Relaxed Woman Revolution Photography by Tanita Seton Photography
AUTHOR, SPEAKER AND A RELAXED WOMAN, ELIZABETH GILBERT, WHO ONLY A MERE 16 YEARS AGO PROCLAIMED THAT SHE WAS IN A DEEP STATE OF DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND SHAME.
addictive impulse” which meant that she was continually wavering between abandoning herself and trying to be good, and abandoning herself and acting out for immediate gratification.
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he felt like a failure due to her believing she blew up her marriage and didn’t want to have kids and was sick and suffering. She put herself through hell due to feeling the one person she wanted to love her, rejected her. Liz openly shared on her Instagram earlier this year about the pivotal changing point in her life that instigated her Eat, Pray, Love journey; It was up until that point in her life, she had been guided only by two forces: People pleasing and
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She then went on to say “But here is what I DID have: A tiny whisp of a thread barely connecting me to a dim, distant sense of God...and I had a weird, faint, illogical idea that I wanted to learn to speak Italian... and I had my work as a writer. (My writing: The one aspect of my life that I had never degraded, and had always nourished and held sacred.)” She goes on to say “I wrote an email to my editor, who had already published three of my books. The letter was no more than a page long. I told him what I wanted to do. Where I wanted to travel and why. I told him
that I wanted to write a memoir, even though I had never written about myself before.” “I don’t remember exactly what I said in that letter, but I remember what he said: “Do it. Go.” And on September 3, 2004, she did it. She went. Now sixteen years later, Liz is creating a “relaxed revolution” – it might seem unusual as ‘relaxed’ isn’t a word or state that is common when describing women. Yet, the one thing we all need more of to completely revolutionise our lives is relaxation. At the Ultimate Girls Week Away in February this year, Liz held one workshop and a keynote that was based on her Relax Revolution which had the room full of women in awe
