My Year of Not Making Things Unnecessarily Intense (Monthly Solo)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen

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

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

For December’s solo episode, I looked at the etymology of the word resolutions. What I found might surprise you. And instead of thinking about what I want to be or do next year, it got me thinking about what I want to let go of. And how I can recognize when I’m making things more complicated than they need to be (I love complexity and depth but can sometimes get carried away). I also get into a few other things that are on my mind right now, including: journal speaking, how we sometimes conflate altruism with transaction, the MAHA movement, and ways I can be softer on people while being harder on systems. Last, some news about two of my most fulfilling collaborations, which are both coming out in workbook form in 2025: True and False Magic (with Phil Stutz) and Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness (with Courtney Smith). For the show notes, head over to my Substack. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Lunan host of Pulling the Thread. And today's episode is a solo. We're going to talk about resolutions and the etymology that might surprise you.
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0:38.9	Does the thought of the holiday craze immediately cause a slight or maybe more than slight feeling of anxiety?
0:45.8	Well, I'll be here for you per usual every Thursday with a new episode. And I'll be throwing in a couple of solo episodes on Mondays as well. So take me for a walk.
0:57.2	I will have the same amazing roster of guests leading you back to your soul, which can be
1:03.1	hard to find during the Thread.
1:19.0	On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here.
1:25.3	My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance
1:28.4	and plant tiny seeds of awareness
1:30.4	so that we might all collectively learn and grow.
1:43.1	Hi, friends. Happy end of 2024. It's wild. I just turned 45 in the last month or so, and I'm having those feelings of how did I get to be an adult? I don't understand how this happened. I'm sure many of you can relate, but I still think of myself as a child,
2:03.5	often, or the young one, or the up-and-comer. And it makes me laugh because I am not that. I am
2:11.9	fiercely middle-aged. I might even be moving out of the maiden archetype. Well, actually, what am I
2:20.0	talking about? I'm well out of the maiden archetype. I might almost be moving from the mother
2:24.2	archetype into the queen. I am moving through life with some rapidness. So it's end of the year,
2:33.0	and it's time for New Year's resolutions and I've always chafed
2:36.1	against this idea of resolution. I haven't really made any in the last, I don't know, 10, 20 years.
2:42.3	I certainly made them as kids and I always perceive them as I think we all do in this culture as
2:48.6	these fixed ideas about ways to improve or be better and the things
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