![]() ![]() ![]() This is the memorial that my love, Rayya Elias, requested for herself…and it is so perfectly Rayya! She didn’t want a headstone. Experiences like caregiver burnout, such as when the caregiver feels emotionally exhausted, are common, as are experiences of guilt or regret. (“Super Soul Sunday” is an interview program on Winfrey’s TV network OWN, and full episodes can be viewed on .) The author is also promoting her newest novel, “ City Of Girls,” which was published earlier this month.Īs a caregiver and now widow, Gilbert addresses a universal experience of feeling a tsunami of emotions regarding a loved one’s suffering. ![]() Gilbert directed readers to her “Super Soul Sunday” interview with Oprah Winfrey about this whole subject if they would like to learn more. “Mercy for the difficult - sometimes impossible - dilemma of being human.” “My job on this earth (according to Rayya in her last days) has only ever to learn how to find mercy for myself,” Gilbert wrote. In fact, being a “perfect” anything was not her purpose at all. Right before Elias’ death, Gilbert apologized to her for not being “a perfect caregiver.” Elias let her partner know that she “had it all wrong,” and that being a perfect caregiver was not her purpose at all. ![]() Yet her partner taught her something important in her dying weeks: Gilbert was not meant to be the perfect caregiver. A post shared by Elizabeth Gilbert on at 6:25pm PDT ![]()
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