Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen
Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen
CATEGORY: Society & Culture
45-minute conversations and investigations with today's leading thinkers, authors, experts, doctors, healers, scientists about life's biggest questions: Why do we do what we do? How can we come to know and love ourselves better? How can we come together to heal and build a better world?
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The Power of Boundaries (Nedra Tawwab)“As a therapist, I started to discover that when people need boundaries, they start to have issues around anxiety in their relationships, some depression, because they're not able to really stand up. Or they fe… -
Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard)“As scientists, we often look at one thing and we say, oh, that's the one thing it's competing for light. And then, and that's true. That's what people did. You know, the science, the experiments were simple, u…
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Don’t Wait to Live (Rabbi Steve Leder)“There are 12 questions that enable every person who's willing to, to answer them, to reevaluate their life and their legacy. Because what I have found, um, with my father's death is I miss not a single materia…
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Finding the Sacred Pause (Jennifer Rudolph Walsh)“I didn't wanna be still, I had to be still, but I, I, I wanted more than anything to continue being a human doing. And the universe was insisting that I became a human being and it's profound. I mean, it's the…
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Bringing Our “Wise Adults” into Relationship (Terry Real)“I talk about dysfunctional relational stances that would repeat over and over again. For example, angry pursuit is an oxymoron. Angry pursuit will never get complaining about how the person isn't close to. You…
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From A Slight Change of Plans: "I Don't Feel Like a Boy, I Am a Boy"I'm sharing a special preview of A Slight Change of Plans, a podcast all about who we are and who we become in the face of change. Dr. Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist who is an expert on human behavior, a…
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The Beauty of Aging (Nigma Talib, N.D.)“I think the key is to really believe it when you see something that you're doing every day in your diet that is making your hormones off or your skin off it, a lot of women know what's happening to their bodie…
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Why Do We Suffer? (Carissa Schumacher)"If you are in a Western life and, and are designed as an empath or a spiritual being that feels things very deeply, it is important for you to hold and maintain your peace and to send, to usher that energy to…
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Understanding Essential Labor (Angela Garbes)"This to me is basic, but it feels like we've drifted really far from it in our culture. That to be a human, the basic condition of being a human is being needful. You know, like we need air, we need housing, w…
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Understanding Emotional Inheritance (Galit Atlas, PhD)"When we talk about the ghost of the unsaid, we're talking about the inherited feelings of our parents, unprocessed trauma, where the Phantoms that lived inside them, We're talking about traumas that our parent…
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Where Are Our Huddles? (Brooke Baldwin)"I talk to so many women who, you know, we talk about huddle and we talk about, I referenced, you know, back catalog friends, people who I've known for years and years, you are never too late to add to your hud…
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When Illness is Not Validated (Meghan O’Rourke)“One reason I wrote the book is that the lack of recognition is such a powerful harm done to patients. And I think until you've gone through an experience like this, it's really hard to convey why that is. But…
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Navigating Conflict (Amanda Ripley)“Usually in high conflict, the conflict becomes the whole point. So you make a lot of mistakes and you can miss opportunities that would actually be in the interest you are fighting for. The reason you got into…
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Living Without Lying (Martha Beck, PhD)“I’ve won arm wrestles with big muscular men, right out of prison because you align the energy. Everything wants to harmonize with it and things start to flow with you and it's silent and it's, it's quiet, it's…
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Why Closure is a Myth (Pauline Boss, PhD)You have to have something new to hope for sure. You might still keep hoping that somebody with a terminal illness might get better and indeed they do sometimes. Or you might hope as after 9/11, that somebody w…
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Having Conversations We’d Rather Avoid (Celeste Headlee)"So if we take that off the table, if we take off this, this goal of changing somebody's mind, then what are you left with? What's what's your purpose in the conversation? And I feel like not only is that more…
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Passing as “Normal” (Katherine May)“I increasingly feel that modern life is becoming intolerable for everyone, whether they're neurodivergent or not. I think we've noticed it earlier. I think, you know, we've reached our point of unbearable disc…
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What Our Anxiety Tells Us (Ellen Vora, M.D.)“I think we're due for a cultural rebranding around crying. I think that crying, you know, if we start to cry, we inevitably apologize or invariably apologize. We sort of suck it back in and make it as small as…
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Manifesting What We Actually Want (Lacy Phillips)"When I would witness somebody that I identify with in whatever capacity of what I'm calling in, have, what I want or are successful in what I would like to be successful in. Um, or, you know, they are on that…
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Why Design Matters—and the Courage to Create New (Debbie Millman)I think what makes it much more difficult to, to have the courage, to continue to experiment, you know, look at somebody like Joni Mitchell or Rickie Lee Jones, people that at their moment of peak success, comm…
