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When Spirituality and Science are the Same (Jeffrey Kripal)
“Historically, there's no such thing as a pure tradition. And I also think as human beings, we transcend these religions and we transcend these cultures. And so the cherry picking is an affirmation o…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Five Things I’m Thinking About: The Creative Process, Pricing Your Work, Inspiration vs. Discernment, Insanity, and the Etymology of Should
Hi, it’s Elise Loehnen, host of PULLING THE THREAD. Today, it’s just me. I’m sharing five things I’ve been thinking about a lot—from understanding how to quantify and charge for one’s time, what to c…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
The Basics of Spiral Dynamics (Nicole Churchill)
“Turquoise is looking for how do we bring back the village? How do we live in community again? Why are we living in these separate houses? We're not sharing resources. Everyone on the street has a sn…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
On Being Basic (Kate Kennedy)
“When I went back and looked at some of these shows that I loved, I noticed that the writer's room was all adult men with the exception of one or two episodes in Saved by the Bell's case. And I just …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
On Maintaining Desire (Emily Nagoski, PhD)
“The deal is your bodies are going to change over time and people can stay attracted to somebody's body over time, even though it is unrecognizable from what it was like when they first met because t…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Why Conflict is Critical (John & Julie Gottman, PhDs)
“Every single human being is a pack animal. That's what we are biologically. We would die if we didn't depend on each other. Saying what you need is a form of connecting with your partner and saying,…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Where Does Fatphobia Come From? (Kate Manne)
“I think there's a lot of assumptions in play here that a good body is a thin one, a thin body is achievable, a thin body is achievable for everyone, and that you will be fully in control of your hea…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
On Self-Regulation (Aliza Pressman, PhD)
“I think that with regulation, the funny thing is that it's either I want to control the weather around my children, or I want to control my children, but regulation is very much a self thing for adu…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Seeing Each Other’s Pain (Rabbi Sharon Brous)
"How do we center the voices that traditionally and historically we know existed, but were only marginalized in the tradition? And that does feel like holy work. And for me, in part, when I encounter…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Embracing the Shadow (Connie Zweig, PhD)
“If you have a reaction to a stranger or someone in the media or someone in politics or someone who's just providing this kind of blank slate because you don't really know him or her, then it's a pro…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago