I didn't feel desirable when I lived in L.A., but things changed when I moved to my new city.
Our relationship with love directly influences our ability to love others in the world; and the deeper we can tap into our own love source, the more genuinely we can share it with others.
Not too long ago, I asked a friend how she's doing. After a long pause, she said, "I keep wondering if this is all there is." A lot of us have that feeling.
A little over a month ago, I had my heart broken. It was far from the first time, and I'm certain it won't be the last. What made this particular time special is I didn't see it coming, and that hasn't happened since the first time.
The old monastic grounds next to the church now serve as a shelter for the needy and homeless of the city. You can't miss the church even from afar.
This summer, I had the priceless experience of living with a Chinese family and truly immersing myself in the local routine. As I immersed myself in Beijing, I experienced quite a few culture shocks.
I'm way beyond that demographic for HBO's "Girls," but I'm admittedly gripped by nostalgia much of the time...I went through some trials and tribulations of my own when I was 20-something and living in the Big Apple. I ended up watching every episode and was forlorn after the season finale.
Who am I to think that my novel is good enough to be published? Am I now as pathetic as those street poets I used to see in Berkeley, peddling their sappy, mistake-laden chapbooks for a dollar a copy? And how the hell does a writer act as her own publicist?
From Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, "The Scarlet Letter," to Elizabeth Gilbert's more contemporary, "Eat, Pray, Love," marital turmoil, divorce,...
Not having children is by far the single greenest action any one of us can take, although the child-free choice is not usually green-motivated.
Before you jump at the chance for a midlife 'do-over,' you may want to consider these three essential psychological components to determine your readiness to take on major transformations at this stage of life.
Travel can be distilled so that it becomes all highlights, all the time—but then you lose the unspectacular details like the grit of the road you shake out of your suitcase before returning it to the attic.
Three guys took 18 flights to 11 countries in 44 days. They shot almost a terabyte (1024 gigabytes) of footage and boiled it down into three one-minut...
It's okay. You can admit it. Everyone has read books that are either popular, critically acclaimed or both, but still been left pondering, "How can an...
Expectation narrows your options, sets you up for disappointment. So set a positive intention, a step-by-step goal, but don't expect to climb Mount Everest the first afternoon.
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat, Pray, Love" and her latest book, "Committed," joined me on Mondays With Marlo to answer your...
But that whiz-bang success also made "Eat, Pray, Love" "synonymous with something very poppy and chick lit-y," the author said in her NYPL talk, notin...
The author of Eat, Pray, Love and last year's follow-up, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage, is back to working on fiction. "I got my star...
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat, Pray, Love" and her newer book "Committed," replies to a question posed by a fan who has nag...
There is no formula for happiness, but what 43 years on this planet has taught me is that life is a circle. Good can turn to bad, and bad back to good -- sometimes instantaneously.
After donating part of his liver to his (now ex-) boyfriend, breaking up and feeling lost, David Jedeikin wrote about it all in his book, Wander the Rainbow.
I've decided that my word for 2011 is "equipoise." I have spent most of my life re-acting to circumstances, but now I am choosing to remain balanced, calm and at peace inside.
They're habituated to the lens of the past. It's only when their performance becomes so god awful or a challenger eats their lunch, that they find a new way. We will have to wait a bit.
It's one of the most unbelievable double-standards that exists today: Where you are born determines where you can travel. For the rest of your life.
When it comes to Javier Bardem, Julia Roberts is eating, praying, loving... and campaigning. Entertainment Weekly reports that Roberts, an Academy ...
