145. Elise Loehnen: The Price Women Pay to Be Good

The Courageously.u Podcast

Today’s guest is the wonderful Elise Loehnen.

Elise is a writer, editor, podcaster, momma, horse whisperer, and serious book lover. She’s the host of the Pulling the Thread podcast, which is a podcast focused on pulling apart the stories we tell about who we are—and then putting those threads back together. She’s also the author of the instant New York Times bestseller On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good. Elise is also a frequent contributor to Oprah and has written for The NewYork Times, Elle Decor, Stylist, and more. Previously, she was the chief content officer of goop, where she co-hosted The goop Podcast and The goop Lab on Netflix, and led the brand’s content strategy and programming.

In today’s episode, we chat about…

• The seven deadly sins and how they were influenced

• The importance of finding balance with the seven deadly sins

• How envy provides us insight into what we want

• Why it’s important to look at what’s underneath our judgments

• Why mom’s struggle to rest

• How our culture fails to support new moms

• How destabilizing it can be for women to show up

• Why women are terrified to speak up

• How anger is essential

• Why we find safety in not believing in ourselves

• Why we need to get curious when a big emotion arises

…and so much more!

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