To think Elizabeth Gilbert is really messed up?

[BarilynBordeaux]

I just finished reading her new memoir All the Way to the River, about the last few months of her partner’s life. I’ve never read so much harm done to another person dressed up as another in a long line of apparent spiritual awakenings, even as someone is dying horribly she manages to make it catastrophically self-obsessed and some of the stuff she’s so ‘bravely’ admitting to is pathologically messed up. Did anyone else read it and have the same reaction like they were reading the word salad of a total narcissist? It was an almost visceral dislike and I so rarely have that feeling.

Also apparently not being on HRT is part of her new Sobriety which i find so patronising towards actual sober addicts. Ugh.

Yes - just another grifter monetising pain (other people’s) and exploiting experiences for copy. Influencer in print.

I haven't read it, but her particular brand of delusion was overwhelmingly obvious from the first pages of Eat, Pray, Love, where she imagined a conversation with God, and 'God' kept telling her exactly what she wanted to hear and giving her permission to do whatever, including to do that certain-kind-of-American thing where the rest of the world outside the US is a kind of theme park in which Americans can find themselves.

Ohhhhh, well in this one it’s the spirit of her deceased partner telling her everything she wants to hear and do what she wants in the first few pages. Seems to be a pattern.

Oh, excellent. How convenient that her imagination tends towards inventing Inner Voices that give her their imprimatur to do stuff she wants to do anyway, and praises her for doing it in the guise of Enormous Emotional Honesty/I'm So In Touch With Myself.

I spent those parts of Eat, Pray, Love saying 'What the fuck?'