Not every book club pick is a hit. Mechelle Wingle and Chalene are joined by Graham and Richard of the Bears, Tea and Tarot podcast for an honest conversation about Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir All the Way to the River. In this video: • A round of Two Truths and a Lie, including a dessert with a royal connection. • Why the book left all four of them with more questions than warm feelings. • Codependency explained by a therapist, and what the story leaves out about where addiction and over-giving come from. • Spiritual bypassing and "hopium": when spiritual stories stand in for real grief and real work. • Why sitting with someone in their pain can help more than trying to take it away. • Death as transformation, and why no one else's story can be a prescription for your own. Good for book lovers, anyone who has loved someone through addiction, and anyone wary of easy spiritual answers.