Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen Podcast
1) In Search of Paradise (Pico Iyer)
“There are many places I'd love to see and I know I would learn from. But if I never see them, I won't be sorry. I mean I feel I'm so happy just being here in my little rented two room apartment in th...Show More
2) The Deep Need for Individuation (Satya Doyle Byock)
One of my favorite repeat guests is back: I’m talking to psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock about the duality of individuation and community. We get into the difference between individuation and ...Show More
3) Remembering How to Play—Even When We're All Grown-Up (Cas Holman)
“This is, I think, when people need more help remembering how to access their play or kind of letting themselves play—because adults do play,” says Cas Holman, a world-renowned desig...Show More
4) When We’re in the Middle of the Story (Terry Tempest Williams)
“Glorians are unearned, unbidden, freely given,” says legendary author and mentor Terry Tempest Williams. “And to me that's also what grace is—those moments of grace that we di...Show More
5) The 3 Great Insights of Kabbalah (Daniel Matt, PhD)
“And that may be its greatest contribution—to insist that God is equally male and female,” says Daniel Matt, PhD, a scholar and teacher of Kabbalah. Matt shares radical revelations, ...Show More
6) How Do We Respond to Human Evil? (Monthly Solo)
I’m reflecting more deeply on evil in the present moment: What is evil? What’s our relationship to it? How do we increase our tolerance for acknowledging dark energies so that we can moder...Show More
7) Past-Life Memories, Near-Death Experiences, and More (Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD)
Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD, is a research scientist at the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), which is a highly unique research group that investigates the mind’...Show More
8) Who Else Is in Our Cosmic Neighborhood? (Avi Loeb, PhD)
“I think that we are most likely to benefit from such an encounter than to suffer from it,” says physicist Avi Loeb, PhD, who describes himself as an optimist in the search for extraterres...Show More
9) Life’s Lightning-Bolt Moments (Lucy Kalanithi, MD)
Lucy Kalanithi, MD, continues to instill hope in me. Today, she shares lessons from her life and her work as a primary care physician (she’s also Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stan...Show More
10) What Actually Makes Us Feel Like We Matter? (Jennifer B. Wallace)
Journalist and bestselling author Jennifer B. Wallace shares the key ingredients to feeling like you matter, and to making others feel like they matter, too. She covers my favorite stories and stats f...Show More