Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen and Audacy

Weekly podcast. Next episode on Thursday.

Writer 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?

219 episodes • 0 archived •

When Does Manifestation Work? (Anne Emerson)

April 10

49 mins

The Desire for Miracles and Wonder (Elaine Pagels, PhD)

April 3

55 mins

Are You Holding Yourself Back? (Monthly Solo)

March 31

39 mins

Activating Your Life Force (Phil Stutz, MD)

March 27

47 mins

How to Love Better (Yung Pueblo)

March 20

46 mins

What Are Non-Speaking Telepathic Autistic Savants Trying to Teach Us? (Diane Hennacy Powell, MD)

March 13

51 mins

Putting Action Before Contemplation (Richard Rohr)

March 6

1h 4m

When You Quit Being Defensive (Chelsea Handler)

February 27

47 mins

Who Is a Prophet, and Who Is Profiteering? (Monthly Solo)

February 24

43 mins

Understanding Archetypal Evil (Thomas Hübl, PhD)

February 20

56 mins

How to Talk to People You'd Rather Hate (Loretta J. Ross)

February 13

52 mins

Is this the Cure for Chronic Pain and Anxiety? (Nicole Sachs, LCSW)

February 6

1h 1m

What We Got Wrong About the Female Body (Cat Bohannon, PhD)

January 30

45 mins

Avoiding the Temptations of the Blame Game (Monthly Solo)

January 27

38 mins

Why We Go Along with Things We Don’t Like (Sunita Sah, PhD)

January 23

54 mins

Becoming Untrapped (Pico Iyer)

January 16

1h 1m

Wintering with Our Feelings (Katherine May)

January 9

45 mins

A 4-Step Process for Changing the Patterns That Hold You Back (Gabby Bernstein)

January 2

46 mins

The Astrological Shifts to Know for 2025 (Heidi Rose Robbins)

Dec 26, 2024

56 mins

The Real Meaning of Resolutions (Monthly Solo)

Dec 23, 2024

43 mins

Finding Understanding in Impossible Times (Father Gregory Boyle)

Dec 19, 2024

42 mins

Engaging with the Inner Life (John Price, PhD)

Dec 12, 2024

1h 4m

Tools for Contending with Fear (Courtney Smith)

Dec 5, 2024

54 mins

How to Commune More Deeply with Nature (Maria Rodale)

Nov 27, 2024

50 mins

My Unofficial Investigation of Male Podcasters (Monthly Solo)

Nov 25, 2024

48 mins

The Life Review (Connie Zweig, PhD)

Nov 21, 2024

51 mins

Doing Beautiful Things (Richard Christiansen)

Nov 14, 2024

50 mins

How Do We Work with Our Darkest Energy? (Thomas Hübl, PhD)

Nov 7, 2024

51 mins

Working with Your Enemies (Sharon McMahon)

Oct 31, 2024

53 mins

Staying Rooted in What You Want (Monthly Solo)

Oct 28, 2024

54 mins

The Women Who Raised Consciousness (Clara Bingham)

Oct 24, 2024

54 mins

How We've Evolved to Care (Sarah Blaffey Hrdy, PhD)

Oct 17, 2024

44 mins

Need A Lift? - Episode Preview

Oct 16, 2024

50 mins

Thinking Impossibly (Jeffrey Kripal, PhD)

Oct 10, 2024

1h 3m

Evolving, Not Revolving (Edith Eva Eger, PhD)

Oct 3, 2024

47 mins

The Neuroscience of Manifestation (James Doty, M.D.)

Sep 26, 2024

50 mins

Creating from (False) Fundamentals (Sarah Lewis, PhD)

Sep 19, 2024

54 mins

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

56 mins

Finding Your Inner Mentor (Tara Mohr)

Aug 29, 2024

1h 6m

The Upper Limit Problem (Katie Hendricks, PhD)

Aug 22, 2024

55 mins

Why We Overthink (Amanda Montell)

Aug 15, 2024

47 mins

Being Better Leaders (Jerry Colonna)

Aug 8, 2024

53 mins

Staying with Discomfort (Thomas Hübl)

Aug 1, 2024

54 mins

Really Hearing Our Own Voices (Carol Gilligan): GROWING UP

Jul 29, 2024

54 mins

Finding Shadow in the Body (Thomas Hübl)

Jul 25, 2024

53 mins

Signs of High Intuition (Carissa Schumacher): GROWING UP

Jul 22, 2024

1h 31m

The Life-Saving Power of Friendship (Mark Nepo)

Jul 18, 2024

45 mins

The Long-Term Implications of Sleep (Harvey Karp, M.D.): GROWING UP

Jul 15, 2024

54 mins

The Deconstruction of Belief (Sarah Bessey)

Jul 11, 2024

59 mins

The Critical Need for Deep Connection (Niobe Way, PhD): GROWING UP

Jul 8, 2024

1 hr

What Makes a Good Relationship (Stan Tatkin)

Jul 3, 2024

51 mins

Coming Soon: Special Series on Growing Up

Jul 1, 2024

1 min

Working With Your Energy System (Prune Harris)

Jun 27, 2024

58 mins

Where the Brain and Mind Meet (Karl Deisseroth, M.D., PhD)

Jun 20, 2024

53 mins

To Transcend and Include (Ken Wilber)

Jun 13, 2024

1h 24m

Working with the Divine (Nicole Avant)

Jun 6, 2024

49 mins

Recovering Our Ability to Feel (Prentis Hemphill): TRAUMA

Jun 3, 2024

51 mins

The Myth of Resilience (Soraya Chemaly)

May 30, 2024

58 mins

Finding Fear in the Body (Resmaa Menakem): TRAUMA

May 27, 2024

47 mins

Take Back Your Brain (Kara Loewentheil)

May 23, 2024

53 mins

Where Trauma Begins (Peter Levine, Ph.D): TRAUMA

May 20, 2024

47 mins

Choosing Wholeness Over Wokeness (Africa Brooke)

May 16, 2024

58 mins

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

1 min

Loving the End (Alua Arthur)

May 2, 2024

51 mins

On Telling The Truth (Nell Irvin Painter)

Apr 25, 2024

47 mins

When it's Time to Leave (Joy Sullivan)

Apr 18, 2024

56 mins

Introducing: Million Dollar Advice

Apr 16, 2024

2 mins

When Love Feels Unbearable (Anne Lamott)

Apr 11, 2024

45 mins

Understanding the Drama Triangle (Courtney Smith)

Apr 4, 2024

1h 3m

The Power of Girls (Mattie Kahn)

Mar 28, 2024

56 mins

Breaking Family Patterns (Vienna Pharaon)

Mar 21, 2024

55 mins

The Upsides of Menopause (Lisa Mosconi, PhD)

Mar 14, 2024

1h 2m

When Spirituality and Science are the Same (Jeffrey Kripal)

Mar 7, 2024

1 hr

Five Things I’m Thinking About: The Creative Process, Pricing Your Work, Inspiration vs. Discernment, Insanity, and the Etymology of Should

Feb 29, 2024

37 mins

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

59 mins

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

54 mins

Five Things I’ve Learned this Year

Dec 28, 2023

42 mins

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

Dec 26, 2023

59 mins

How Story Can Heal (Akiva Goldsman)

Dec 21, 2023

50 mins

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

Dec 18, 2023

59 mins

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

1 hr

The Gordian Knot of Mental Illness (Rachel Aviv)

Dec 7, 2023

43 mins

Reimagining Recovery (Holly Whitaker): ADDICTION

Dec 4, 2023

57 mins

Grappling with Part X (Phil Stutz)

Nov 30, 2023

43 mins

Coming Soon: Special Series on Addiction

Nov 27, 2023

2 mins

On Cultivating Creativity & Abundance (Richard Christiansen)

Nov 22, 2023

58 mins

The Risk It Takes To Bloom (Raquel Willis)

Nov 16, 2023

45 mins

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

54 mins

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

Nov 6, 2023

47 mins

Whose Pain Counts? (Susan Burton)

Nov 2, 2023

57 mins

The Secret Astrological System (Jade Luna): MYSTICAL SYSTEMS

Oct 30, 2023

1 hr

When We Hold Ourselves Apart (Chloé Cooper Jones)

Oct 26, 2023

57 mins

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

59 mins

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

3 mins

Simplifying Wellness (Liz Moody)

Oct 12, 2023

1 hr

Healing Our Money Fears (Farnoosh Torabi)

Oct 5, 2023

59 mins

Feeling into Collective Presence (Thomas Hübl)

Sep 28, 2023

1h 7m

Thinking Our Way to Health (Ellen Langer)

Sep 21, 2023

50 mins

Contending with Panic (Matt Gutman)

Sep 14, 2023

1h 8m

The Science of Failing Well (Amy Edmonson)

Sep 7, 2023

52 mins

On What We Can Become (Kate Bowler)

Aug 31, 2023

58 mins

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

Aug 24, 2023

1h 11m

Navigating Heartbreak (Florence Williams)

Aug 17, 2023

59 mins

What We’ve Chosen to Forget (Baratunde Thurston)

Aug 10, 2023

1h 1m

Accepting the Invitation (Frank Ostaseski)

Aug 3, 2023

57 mins

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

51 mins

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

Jul 6, 2023

1 hr

Reconciling with What We Didn’t Receive (Minka Kelly)

Jun 29, 2023

1h 5m

Standing at the Edge (Roshi Joan Halifax)

Jun 22, 2023

46 mins

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

59 mins

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

59 mins

Knitting Together our Lives (Peggy Orenstein)

Apr 27, 2023

52 mins

A Fully Sensed Life (Gretchen Rubin)

Apr 20, 2023

56 mins

Reconceiving Our Lives (Maggie Smith)

Apr 13, 2023

58 mins

Igniting Creativity (Ozan Varol)

Apr 6, 2023

58 mins

Making Sense of Time (Jenny Odell)

Mar 30, 2023

53 mins

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

54 mins

Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships (Nedra Tawwab)

Feb 23, 2023

51 mins

The Friendships We Need (Will Schwalbe)

Feb 16, 2023

57 mins

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

Feb 9, 2023

1h 2m

What We’re After (Solo Episode)

Feb 2, 2023

52 mins

Understanding Spiritual Power (Carissa Schumacher)

Jan 26, 2023

1h 50m

It Begins and Ends with Breath (James Nestor)

Jan 19, 2023

54 mins

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

59 mins

On Collaborating With Ourselves (Alexandra Grant)

Dec 8, 2022

59 mins

Living a Committed Life (Lynne Twist)

Dec 1, 2022

58 mins

The Boundaries We Need (Melissa Urban)

Nov 23, 2022

1h 5m

The Closet of Inauthenticity (Jessi Hempel)

Nov 17, 2022

48 mins

Recovering Every Part of Ourselves (Richard Schwartz, PhD)

Nov 10, 2022

57 mins

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

55 mins

When Women Lead (Julia Boorstin)

Oct 13, 2022

1 hr

A Map to Your Soul (Jennifer Freed, PhD)

Oct 6, 2022

1h 4m

What Makes Love Last (John & Julie Gottman, PhDs)

Sep 29, 2022

1 hr

Embracing Uncertainty (Estelle Frankel)

Sep 22, 2022

56 mins

When Stress Becomes Illness (Gabor Maté, M.D.)

Sep 15, 2022

1h 9m

What Makes Us Whole (Susan Cain)

Sep 8, 2022

59 mins

The Fallacy of Time Management (Oliver Burkeman)

Sep 1, 2022

56 mins

Touching the Other Side (Laura Lynne Jackson)

Aug 25, 2022

1h 5m

The Power of Myth to Heal (Kwame Scruggs, PhD)

Aug 18, 2022

55 mins

Overriding Implicit Bias (Jessica Nordell)

Aug 11, 2022

56 mins

The Power of the Enneagram (Susan Olesek)

Aug 4, 2022

56 mins

Navigating Quarterlife (Satya Doyle Byock)

Jul 28, 2022

55 mins

Understanding the Intelligence of the Universe (Jeddah Mali)

Jul 21, 2022

57 mins

The Mystery of Spontaneous Healing (Jeffrey Rediger, M.D., M.Div)

Jul 14, 2022

51 mins

Introducing History is US

Jul 11, 2022

3 mins

The Map of Loss (Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD)

Jul 7, 2022

46 mins

The Power of Boundaries (Nedra Tawwab)

Jun 30, 2022

54 mins

Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard)

Jun 23, 2022

55 mins

Don’t Wait to Live (Rabbi Steve Leder)

Jun 16, 2022

1h 1m

Finding the Sacred Pause (Jennifer Rudolph Walsh)

Jun 9, 2022

50 mins

Bringing Our “Wise Adults” into Relationship (Terry Real)

Jun 2, 2022

56 mins

From A Slight Change of Plans: "I Don't Feel Like a Boy, I Am a Boy"

Jun 1, 2022

14 mins

The Beauty of Aging (Nigma Talib, N.D.)

May 26, 2022

52 mins

Why Do We Suffer? (Carissa Schumacher)

May 19, 2022

1h 9m

Understanding Essential Labor (Angela Garbes)

May 12, 2022

58 mins

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

47 mins

Navigating Conflict (Amanda Ripley)

Apr 14, 2022

57 mins

Living Without Lying (Martha Beck, PhD)

Apr 7, 2022

1h 4m

Why Closure is a Myth (Pauline Boss, PhD)

Mar 31, 2022

59 mins

Having Conversations We’d Rather Avoid (Celeste Headlee)

Mar 24, 2022

53 mins

Passing as “Normal” (Katherine May)

Mar 17, 2022

56 mins

What Our Anxiety Tells Us (Ellen Vora, M.D.)

Mar 10, 2022

53 mins

Manifesting What We Actually Want (Lacy Phillips)

Mar 3, 2022

57 mins

Why Design Matters—and the Courage to Create New (Debbie Millman)

Feb 24, 2022

58 mins

The Psychology of the Body (Olivia Laing)

Feb 17, 2022

47 mins

How Science Got Women Wrong (Angela Saini)

Feb 10, 2022

52 mins

Understanding Our Sexual Potential (Ian Kerner, Ph.D)

Feb 3, 2022

51 mins

Finding Balance in Our Bodies (Aviva Romm, M.D.)

Jan 27, 2022

58 mins

Challenging the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Elizabeth Lesser)

Jan 20, 2022

57 mins

Unblocking the Creative Self (Julia Cameron)

Jan 13, 2022

53 mins

The Guru in Our Own Minds (Mark Epstein, M.D.)

Jan 6, 2022

56 mins

Struggle is Real—Suffering is Optional (BJ Miller, M.D.)

Dec 30, 2021

52 mins

Where Should Work Fit in Our Lives (Anne Helen Petersen & Charlie Warzel)

Dec 23, 2021

56 mins

Why Don’t We Believe Women? (Deborah Tuerkheimer)

Dec 16, 2021

48 mins

The Reprioritization of Relationship (Lori Gottlieb)

Dec 9, 2021

53 mins

Solving the American Gun Crisis (Ryan Busse)

Dec 2, 2021

57 mins

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

46 mins

What Our Anger Teaches Us (Harriet Lerner, Ph.D)

Nov 4, 2021

1 hr

Where Did the Patriarchy Come From? (Riane Eisler, PhD)

Oct 28, 2021

56 mins

Healing Male Depression (Terry Real)

Oct 21, 2021

58 mins

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

55 mins

Building the House of Knowledge (Joy Harjo)

Sep 16, 2021

54 mins

Introducing: Pulling the Thread

Aug 30, 2021

3 mins

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