# Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert on addiction, loss, co-dependency, love, grief and rage. Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/postcards-from-midlife-103003/eat-pray-love-author-elizabeth-gilbert-on-addiction-loss-co-dependency-love-grief-and-rage Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/postcards-from-midlife-103003/eat-pray-love-author-elizabeth-gilbert-on-addiction-loss-co-dependency-love-grief-and-rage.md Podcast: [Postcards From Midlife](https://stenobird.com/podcast/postcards-from-midlife-103003) Published: 2026-02-08T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/postcardsfrommidlife/episodes/eat-pray-love-author-elizabeth-gilbert-on-addiction-loss-co Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/postcardsfrommidlife/e/6986094b9a20cfbf33c2b026/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/postcards-from-midlife-103003/episodes/eat-pray-love-author-elizabeth-gilbert-on-addiction-loss-co-dependency-love-grief-and-rage Duration seconds: 3648 ## Resource Trish & Lorraine meet the international best selling author to pick up the story of her life detailed in her new memoir All The Way to the River: Love, Loss & Liberation . Elizabeth speaks with moving honesty about her love story with her ‘wife’ Raya, their descent into addiction, and the rage and pain of profound grief. She also shares her spiritual learnings & life philosophies for our midlife years, including how to stop ‘purpose anxiety’, why gentle curiosity rather than one big passion makes for a more interesting life, why women need to stop pouring themselves into others & her experiment in ‘honest ageing’.  Plus: Margo the podcat turns 80, what to do with dreadful gifts & the mystery of the stock cube in the pyjama pocket Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/postcards-from-midlife-103003/episodes/eat-pray-love-author-elizabeth-gilbert-on-addiction-loss-co-dependency-love-grief-and-rage/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/postcards-from-midlife-103003/eat-pray-love-author-elizabeth-gilbert-on-addiction-loss-co-dependency-love-grief-and-rage.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.