06/07/2026
My go-to film has always been Eat Pray Love.
Maybe because a part of me hopes that one day I'll be brave enough and in a position where I can do what Liz does. To choose three places, for three reasons, that are completely and unapologetically about me and my own journey.
What keeps drawing me back to the film and even more so the book, is how much of Liz's story exists in so many of us.
We move through day-to-day life getting lost in other people. We blame circumstances, relationships, jobs and experiences for what's wrong deep inside, rather than looking honestly at what is really asking for our attention.
Yet so many of life's twists and turns are not happening to us but for us. They arrive to free us, redirect us, teach us or transform us.
We live in a society that conditions us through fear. Fear of change. Fear of being judged. Fear of choosing ourselves. Over time, many of us lose trust in our own instincts. Our needs are pushed to the back of the queue for so long that we stop knowing how we truly feel.
So we stay in the cycle.
Repeating the same patterns, the same lessons, the same struggles, until eventually something reaches breaking point.
Now imagine, just for a moment, that you were able to step outside of your life.
With fresh eyes, you could see the things you've been avoiding, feel the emotions you've been suppressing and acknowledge the truths you've been running from.
Not through judgement. Not through forced positivity but through honest awareness.
What if every person, every challenge, every heartbreak and every unexpected turn had been a messenger, guiding you to this exact point?
Not as punishment but as an invitation.
An invitation to understand yourself more deeply.
To reconnect with your truth. To become free from the patterns that no longer serve you.
Elizabeth Gilbert writes:
"If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting... and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you."
What if life offered you a journey like Liz's?
Where might it take you?
What truth might you discover?
And what might you finally be ready to let go of?
In true Liz style it's Food for Thought 🤔
Lots of Love
Fiona ✨🩷
