Song of Myself (Leaves of Grass)

This book by Walt Whitman was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Elizabeth Gilbert. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, psychedelics, trauma & ptsd. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “another poet who gets me is is Walt Whitman and what women saying describing himself in a song of myself”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “another poet who gets me”
  Elizabeth Gilbert · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 202000:37:31

  Said during "Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creative Path, Saying No, Trusting Your Intuition, and More". The episode features Elizabeth Gilbert: Number one New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and the novel City of Girls. A former award-winning magazine journalist whose career spans acclaimed fiction and nonfiction. Elizabeth Gilbert on grief, creativity as spiritual practice, trusting bodily intuition, and saying a clean, guilt-free no.