<li>[01:51:01] Parting thoughts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MORE ELIZABETH GILBERT QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW<\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u201cI believe that I am loved beyond measure by a magnificent, complex, amused God who has given me power over practically nothing.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWriting gave me the thing that meditation promised, but I could never have it happen in meditation until very recently where time stops or changes, and I\u2019m here but not here.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m basically a bog witch, just rattling around in a house by myself, talking to myself, watering my plants, shaving my head, and it\u2019s so cool.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhat if I\u2019m not on duty all the time? What if I\u2019m only on duty sometimes and I have to follow a deep inner voice that tells me when that is and what that is, and everything else you all can take care of yourselves.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMartial artists know that the most relaxed person in the room wins the fight.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019ve narrowed it down to three things that I need for me, for my system to be relaxed. It\u2019s boundaries, priorities, and mysticism.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI am good at manifesting what I want, and I\u2019m good at almost dying from getting what I want. So maybe there\u2019s a better question to be asking than, \u2018What do I want?&#8217;\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI think \u2018It\u2019s hard\u2019 is a really good way to start with self-compassion.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s a very difficult thing to have a human incarnation. This is not an easy ride. Even a good life is a hard life.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWho told you you were supposed to get it right straight out of the gate? Who told you you were supposed to get it right seven out of seven days, or that you\u2019re constantly supposed to be improving like a Fortune 500 company, constantly going in this upward angle direction, a certain percentage every quarter? There\u2019s billions of systems operating within your body alone, hormonal systems and chemical systems and viruses and bacteria. We\u2019re such a complex mechanism, it\u2019s so hard to figure out how to operate one of these things. I do really well in solitude, I can get this thing humming. I can get this machine and this mind and this heart where we are at a beautiful hum, but the instant you throw another complex human mechanism into my field, then I\u2019ve got to adapt to their chemistry, and it\u2019s hard.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m much, much, much more afraid of people not liking me than I am of dying. And that\u2019s what I have to suffer with more, is to try to figure out how to disappoint people, and say no to people, and set boundaries with people that they can survive it, and I can survive. This is my work in this lifetime. But death, to me, it doesn\u2019t keep me up at night.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PEOPLE MENTIONED<\/h3>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/tim.blog\/podcast\"><strong>The Tim Ferriss Show<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><span>is one <\/span>of the most popular podcasts in the world with more than one billion downloads. It has been selected for &#8220;Best of Apple Podcasts&#8221; three times, it is often the #1 interview podcast across all of Apple Podcasts, and it&#8217;s been ranked #1 out of 400,000+ podcasts on many occasions. 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