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Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen
Mental Health
Trauma
Addiction
Personal Growth
Self-Improvement
Creativity
Recovery
Spirituality
Parenting
Grief
Harm Reduction
Shadow Work
Neuroscience
Emotional Intelligence
Love
Community
Women Empowerment
Enneagram
Codependency
Relationships

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? Sales and Distribution by Lemonada Media lemonadamedia.com/

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If you’ve been tuning into July’s special series of sorts, thank you, and I hope you’ve also been enjoying revisiting these conversations from the archives, or maybe you’re discovering them for the first time. Today, we have a big one with Jungian an... more

I’m thrilled to be back on the podcast mic again—I’ve been healing from a double mastectomy and I’m doing well! Thank you to everyone who has been thinking of me. This update covers: the surgery experience, the energy healers and lymphatic masseuse I... more

Gabor Maté, MD, is renowned for his work on addiction, stress, trauma, and understanding and healing from illness. He has written several books, including The Myth of Normal. As part of a special series of sorts this month, I’m turning back to a conv... more

I believe this is the most-listened-to episode ever on Pulling the Thread. It’s a conversation that I had with therapist Esther Perel in 2023 that still stands to this day—but that’s Esther for you. I think it also highlights how difficult it remains... more

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Gabor Maté
Renowned physician known for work on addiction, stress, trauma, and illness
Author and physician
Episode: When Stress Becomes Illness (Gabor Maté, MD)
Esther Perel
Renowned psychotherapist and author
Private practice / author of Mating in Captivity, The State of Affairs
Episode: Conflict as a Tool for Growth (Esther Perel)
BJ Miller
Palliative medicine physician
HJ Miller, MD/ palliative care expert
Episode: Struggle Is Real—Suffering is Optional (BJ Miller, MD)
Mark Wolynn
Author of It Didn't Start with You; director at the Family Constellation Institute
Family Constellation Institute (San Francisco)
Episode: Getting Out of the Unconscious Loyalty Trap (Mark Wolynn)
Belle Burden
Author of Strangers, memoirist
Author of Strangers
Episode: Reckoning with the End of a Relationship (Belle Burden)
Paul Eastwick
Psychology professor; author of Bonded by Evolution
UC Davis (as described in episode)
Episode: What’s Behind Lasting Attraction? (Paul Eastwick, PhD)
Sharon Blackie
Psychologist, writer, and mythologist
Episode: Why Women Need Fairytales Now (Sharon Blackie, PhD)
Andrew Holecek
Interdisciplinary scholar and Tibetan Buddhist teacher; author of Total Eclipse of the Mind
Author/Teacher
Episode: The Promise of Dark Retreat (Andrew Holecek)
Bruce Feiler
Best-selling author and ritual design advocate
Author; author of A Time To Gather
Episode: Designing Your Own Ritual (Bruce Feiler)

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Elise Loehnen
Host of Pulling The Thread

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4.8 out of 5 stars from 2.3k ratings
  • A favorite liaten

    Elise’s podcast episodes are always relevant and resonant! She has introduced me to wise and wonderful humans and shares so many wisdom gems of her own. My heart and mind are expanded with every listen and I’m grateful for all she generously offers and shares.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Listening2love
    United States2 months ago
  • A generous thinker

    Elise Loehnen approaches her interviews and delivery of her solo shows with intelligence, sincerity and levity making her show a consistently enriching experience to listen to.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    RBiffin
    Australia4 months ago
  • Are you mad @ me

    Amazing episode, love this podcast so much for challenging my thinking, broadening my perspective, and validating feelings I sometimes struggle to articulate! Forever listener ♾️💓

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    mjglitter
    Canada4 months ago
  • Insights on how to practice a better life

    I have listened to Pulling The Thread for a few years now, and keep coming back to how authentic and accessible these conversations and solo episodes are. Elise is upfront about producing this herself and the challenges therein, and in the meantime offers up incredibly rich (deep) life topics and expert voices. In a sea of shows on wellness or mindfulness etc., this is my favorite. Anyone slightly attracted to it will be inclined to really commit for the full journey after one or two episodes.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    BikingInSeattle
    United States4 months ago
  • Clear, inspiring, mind opening

    Love Elise‘s eloquent way of phrasing and framing what she shares with such clarity and dedication. Grateful for her perspectives.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Uta O
    United States5 months ago

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Getting Out of the Unconscious Loyalty Trap (Mark Wolynn)
Q: What practical steps can someone take to start changing these patterns without formal therapy?
Start by identifying positive, life-giving experiences that calm the nervous system, practice staying with uncomfortable sensations for 60 seconds, and use mindful, gratitude-based or somatic exercises to down-regulate the vagus nerve and create new neural pathways.
Getting Out of the Unconscious Loyalty Trap (Mark Wolynn)
Q: Can you share a story that illustrates how these patterns show up in a real person's life?
A young woman who deeply cut herself began with a narrative about not belonging to herself; through a family-constellation exercise, she connected her self-harm to unresolved trauma in grandparents, recognizing a lineage of messages about not deserving to live and the rescue of a living energy from ancestors.
Getting Out of the Unconscious Loyalty Trap (Mark Wolynn)
Q: For listeners who aren't familiar, how would you summarize the core idea of inherited trauma and attachment patterns?
Trauma can be transmitted not just through memories but through biology and emotional patterns that pass down in DNA expression and attachment dynamics, influencing relationships and health for generations unless we actively re-pattern with new experiences and conscious work.
What’s Behind Lasting Attraction? (Paul Eastwick, PhD)
Q: Is there evidence that social networks influence who people end up dating?
Yes, networks facilitate introductions and can provide a safer, contextual signal about a potential partner, often leading to relationships that develop through mutual connections.
What’s Behind Lasting Attraction? (Paul Eastwick, PhD)
Q: What role do dating apps play in shifting our expectations about dating timing and success?
Apps tend to compress dating into brief impressions, which can overestimate the importance of initial traits but often miss how people grow into attraction through repeated interactions.

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2. Esther Perel
3. BJ Miller
4. Mark Wolynn
5. Belle Burden
6. Paul Eastwick
7. Sharon Blackie
8. Andrew Holecek

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