Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen Could We Accept Stillness? (Monthly Solo)
Apr 27, 2026
Reflections on feeling unmoored and the challenge of accepting stillness. A discussion of making space intentionally versus having it forced upon you. Exploration of seeding, growing, and harvesting as life-cycle metaphors. Thoughts on creative surrender, resisting growth-obsessed culture, and living in a seeding phase. Personal travel and family moments woven through the reflections.
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Culture's Loss Of Natural Cycles
- Many people live disconnected from natural cycles, favoring nonstop growth and motion over waiting and ripening.
- Elise Loehnen felt unusually unmoored in April and framed it as a forced stillness that reveals our cultural loss of seasonal rhythm.
Clear Space Before Life Clears It For You
- Make deliberate space by canceling commitments before the universe forces you to.
- Elise recalls Carissa Schumacher telling her that if she didn't clear room, life would cancel plans for her, which later happened during COVID.
Seeding Growing And Harvesting As A Creative Map
- Creative and life processes follow seeding, growing, and harvesting cycles, each with distinct roles and pleasures.
- Elise prefers seeding (ideation, drafting) and resists harvesting; she emphasizes that growth after seeding is largely out of our control.
