Sitemap - 2023 - Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen

"I'd Rather Be Whole Than Good."

ADDICTION: What Actually Motivates Change (Carrie Wilkens, PhD)

How Story Can Heal (Akiva Goldsman)

Contemplating the I Ching

ADDICTION: On Reducing Harm & Savings Lives (Maia Szalavitz)

The Malleability of the Brain (David Eagleman)

"I've Given Up Hope for a Better Past"

ADDICTION: Breaking the Addiction Binary (Carl Erik Fisher, M.D.)

The Gordian Knot of Mental Illness (Rachel Aviv)

Self-Help Needs a Rebrand

ADDICTION: Reimagining Recovery (Holly Whitaker)

Grappling with Part X (Phil Stutz)

The Scapegoat

On Cultivating Creativity and Abundance (Richard Christiansen)

Facts vs. Stories

The Risk it Takes to Bloom (Raquel Willis)

When Everything Belongs

MYSTICAL SYSTEMS: Human Design as a Roadmap to the Soul (Chetan & Carola)

Does Love Require Complete Acceptance? (Jedidiah Jenkins)

How to Keep Caring

MYSTICAL SYSTEMS: The Mystical Roots of Tarot (Mark Horn)

Whose Pain Counts? (Susan Burton)

Learning Emotional Release

MYSTICAL SYSTEMS: The Secret Astrological System (Jade Luna)

Who Were the Dictionary People?

When We Hold Ourselves Apart (Chloé Cooper Jones)

Finding Ourselves on the Spiral

MYSTICAL SYSTEMS: The Practical Magic of the Enneagram (Courtney Smith)

Conflict as a Tool for Growth (Esther Perel)

Integration Not Eradication

SIN: Sadness

What's the Work for Us?

Simplifying Wellness (Liz Moody)

Words with Elise: "Avoid"

Resources!

SIN: Anger

Healing Our Money Fears (Farnoosh Torabi)

What Kind of Horse are You?

Words with Elise: "Watch"

The Promise of an Organized Life

Feeling into the Collective Presence (Thomas Hübl)

Words with Elise: "Expert"

Are You Skipping the Saturday?

SIN: Lust

Thinking Our Way to Health (Ellen Langer)

Mini Book Review: MEETING THE SHADOW, by Carol Zweig

No More Shortcuts

Words with Elise: "Diet"

Mini Book Review: HAGITUDE, by Sharon Blackie

Tracing the Phrase: "OId Wives' Tales"

Contending with Panic (Matt Gutman)

How's the Wanting Going?

Mini Book Review: THE SOUL'S CODE, by James Hillman

The Science of Failing Well (Amy Edmonson)

Mini Book Review: THE NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION, by Thomas Merton

The Layers

The Symbolism of the Ladder

On What We Can Become (Kate Bowler)

Paging Tomboy Snow White

Why Do We Expect Life to Be Any Other Way? (Nora McInerny)

SIN: Greed

Why Are We So Scared of Mediocrity?

Navigating Heartbreak (Florence Williams)

Trying vs. Willing

Splitting Ourselves

Tapping Into Creative Potential

Words with Elise: "Hubris"

What We've Chosen to Forget (Baratunde Thurston)

Exercising Appreciation

Realized & Unrealized

Appreciation & Deflection

Accepting the Invitation (Frank Ostaseski)

Radical Candor

Mini Book Review: THE 15 COMMITMENTS OF THE CONSCIOUS LEADER, by Diana Chapman, Jim Dethmer and Kaley Klemp

Understanding the Energy of Shadow

Words with Elise: "Ken"

Words with Elise: "Barbie" / "Barbara"

Who Wore it Better?

Contending with Fear (Jakki Leonardini)

Let's Go Barbie!

Our Collective Psychological Development (John Churchill, Psy.D)

Managing Our Energy

Let's Roll

Counsel vs. Console

The WiFi of the Body (Lauren Roxburgh)

To Counsel or to Console?

Tracing the Phrase: Hocus Pocus

SIN: Gluttony

Mini Book Review: RAGE BECOMES HER, by Soraya Chemaly

When Women Tell the Truth About Their Lives (Andrea Bendewald)

Catching Our Breath

The Meaning of Mary Magdalene

Reconciling with the Past (Minka Kelly)

What would it be like to do nothing?

Standing at the Edge (Roshi Joan Halifax)

SIN: Envy

SIN: Pride

The Chaos of Exercise

Words with Elise: "Radical"

Post-Betrayal Syndrome

Finding Our Desire (Emily Morse)

Wants vs. Needs

Are you Victim, Villain, or Hero?

The Symbolism of Mirrors

SIN: Sloth

The Non-Linear Life (Bruce Feiler)

Why is it So Hard to Scream?

Mini Book Review: LETTING GO by David Hawkins

Mini Book Review: DOPAMINE NATION, by Anna Lembke, M.D.

Mini Book Review: THE SABBATH, by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Words with Elise: "Virtue"

Creating vs. Producing

The Arrival Fallacy

Being Transcendent (Geena Rocero)

The Personal is Universal

Being for Each Other

How to Change the World (Austin Channing Brown)

What a Ride

Owning Our Wanting

The Making of ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR (my editor, Whit Frick)

Mothering

Envy vs. Jealousy

The Symbolism of Hair

Undoing the Drama Triangle

Words with Elise: Sin

What Makes Marriages Work (Stan Tatkin)

Words with Elise: Hag

We are the Ones We've Been Waiting For

Mary Magdalene

Defeating Fear

Mini Book Review: HOW WE LIVE IS HOW WE DIE, by Pema Chodron

Mini Book Review: FALLING UPWARD, Richard Rohr

The Best Strangers in the World (Ari Shapiro)

Right Doing

Words with Elise: Share

Words with Elise: Anger

Creative Grief

Shadow Vows

Transactional Relationships

Knitting Together Our Lives (Peggy Orenstein)

The Canon

Words with Elise: Career

When We Sense Something's Wrong

Words with Elise: Ambition

Offer vs. Give

A Fully Sensed Life (Gretchen Rubin)

Playing Hooky

Resacralizing Saturdays

Reconceiving Our Lives (Maggie Smith)

No More Alligators

Words with Elise: Corporation

Fear of Life

Mini Book Review: BROKEN OPEN, by Elizabeth Lesser

Mini Book Review: THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD, by Alice Miller

Igniting Creativity (Ozan Varol)

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Acceptance vs. Agreement

Transactional Relationships & Shadow Vows

Words with Elise: Betrayal

Making Sense of Time (Jenny Odell)

Looking Out, Rather Than Looking In

States vs. Stages

A Mapmaker for the Soul (Cynthia Bourgeault)

I Need Help

Words with Elise: Resentment

Words with Elise: Discover

Embracing Nondual Thinking

Exploration vs. Expectation

The Origins of Inequality (Angela Saini)

We'll Likely Drive Many Cars

Privacy vs. Intimacy

Ascending and Descending

Forgive vs. Forget

The Uses of Enchantment (Katherine May)

Resisting Being Saved

Acquiescence vs. Allowance

Words with Elise: Denial

Understanding Collective Darkness

5 Key Teachings: A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYTHING, by Ken Wilber

Compassion Fatigue?

Self-Healing in the Dark (Tara Schuster)

Learning to Take Flight

Words with Elise: "Educate"

Anne Emerson: Limiting Subconscious Beliefs + Muscle Checking

Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships (Nedra Tawwab)

Transcend and Include

When Communities are in Shadow

Faith vs. Belief

The Friendships We Need (Will Schwalbe)

Finding a Sacred Crew

Mark Horn: Tarot + Kabbalah

Learning to See Our Parents as They Are (Priscilla Gilman)

Learning to Stand Up Straight

Words with Elise: "Humility"

Truths vs. Facts

Understanding Spiritual Power

Book Note: EVERYBODY, by Olivia Laing

Service vs. Sacrifice

Words with Elise: "Gossip"

Words Matter

7 Key Teachings: THE ALPHABET VERSUS THE GODDESS, by Leonard Shlain

Nik McRae: Astrology + Human Design

Therapy Modality: Schema Therapy

Understanding Spiritual Power (Carissa Schumacher)

PULLING THE THREAD PODCAST

What Does it Mean to Belong?

Words with Elise: "Seminal"

What is Intuition?

Learning How to Breathe (James Nestor)

"I Ask for My Daily Humiliation"

Would you consider yourself religious, spiritual, or neither?

My Recent Energy Healing Experience

In Search of Paradise (Pico Iyer)

The Gift of Synchronicity

Words with Elise: "Mortgage"

Is this thing on?

5 Key Teachings: LADY JUSTICE, by Dahlia Lithwick

Spilling the Vertical

A Love Letter to Failure

Pathological Laziness

The Pull of Rocks

Working with the Power of Earth (Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD)

Words with Elise: "Pathetic"

Tikkun Olam