Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen
Elise LoehnenWriter Elise Loehnen explores life’s big questions with today’s leading thinkers, experts, and luminaries: Why do we do what we do? How can we understand and love ourselves better? What would it look like to come together and build a more meaningful world?
Moving Away from Hierarchy (Danielle Gibbons)
May 29 • 44m
Is It Time to Stop Optimizing? (Coco Krumme)
May 22 • 38m
Another Way of Seeing Betrayal (Monthly Solo)
Apr 28 • 54m
When Does Manifestation Work? (Anne Emerson)
Apr 10 • 49m
Are You Holding Yourself Back? (Monthly Solo)
Mar 31 • 39m
Activating Your Life Force (Phil Stutz, MD)
Mar 27 • 47m
How to Love Better (Yung Pueblo)
Mar 20 • 46m
Putting Action Before Contemplation (Richard Rohr)
Mar 6 • 1h 4m
When You Quit Being Defensive (Chelsea Handler)
Feb 27 • 47m
Understanding Archetypal Evil (Thomas Hübl, PhD)
Feb 20 • 56m
Becoming Untrapped (Pico Iyer)
Jan 16 • 1h 1m
Wintering with Our Feelings (Katherine May)
Jan 9 • 45m
The Astrological Shifts to Know for 2025 (Heidi Rose Robbins)
Dec 26, 2024 • 56m
The Real Meaning of Resolutions (Monthly Solo)
Dec 23, 2024 • 43m
Finding Understanding in Impossible Times (Father Gregory Boyle)
Dec 19, 2024 • 42m
Engaging with the Inner Life (John Price, PhD)
Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 4m
Tools for Contending with Fear (Courtney Smith)
Dec 5, 2024 • 54m
How to Commune More Deeply with Nature (Maria Rodale)
Nov 27, 2024 • 50m
My Unofficial Investigation of Male Podcasters (Monthly Solo)
Nov 25, 2024 • 48m
The Life Review (Connie Zweig, PhD)
Nov 21, 2024 • 51m
Doing Beautiful Things (Richard Christiansen)
Nov 14, 2024 • 50m
How Do We Work with Our Darkest Energy? (Thomas Hübl, PhD)
Nov 7, 2024 • 51m
Working with Your Enemies (Sharon McMahon)
Oct 31, 2024 • 53m
Staying Rooted in What You Want (Monthly Solo)
Oct 28, 2024 • 54m
The Women Who Raised Consciousness (Clara Bingham)
Oct 24, 2024 • 54m
How We've Evolved to Care (Sarah Blaffey Hrdy, PhD)
Oct 17, 2024 • 44m
Need A Lift? - Episode Preview
Oct 16, 2024 • 50m
Thinking Impossibly (Jeffrey Kripal, PhD)
Oct 10, 2024 • 1h 3m
Evolving, Not Revolving (Edith Eva Eger, PhD)
Oct 3, 2024 • 47m
The Neuroscience of Manifestation (James Doty, M.D.)
Sep 26, 2024 • 50m
Creating from (False) Fundamentals (Sarah Lewis, PhD)
Sep 19, 2024 • 54m
On Finding Our Soul's Vocation (James Hollis, PhD)
Sep 12, 2024 • 1h 2m
Why Cynicism is Not Smart (Jamil Zaki, PhD)
Sep 5, 2024 • 56m
Finding Your Inner Mentor (Tara Mohr)
Aug 29, 2024 • 1h 6m
The Upper Limit Problem (Katie Hendricks, PhD)
Aug 22, 2024 • 55m
Why We Overthink (Amanda Montell)
Aug 15, 2024 • 47m
Being Better Leaders (Jerry Colonna)
Aug 8, 2024 • 53m
Staying with Discomfort (Thomas Hübl)
Aug 1, 2024 • 54m
Really Hearing Our Own Voices (Carol Gilligan): GROWING UP
Jul 29, 2024 • 54m
Finding Shadow in the Body (Thomas Hübl)
Jul 25, 2024 • 53m
Signs of High Intuition (Carissa Schumacher): GROWING UP
Jul 22, 2024 • 1h 31m
The Life-Saving Power of Friendship (Mark Nepo)
Jul 18, 2024 • 45m
The Long-Term Implications of Sleep (Harvey Karp, M.D.): GROWING UP
Jul 15, 2024 • 54m
The Deconstruction of Belief (Sarah Bessey)
Jul 11, 2024 • 59m
The Critical Need for Deep Connection (Niobe Way, PhD): GROWING UP
Jul 8, 2024 • 1h 0m
What Makes a Good Relationship (Stan Tatkin)
Jul 3, 2024 • 51m
Coming Soon: Special Series on Growing Up
Jul 1, 2024 • 1m
Working With Your Energy System (Prune Harris)
Jun 27, 2024 • 58m
Where the Brain and Mind Meet (Karl Deisseroth, M.D., PhD)
Jun 20, 2024 • 53m
To Transcend and Include (Ken Wilber)
Jun 13, 2024 • 1h 20m
Working with the Divine (Nicole Avant)
Jun 6, 2024 • 49m
Recovering Our Ability to Feel (Prentis Hemphill): TRAUMA
Jun 3, 2024 • 51m
The Myth of Resilience (Soraya Chemaly)
May 30, 2024 • 58m
Finding Fear in the Body (Resmaa Menakem): TRAUMA
May 27, 2024 • 47m
Take Back Your Brain (Kara Loewentheil)
May 23, 2024 • 53m
Where Trauma Begins (Peter Levine, Ph.D): TRAUMA
May 20, 2024 • 47m
Choosing Wholeness Over Wokeness (Africa Brooke)
May 16, 2024 • 58m
A Toolkit for Working with Your Trauma (James Gordon, M.D.): TRAUMA
May 13, 2024 • 1h 2m
The Complexity of Weight Loss Drugs (Johann Hari)
May 9, 2024 • 1h 34m
Coming Soon: Special Series on Trauma
May 6, 2024 • 1m
Loving the End (Alua Arthur)
May 2, 2024 • 51m
On Telling The Truth (Nell Irvin Painter)
Apr 25, 2024 • 47m
When it's Time to Leave (Joy Sullivan)
Apr 18, 2024 • 56m
Introducing: Million Dollar Advice
Apr 16, 2024 • 2m
When Love Feels Unbearable (Anne Lamott)
Apr 11, 2024 • 45m
Understanding the Drama Triangle (Courtney Smith)
Apr 4, 2024 • 1h 3m
The Power of Girls (Mattie Kahn)
Mar 28, 2024 • 56m
Breaking Family Patterns (Vienna Pharaon)
Mar 21, 2024 • 55m
The Upsides of Menopause (Lisa Mosconi, PhD)
Mar 14, 2024 • 1h 6m
When Spirituality and Science are the Same (Jeffrey Kripal)
Mar 7, 2024 • 1h 0m
The Basics of Spiral Dynamics (Nicole Churchill)
Feb 22, 2024 • 1h 19m
On Being Basic (Kate Kennedy)
Feb 15, 2024 • 1h 1m
On Maintaining Desire (Emily Nagoski, PhD)
Feb 8, 2024 • 59m
Why Conflict is Critical (John & Julie Gottman, PhDs)
Feb 1, 2024 • 1h 1m
Where Does Fatphobia Come From? (Kate Manne)
Jan 25, 2024 • 1h 1m
On Self-Regulation (Aliza Pressman, PhD)
Jan 18, 2024 • 1h 1m
Seeing Each Other’s Pain (Rabbi Sharon Brous)
Jan 11, 2024 • 1h 2m
Embracing the Shadow (Connie Zweig, PhD)
Jan 4, 2024 • 54m
Five Things I’ve Learned this Year
Dec 28, 2023 • 42m
What Actually Motivates Change? (Carrie Wilkens, PhD): ADDICTION
Dec 26, 2023 • 59m
How Story Can Heal (Akiva Goldsman)
Dec 21, 2023 • 50m
On Reducing Harm & Saving Lives (Maia Szalavitz): ADDICTION
Dec 18, 2023 • 59m
The Malleability of the Brain (David Eagleman)
Dec 14, 2023 • 1h 6m
Breaking the Addiction Binary (Carl Erik Fisher, M.D.): ADDICTION
Dec 11, 2023 • 1h 0m
The Gordian Knot of Mental Illness (Rachel Aviv)
Dec 7, 2023 • 43m
Reimagining Recovery (Holly Whitaker): ADDICTION
Dec 4, 2023 • 57m
Grappling with Part X (Phil Stutz)
Nov 30, 2023 • 43m
Coming Soon: Special Series on Addiction
Nov 27, 2023 • 2m
On Cultivating Creativity & Abundance (Richard Christiansen)
Nov 22, 2023 • 58m
The Risk It Takes To Bloom (Raquel Willis)
Nov 16, 2023 • 45m
Human Design as a Road Map to the Soul (Chetan & Carola): MYSTICAL SYSTEMS
Nov 13, 2023 • 1h 5m
Does Love Require Complete Acceptance? (Jedidiah Jenkins)
Nov 9, 2023 • 54m
The Mystical Roots of Tarot (Mark Horn): MYSTICAL SYSTEMS
Nov 6, 2023 • 47m
Whose Pain Counts? (Susan Burton)
Nov 2, 2023 • 57m
The Secret Astrological System (Jade Luna): MYSTICAL SYSTEMS
Oct 30, 2023 • 1h 0m
When We Hold Ourselves Apart (Chloé Cooper Jones)
Oct 26, 2023 • 57m
The Practical Magic of the Enneagram (Courtney Smith): MYSTICAL SYSTEMS
Oct 23, 2023 • 1h 21m
Conflict as a Tool for Growth (Esther Perel)
Oct 19, 2023 • 59m
Air the Griefances, not the Grievances (Yeshua, channeled by Carissa Schumacher)
Oct 17, 2023 • 2h 2m
Coming Soon: Special Series on Mystical Systems
Oct 16, 2023 • 3m
Simplifying Wellness (Liz Moody)
Oct 12, 2023 • 1h 0m
Healing Our Money Fears (Farnoosh Torabi)
Oct 5, 2023 • 59m
Feeling into Collective Presence (Thomas Hübl)
Sep 28, 2023 • 1h 7m
Thinking Our Way to Health (Ellen Langer)
Sep 21, 2023 • 50m
Contending with Panic (Matt Gutman)
Sep 14, 2023 • 1h 8m
The Science of Failing Well (Amy Edmonson)
Sep 7, 2023 • 52m
On What We Can Become (Kate Bowler)
Aug 31, 2023 • 58m
Why Do We Expect Life to Be Any Other Way? (Nora McInerny)
Aug 24, 2023 • 1h 11m
Navigating Heartbreak (Florence Williams)
Aug 17, 2023 • 59m
What We’ve Chosen to Forget (Baratunde Thurston)
Aug 10, 2023 • 1h 1m
Accepting the Invitation (Frank Ostaseski)
Aug 3, 2023 • 57m
Contending with Fear (Jakki Leonardini)
Jul 27, 2023 • 1h 1m
Our Collective Psychological Development (John Churchill, Psy.D)
Jul 20, 2023 • 1h 8m
The WiFi of the Body (Lauren Roxburgh)
Jul 13, 2023 • 51m
When Women Tell the Truth About Their Lives (Dre Bendewald)
Jul 6, 2023 • 1h 0m
Reconciling with What We Didn’t Receive (Minka Kelly)
Jun 29, 2023 • 1h 5m
Standing at the Edge (Roshi Joan Halifax)
Jun 22, 2023 • 46m
Finding Our Desire (Emily Morse)
Jun 15, 2023 • 1h 11m
The Myth of the Linear Life (Bruce Feiler)
Jun 8, 2023 • 1h 6m
Being Transcendent (Geena Rocero)
Jun 1, 2023 • 1h 6m
How to Change the World (Austin Channing Brown)
May 25, 2023 • 59m
The Making of On Our Best Behavior (my editor, Whit Frick)
May 18, 2023 • 1h 20m
What Makes Marriages Work (Stan Tatkin)
May 11, 2023 • 1h 1m
The Best Strangers in the World (Ari Shapiro)
May 4, 2023 • 59m
Knitting Together our Lives (Peggy Orenstein)
Apr 27, 2023 • 52m
A Fully Sensed Life (Gretchen Rubin)
Apr 20, 2023 • 56m
Reconceiving Our Lives (Maggie Smith)
Apr 13, 2023 • 58m
Igniting Creativity (Ozan Varol)
Apr 6, 2023 • 58m
Making Sense of Time (Jenny Odell)
Mar 30, 2023 • 53m
A Mapmaker for the Soul (Cynthia Bourgeault)
Mar 23, 2023 • 1h 2m
The Origins of Inequality (Angela Saini)
Mar 16, 2023 • 1h 3m
Falling in Love With the World (Katherine May)
Mar 9, 2023 • 1h 2m
Self-Healing In The Dark (Tara Schuster)
Mar 2, 2023 • 54m
Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships (Nedra Tawwab)
Feb 23, 2023 • 51m
The Friendships We Need (Will Schwalbe)
Feb 16, 2023 • 57m
Learning to See Our Parents as They Are (Priscilla Gilman)
Feb 9, 2023 • 1h 2m
What We’re After (Solo Episode)
Feb 2, 2023 • 52m
Understanding Spiritual Power (Carissa Schumacher)
Jan 26, 2023 • 1h 50m
It Begins and Ends with Breath (James Nestor)
Jan 19, 2023 • 54m
In Search of Paradise (Pico Iyer)
Jan 12, 2023 • 1h 1m
Working with the Power of Earth (Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD)
Jan 5, 2023 • 1h 9m
Where Self Meets World (Dan Siegel, M.D.)
Dec 29, 2022 • 1h 2m
The Kitchen Healer (Jules Blaine Davis)
Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 6m
Processing Our Collective Past (Thomas Hübl)
Dec 15, 2022 • 59m
On Collaborating With Ourselves (Alexandra Grant)
Dec 8, 2022 • 59m
Living a Committed Life (Lynne Twist)
Dec 1, 2022 • 58m
The Boundaries We Need (Melissa Urban)
Nov 23, 2022 • 1h 5m
The Closet of Inauthenticity (Jessi Hempel)
Nov 17, 2022 • 48m
Recovering Every Part of Ourselves (Richard Schwartz, PhD)
Nov 10, 2022 • 1h 1m
Decolonizing Wellness (Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins)
Nov 3, 2022 • 1h 10m
The Power of Visual Thinkers (Temple Grandin, PhD)
Oct 27, 2022 • 1h 5m
Being a Good Enough Person (Dolly Chugh)
Oct 20, 2022 • 55m
When Women Lead (Julia Boorstin)
Oct 13, 2022 • 1h 0m
A Map to Your Soul (Jennifer Freed, PhD)
Oct 6, 2022 • 1h 4m
What Makes Love Last (John & Julie Gottman, PhDs)
Sep 29, 2022 • 1h 0m
Embracing Uncertainty (Estelle Frankel)
Sep 22, 2022 • 56m
When Stress Becomes Illness (Gabor Maté, M.D.)
Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 9m
What Makes Us Whole (Susan Cain)
Sep 8, 2022 • 59m
The Fallacy of Time Management (Oliver Burkeman)
Sep 1, 2022 • 56m
Touching the Other Side (Laura Lynne Jackson)
Aug 25, 2022 • 1h 5m
The Power of Myth to Heal (Kwame Scruggs, PhD)
Aug 18, 2022 • 55m
Overriding Implicit Bias (Jessica Nordell)
Aug 11, 2022 • 56m
The Power of the Enneagram (Susan Olesek)
Aug 4, 2022 • 56m
Navigating Quarterlife (Satya Doyle Byock)
Jul 28, 2022 • 55m
Understanding the Intelligence of the Universe (Jeddah Mali)
Jul 21, 2022 • 57m
The Mystery of Spontaneous Healing (Jeffrey Rediger, M.D., M.Div)
Jul 14, 2022 • 51m
Introducing History is US
Jul 11, 2022 • 3m
The Map of Loss (Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD)
Jul 7, 2022 • 46m
The Power of Boundaries (Nedra Tawwab)
Jun 30, 2022 • 54m
Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard)
Jun 23, 2022 • 55m
Don’t Wait to Live (Rabbi Steve Leder)
Jun 16, 2022 • 1h 1m
Finding the Sacred Pause (Jennifer Rudolph Walsh)
Jun 9, 2022 • 50m
Bringing Our “Wise Adults” into Relationship (Terry Real)
Jun 2, 2022 • 56m
From A Slight Change of Plans: "I Don't Feel Like a Boy, I Am a Boy"
Jun 1, 2022 • 14m
The Beauty of Aging (Nigma Talib, N.D.)
May 26, 2022 • 52m
Why Do We Suffer? (Carissa Schumacher)
May 19, 2022 • 1h 9m
Understanding Essential Labor (Angela Garbes)
May 12, 2022 • 58m
Understanding Emotional Inheritance (Galit Atlas, PhD)
May 5, 2022 • 1h 3m
Where Are Our Huddles? (Brooke Baldwin)
Apr 28, 2022 • 1h 5m
When Illness is Not Validated (Meghan O’Rourke)
Apr 21, 2022 • 47m
Navigating Conflict (Amanda Ripley)
Apr 14, 2022 • 58m
Living Without Lying (Martha Beck, PhD)
Apr 7, 2022 • 1h 4m
Why Closure is a Myth (Pauline Boss, PhD)
Mar 31, 2022 • 59m
Having Conversations We’d Rather Avoid (Celeste Headlee)
Mar 24, 2022 • 53m
Passing as “Normal” (Katherine May)
Mar 17, 2022 • 56m
What Our Anxiety Tells Us (Ellen Vora, M.D.)
Mar 10, 2022 • 53m
Manifesting What We Actually Want (Lacy Phillips)
Mar 3, 2022 • 57m
Why Design Matters—and the Courage to Create New (Debbie Millman)
Feb 24, 2022 • 58m
The Psychology of the Body (Olivia Laing)
Feb 17, 2022 • 47m
How Science Got Women Wrong (Angela Saini)
Feb 10, 2022 • 52m
Understanding Our Sexual Potential (Ian Kerner, Ph.D)
Feb 3, 2022 • 51m
Finding Balance in Our Bodies (Aviva Romm, M.D.)
Jan 27, 2022 • 58m
Challenging the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Elizabeth Lesser)
Jan 20, 2022 • 57m
Unblocking the Creative Self (Julia Cameron)
Jan 13, 2022 • 53m
The Guru in Our Own Minds (Mark Epstein, M.D.)
Jan 6, 2022 • 56m
Struggle is Real—Suffering is Optional (BJ Miller, M.D.)
Dec 30, 2021 • 52m
Why Don’t We Believe Women? (Deborah Tuerkheimer)
Dec 16, 2021 • 48m
The Reprioritization of Relationship (Lori Gottlieb)
Dec 9, 2021 • 53m
Solving the American Gun Crisis (Ryan Busse)
Dec 2, 2021 • 57m
My Spiritual Teacher & Yeshua Channel (Carissa Schumacher)
Nov 24, 2021 • 1h 29m
How to End Zero-Sum Thinking (Heather McGhee)
Nov 18, 2021 • 1h 1m
Navigating an Addictive Culture (Anna Lembke, M.D.)
Nov 11, 2021 • 46m
What Our Anger Teaches Us (Harriet Lerner, Ph.D)
Nov 4, 2021 • 1h 0m
Where Did the Patriarchy Come From? (Riane Eisler, PhD)
Oct 28, 2021 • 56m
Healing Male Depression (Terry Real)
Oct 21, 2021 • 58m
Women, Food & Hormones (Sara Gottfried, M.D.)
Oct 14, 2021 • 1h 3m
The Legacy of White Feminism (Kyla Schuller)
Oct 7, 2021 • 1h 5m
Finding the Line Between Savoring and Saving (Jamie Wheal)
Sep 30, 2021 • 1h 6m
Calling In the Call-Out Culture (Loretta Ross)
Sep 23, 2021 • 55m
Building the House of Knowledge (Joy Harjo)
Sep 16, 2021 • 54m
Introducing: Pulling the Thread
Aug 30, 2021 • 3m
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