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The Rich Roll Podcast · September 11, 2025 · 146m
Beyond Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert on addiction beyond substances — sex, love, codependency. Six years of celibacy as self-care after buying drugs for her dying partner. The hardest recovery isn't from substances; it's from patterns of self-abandonment.
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Gilbert: codependency is performing a version of yourself that the other person needs — the caretaker, the savior, the accommodator. Recovery from codependency means finding and defending the self you abandoned.
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Gilbert: sobriety from love and sex addiction produced the same 'force multiplier' effect as sobriety from substances. When you stop using relationships as a drug, every other area of life improves.
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