Emotional Health & Creative People

Tami Simon: Let’s start right with self-acceptance as a topic that you care about – why is this an important topic to you personally

Elizabeth Gilbert: Well, I mean I’ve kind of been a student of it my whole life because I’ve had to be, because its absence – it’s moments of absence – in my life have brought me the darkest pain I’ve ever been in.

"What happens is so many people walk around triggered all day long because we carry these deep-rooted wounds from childhood that we’ve carried with us forever.

"And we walk around and we’re triggered all day long, and we have no idea. So we just think that’s who we are. We just think that we’re just a pain in the ass or we’re just upset all the time."

Gabrielle Bernstein is author of Judgment Detox.