Confronting the “good girl” trap with Elise Loehnen
CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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In this podcast I talk to bestselling author and podcast host Elise Loehnen about being a woman in today’s world, the price we as women pay to be “good” and “on our best behavior”, how this impacts our mental wellbeing, and so much more!
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Elise is also the author of the New York Times bestseller On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good. This incredible book “weaves together history, memoir, and cultural criticism to explore the ways patriarchy lands in the bodies of women and embeds itself in our consciousness—and what we then police in ourselves and in each other”. It is about the way we as women are programmed by culture and society to adhere to certain ideas about “goodness”. in many ways, women, from young are programmed to be on their best behavior, while men are programmed to be powerful, which affects all parts of a woman’s life.
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| 0:29.7 | Hi I'm Dr Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental Mess. |
| 0:36.0 | Elise Learn is an American writer and the host of the podcast Pulling the Thread. |
| 0:41.0 | Her New York Times book on Our Best Behavior was published in |
| 0:44.8 | 2023 and explores how the seven deadly sins have shaped cultural programming |
| 0:49.9 | and dictated the way women police themselves and other women. |
| 0:54.0 | And in today's podcast we have an absolutely fascinating and really important discussion |
| 0:58.6 | exploring the cultural programming and the price women pay to be good. |
| 1:03.0 | So let's dive in. |
| 1:05.0 | Elise, it's such a pleasure to have you on my podcast. |
| 1:11.0 | You talk about something so important. You have such an |
| 1:14.0 | interesting background which will also start. We are in a moment but thank you for |
| 1:17.9 | what you do and I'm just getting people excited to anticipate you teaching and telling us about what is so important |
| 1:26.0 | and that is how women have been so, what is it, biased in the society and how you have written |
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