Why Women Need Fairytales Now (Sharon Blackie, PhD)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Lemonada Media

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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“That’s the kind of story, that's the kind of image that I'm talking about—that really just sinks into you and won’t let go,” says psychologist Sharon Blackie. Today, Blackie returns to discuss her new book Ripening: Why Women Need Fairytales Now. Once again, her perspective is helping me make sense of who we are at different stages of our lives. For the show notes, head to my Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:05.7	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread. Today I'm talking to Sharon Blackie, who is a psychologist and a teacher and one of my favorite thinkers.
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1:07.4	If you're looking for another podcast that tackles life's big questions and who isn't looking for this, check out the Signal Award-winning podcast, No Small Endeavor.
1:17.0	No Small Endeavor explores one of life's biggest questions. What does it mean to live a good life?
1:22.8	Each episode hosts an award-winning theologian Lee C. Camp sits down with thoughtful guests to explore the ideas and habits that help people flourish.
1:31.6	We definitely have some similar interests and overlapping guests. For example, we both interviewed the wonderful Sharon McMahon, Joy Harjo, and Jen Hatmaker.
1:41.0	So this could be a sweet companion podcast for you too. Just follow No Small
1:46.1	Endeavor on your favorite podcast app.
1:58.7	Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread.
2:02.3	On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here.
2:08.6	My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness
2:13.7	so that we might all collectively learn and grow.
2:21.3	Here is today's guest Sharon Blackie on using story to make sense of who we are. And I have found certainly as I kind of look back at my own
2:28.4	life that fairy tales in lots of ways have mapped it. You know, the particular stories and images from particular
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