Book Club Meets: “I’m a love and sex addict!” Elizabeth Gilbert copes with co-dependency and grief

Book Club Meets: “I’m a love and sex addict!” Elizabeth Gilbert copes with co-dependency and grief

Author: Fearne Cotton November 13, 2025 Duration: 55:14

You might know Elizabeth Gilbert as the author of Eat Pray Love; now, she’s written All The Way To The River, charting her electric, heart-breaking relationship with her partner Rayya, who died in 2018.


In this Book Club chat, Fearne explains that she chose this to be part of the Happy Place Book Club because she recognised so many of her own behaviour traits in it – see: chaotic relationships and people pleasing!


Elizabeth talks through how to tell if you’re co-dependent, what a love and sex addict really is, and how to block someone’s number for your own emotional safety.


Fearne and Elizabeth also get into those moments where you want to react with defensiveness and rage, and how to extend compassion to yourself and others instead.


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