Another Way of Seeing Betrayal (Monthly Solo)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

For April’s guest-less episode, I’m looking back on the wild ride that was this month, and trying to make sense of this period of contemplation in my life. I share a few realizations I’ve had about: uncertainty (involving Phil Stutz’s “evil wedding cake” theory); betrayal (involving a special tarot reading with Mark Horn); whether or not I have faith that the universe will support me (involving a group workshop on what women want); and what we’re meant to be doing here (involving a gondola ride with Chelsea Handler). I also answer a couple of listener questions about how I manage my time, and my research and creative processes. For the show notes, head over to my Substack.== Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread.
0:04.1	Today's episode is my monthly solo, which has become, I have to say, a bit of a ritual for me.
0:11.8	So thanks for hanging in there with me.
0:17.8	Amazon offers employees up to £8,000 for education and training, like Juliet.
0:23.6	She's now a trained technician. And to her, the sound of machinery in need of repair, reminds
0:31.6	her of how far she's come. In two years, she's landed her dream job, providing her with valuable skills.
0:39.9	That's up to £8,000 for education and training at Amazon.
0:44.1	Eligibility conditions apply.
0:59.1	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread.
1:05.3	On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here.
1:12.3	My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness so that we might all collectively learn and grow.
1:18.2	Hi, friends. Welcome to the end of April. One of maybe the wildest rides, I'd say, of the last
1:26.9	few years. I'm not saying a lot. It's so
1:29.5	interesting to think back even since 2020 and to contemplate where we've been and where we're still
1:41.6	continuing to go. I, for one, I'm not expecting anything to get easier in the near future.
1:50.5	Though today's episode, what I want to talk to you about is this strange synthesis
1:55.4	period of contemplation I'm at in my life and why and how I've come to understand it
2:04.2	fundamentally as a question of faith, faith in the universe to support me and faith in the
2:11.5	universe that there's some collective unfolding that we can, if not rely on, that we can come to trust blindly,
2:21.4	rationally in some way. And so I'm going to tell you the story of how all of these threads
2:26.0	have come together in my mind. And at the end, I'm going to answer a couple of questions about
2:32.3	the creative process and the writing process. At some point, I mentioned somewhere that I have more or less sort of eight jobs or eight buckets of income. And that was very startling to people. And so I've been getting a lot of questions about how I manage my time and make room for the things
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