Modern Goddess Magazine

‘Eat Pray Love - One Woman’s Search For Everything’ is just that – it’s Elizabeth Gilbert’s search for everything in one twelve month period.  Elizabeth Gilbert is a woman in her 30’s with a fulfilling job, a house and a husband.  She awakens one day with a realisation that she no longer recognises herself in the life she is leading and sets about to make a change.
 
She travels to Italy in search of pleasure, to India in search of inner peace and to Bali to combine a balance between the two extremes.

This book is not a travel book, a biography or a self help text.  It combines elements of all three amongst a desperately honest and, at times, a touching and amusing dialogue of a woman and her inner-self.

I enjoyed this book for what it was - a light-hearted approach about a woman’s struggle to come to terms with her situation and desire to experience life from a more spiritual and meaningful perspective.Prior to her self fulfilling journey, a Balinese medicine man spoke of the method to which Elizabeth would need to focus on in order to reach a balance in her life.  “You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth,” he told her “that it’s like you have four legs, instead of two…But you must  stop looking at the world through your head.  You must look through your heart, instead.”

Whilst travelling to three countries to find ourselves may be a little out of our reach, the book touches upon experiences that can be achieved in more familiar environments.