Review: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

 
 
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Eat, Pray, Love BY ELIZABETH GILBERT

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 (5/5)

My favorite part about book blogging is being able to talk about everything that I love. I find so much fulfillment and joy in promoting the books and authors that have changed my life for the better. This is a long-winded introduction into the first book that did precisely that - Eat, Pray, Love singlehandedly changed my life and expanded my way of thinking.

To give you a little context on my background so that you might understand the perspective that I am coming from, I grew up in a small suburb outside Charlotte, North Carolina where I was raised by my maternal grandparents. While my grandparents did an amazing job raising me and supported me in all of the traditional ways, I spent most of my childhood going through the motions of traditional religion. The concept of spirituality, travel, soul-searching, were far — if not the furthest — from my realm of thinking… Until this book.

In shorthand, what I love the most about this book and about Elizabeth Gilbert, in general, is that she provokes this simple question — what do I want, truly, and then inspires me to reach for it — unapologetically.

This book will always be 5 stars for me and I can promise that if you have struggled with anxiety or depression, felt guilty for choosing a direction for your life that disagrees with what everyone else wants for you, felt stuck, trapped, paralyzed in your life — this book will likely resonate with your soul just as deeply as it resonated with mine.

 
 
Ashley Carr