Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
ut then we have to remember like it's never out there that we're gonna find the answers that we need. It is only in here and we have to sort of deprogram or de-train ourselves from thinking from that type of thinking: If I just do all of these things, I'll be, well, if I d just do all of these things, I'll be good. If I just do all of these things,... See more
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
Faith as understanding ourself, collecting parts of ourselves
It's like an undeniable reality. It's not a question of like what you believe in or how adherent you are to your faith. This is just, there's a divinity baked into all of us and, the and also that there are all these false binaries or these systems set up as oppositional.
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
Whereas I think we're being asked, or at least I feel called to stay in this place of seeking wholeness, which to me is the path within that construct that's focused on being and focused on self, self-acceptance and focused on recovering parts of myself from shadow and feelings that there's not more for me to do, now is the time where I am trying t... See more
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
And when things don't happen that I want to happen, I, instead of going immediately into victimhood or fear or anxiety, I just try to go back to this like, that's interesting. I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe something better, maybe something different. I'm just gonna say in a place of, of faith, and it's not Pollyanna-ish either. It's just. A, th... See more
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
the universe conspires with you. It doesn't select you, you're not special, but it conspires with you when you put yourself in motion.
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
And the thesis of this gospel is everything that you have is inside. This is an internal experience. And don't do anything that's adulterous to your nature essentially. And by that he meant that's sort of in disobeyance to who you to really are. It's your job to figure out who you really are.
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
There's really no way to do this right.
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
I just feel like continually, we need to remind ourself that we need to be in this space of spirituality, of Mary Magdalene, of the work of wholeness. No one can do that for us. No one, and no one can tell us exactly what that looks like for us or what needs to be done to achieve that.It is deeply personal, internal work. And yes, I think we all ha... See more
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
Faith as a way to relate to myself, move through the world, etc
But faith, let's go.