Elise Loehnen On The Price We Pay To Be ‘Good’

Elise Loehnen is a writer, editor and podcast host. She’s also the author of the newly released and instant New York Times bestseller On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good.

Previously, Elise was the chief content officer of goop, where she co-hosted The goop Podcast and she also co-hosted The goop Lab on Netflix.

We start our conversation with Elise talking me through the pivotal moment at the end of 2019, feeling inadequate and exhausted, and contending with consuming anxiety and panic. She realised the way she was living her life simply could not be sustained.

Elise came to recognise that, like so many of us, she was using work - and a ramped up level of busyness - as a tool to numb and to keep her fears at bay.

Through the process of writing this book, and ultimately changing her life, Elise learnt the value of sitting in the discomfort, re-connecting to our inner knowing, prioritising rest, and interrupting our social conditioning.

She shares her simple steps to get really clear on our basic needs, wants and who it is that we want to be, as a person.

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Elise's instant New York Times bestseller: On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good.

Elise's substack: eliseloehnen.substack.com

Elise's podcast: Pulling The Thread

Elise's Instagram: @eliseloehneninstagram.com/eliseloehnen/

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we have recorded this podcast, the Darug people. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.