Pulling Threads, Weaving Authenticity

If years of over-functioning have left you feeling checked out, numb, or disconnected from your own life, this episode is for you. Sex therapist and intimacy coach Dr. Tabitha Taylor joins Leslie to talk about what it really means to reclaim intimacy from the inside out — and why it starts with you, not your partner. 🌿 Ready to feel like yourself again after divorce or a breakup? → THROUGH — Lesl...

Dating after divorce as a man can feel like you’ve become a whole different person — steadier, easier to be with. Here’s the honest why. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORK WITH LESLIE 1:1 → Book a private, no-pressure discovery call: [1:1 COACHING DISCOVERY CALL — confirm booking URL] The Loom Life (coaching): https://theloomlife.com Therapy (FL clients): https://loomlifetherapy.com Leslie Ellen...

KEEP THE SPARK: STAYING SECURE AND DESIROUS The honeymoon phase fades for almost everyone — but the spark doesn’t have to. In this solo episode, Leslie Mathews unpacks what early passion is really made of and how to stay both secure AND desirous for the long haul. ➤ Work with Leslie 1:1 (individuals & couples): [INSERT DIRECT BOOKING LINK] ➤ The Loom Life: https://theloomlife.com ➤ Therapy: ht...

Divorce doesn’t just end a marriage — it shakes your nervous system, your finances, and your sense of self. In this episode of Pulling Threads, therapist Kimberly McNary, LMFT, and host Leslie Mathews talk through how to move through divorce with clarity and steadiness instead of being run by panic. Kimberly is the founder of The Classy Girl’s Guide to Divorce and uses EMDR and Emotionally Focused...

What does it actually look like to leave a life that looks good on paper — a 20-year marriage, a competitive athletic identity, a familiar world — and rebuild from scratch in your 50s? In this episode of Pulling Threads, Weaving Authenticity, Leslie sits down with Jen Rulon — midlife transformation coach, TEDx speaker, 15-time Ironman finisher, and Kona qualifier — who walked away from her marriag...

What if your burnout isn't a personal failure — but a systemic one? Award-winning journalist Stefanie O'Connell joins Leslie to unpack The Ambition Penalty. 📕 Get Stefanie's book: https://tooambitious.com/book/ 💧 Ready to move through your divorce with structure and support? Explore THROUGH, Leslie's 8-week coaching program → https://theloomlife.com/throughdivorceprogram ────────────── In this c...

Touch hunger is the loneliness no one warns divorced men about — when the isolation stops being emotional and becomes physical. (For the Boys, Round 10.) 🧭 Work with Leslie 1:1. Book a free discovery call → [INSERT DIRECT BOOKING LINK] Coaching: theloomlife.com Leslie: leslieellenmathews.com Therapy (FL): loomlifetherapy.com ↓ SHOW MORE CUTOFF — keep everything above this line above the fold ↓ In...

What happens when the systems that raised you also silenced you? In this episode, memoirist and survivor advocate Kate Johnson joins Leslie to talk about religious trauma, purity culture, and the long road of finding your voice after a lifetime of being told to stay quiet. Kate grew up a pastor's daughter inside the PCA evangelical church, where Calvinist teachings around "total depravity" merged...

If she left and you never saw it coming, you’re not broken — and you’re not alone. Book a free discovery call → theloomlife.com In this “For the Boys” episode, Leslie Mathews — former attorney turned coach — unpacks one of the most common experiences divorced men share in private: “I didn’t see it coming.” Meanwhile, on the other side of that sentence, his wife is certain she’d been telling him fo...

Why do we keep choosing partners who hurt us? In this episode, mental health advocate and author Petrona Joseph joins Leslie to unpack trauma bonds, unsafe love, and the abandonment wound that drives the loop. ▶ WORK WITH LESLIE 8-week divorce recovery program — THROUGH: https://theloomlife.com/throughdivorceprogram 1:1 coaching with Leslie: https://theloomlife.com ▶ ABOUT THIS EPISODE Petrona Jos...

Why do so many men have no close friends by 50? In For the Boys (Ep. 7), Leslie pulls back the threads on male loneliness — and the hidden flaw in how men build friendship. → Work with Leslie 1:1 (book a discovery call): theloomlife.com → In Florida? Therapy with Leslie: loomlifetherapy.com → More from Leslie: leslieellenmathews.com → Instagram @the.loom.life · TikTok @leslieellenmathews ——— If so...

Money is never just money. In this solo episode of Pulling Threads, Leslie Mathews explores why money affirmations and manifestation so often fail — and why real abundance work has to happen in the body, the nervous system, and the family story you inherited. ➤ Ready to do this work with support? Book a free discovery call: https://theloomlife.com/discoverycall ➤ More from The Loom Life: https://t...

What if rock bottom is actually solid ground for the first time? Ariane Vera on starting over after burnout & divorce. ▸ THROUGH — Leslie's 8-week divorce coaching program: https://theloomlife.com/throughdivorceprogram ▸ The Atelier — Ariane's membership for women building businesses: https://www.thejournalofahealer.com/p/the-atelier3 In this episode of Pulling Threads, Weaving Authenticity, L...

Men's anger after divorce isn't really about anger — it's a translator for grief, fear, shame, and longing. Book a discovery call: [DISCOVERY CALL URL] | theloomlife.com If you're a man who is divorced, separating, or on the other side of a long marriage that ended in any direction, this episode is for you. Leslie Mathews walks through the kind of anger that sits in your chest at the grocery store...

Are you in love with a man you’re quietly trying to fix? This episode names the pattern, the psychology behind it, and the way out. There is a script some of us learned long before we ever met him: love hard enough, see deeply enough, hold space generously enough, and you can reach the wounded part of him no one else has reached. Our culture calls these the highest things a woman can offer. Someti...

Healing after divorce starts in the body — not the spreadsheet. In this conversation, crisis coach Pamela Dussault joins Leslie Mathews to share why nervous system reset has to come before any of the practical work, and how women rebuild self-trust after an abusive marriage, burnout, or estrangement. ▶ Ready for structured support through divorce? Learn about THROUGH, Leslie's 8-week coaching prog...

The internet keeps telling men that women secretly want a “beast” — that dominance, danger, and edge are what really attract her, and that being kind makes you invisible. In this episode of Pulling Threads (For the Boys, Episode 5), Leslie Mathews takes that advice seriously instead of dismissing it — and shows exactly where it’s half-true and where it goes dangerously wrong. Using the story of Be...

If you've been dating an avoidant man and you can't quite name what you've been tracking — this is for you. There's a paradox he can't articulate, and you've been guessing for your whole relationship. Today it gets language. 👉 Ready to stop performing your way through this? Book a 1:1 discovery call with Leslie: https://theloomlife.com 👉 If he's willing to do the work, send him the companion men...

Former model and longtime QVC host Chelsea Freeman on what it actually takes to reinvent yourself after a major life pivot — and why looking good has nothing to do with vanity. 🌿 Work with Leslie: https://theloomlife.com ✨ THROUGH — 8-Week Divorce Program: https://theloomlife.com/throughdivorceprogram 📩 leslie@theloomlife.com In this episode of Pulling Threads, Weaving Authenticity, Leslie sits...

Avoidant attachment in men isn't about not wanting love. It's about a paradox almost no one names: you want her to choose you completely AND have a full life that doesn't depend on you. This episode names it. 👉 For the woman in your life who's been confused by you: send her the companion episode "What an Avoidant Man Actually Wants" on the main Pulling Threads feed (dropping next week). 👉 Ready...

In a recent therapy session, my therapist asked me a simple question I couldn't answer: "How would it feel to say I?" I couldn't. ✨ If this episode names something you've been carrying, I work with women on exactly this at The Loom Life → https://theloomlife.com ✨ Ready for structured support through divorce or transition? Explore the THROUGH program → https://theloomlife.com/throughdivorceprogr...

What happens to a teenager who's sent away to be "fixed"? Kaila Miller spent 48 weeks inside a residential program at 16 — and now she's a therapist helping families heal differently. ✨ FROM LESLIE 🌐 theloomlife.com | loomlifetherapy.com | leslieellenmathews.com 💌 Book a discovery call → theloomlife.com 🌿 THROUGH (8-week divorce coaching program) → theloomlife.com/throughdivorceprogram 📩 lesl...

Grounded masculinity isn't a performance — it's a state. What women's nervous systems actually scan for, from a therapist's perspective. 🔗 Work with Leslie 1:1: https://theloomlife.com 🎧 Subscribe to Pulling Threads, Weaving Authenticity for the rest of the For the Boys playlist. In Episode 2 of For the Boys, Leslie Mathews — therapist, coach, and former attorney — unpacks the difference between...

Divorce isn't just emotional — it's physiological. In this solo episode, Leslie walks you through whole-person healing → theloomlife.com Work with Leslie: → THROUGH (8-week divorce coaching program): theloomlife.com/through → Mindful Untangling Community: theloomlife.com/community → Book a 90-minute Power Session or Discovery Call: theloomlife.com — When clients first come to work with Leslie thro...

Burnout, manifesting & reinvention — Cassidy Gard shares her raw journey from Good Morning America to author & mother. 🔗 Pre-order Cosmic Goodness (May 12, 2026): https://amzn.to/4sTTAD3 🌐 Cassidy's website: https://www.cosmicgoodness.com 🌿 Work with Leslie: https://www.theloomlife.com | https://www.leslieellenmathews.com What happens when the version of success you worked your whole li...