Adopt a lifestyle of self-healing by feeding your body on the cellular level. In the movie, which is based on a true story, the main character traveled to Italy, India and Bali having her fill of the best of the local foods and gained weight while doing so. Psychologists often help people with compulsive eating disorders, but there are foods that help to reduce stress, mainly those with high fiber and rich concentrations of carbohydrates, as well as plenty of fruits and vegetables.* The process of healing ourselves begins with detoxifying our bodies.
Detoxify your spirit through prayer. According to Newadvent.org, prayer is "an act of the virtue of religion which consists in asking proper gifts or graces...In a more general sense it is the application of the mind to Divine things, not merely to acquire a knowledge of them but to make use of such knowledge as a means of union...This may be done by acts of praise and thanksgiving, but petition is the principal act of prayer." In the movie, the character appeared to be of good moral character. She discovered at an important time in life that the semi-typical "box of norms" did not fulfill her personal needs as a woman and as a true giver. She was motivated to divorce her husband so she could go and discover what life was truly all about. The question became "Will she go around in a circle only to end up back at home?" The book is more involved with detail about the divorce itself than the movie, but in the end, the main character does find the peace she is seeking with a man who is spiritually better suited for her. But first, she prayed to her God to purge herself of the guilt that was holding her back.
Commit your desire to love to a cause bigger than yourself. The movie appears to tell us that love is more than wanting it for ourselves in order to tie it into a one-to-one relationship and build a family. It is about learning to love others outside of our own self-motivated needs and desires. Hope prevails that love will come back to us in a better form than we are taught to put into it. The main character of the story seems to have erased or blotted out her "normal" life to travel the world, going from the general to the specific; then coming back around to the very thing that she thought she didn't want, but with a more suitable mate. In order to love and be truly loved, the understanding from this book and the movie treatment of it is that love is too big to keep to ourselves. When the right time comes, love will present itself to us in ways we never imagined.