Pulling Threads, Weaving Authenticity

By Leslie Mathews

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Pulling Threads is a podcast for women navigating life, career, past and current trauma, breakups and divorce, motherhood, reinvention, and the brave work of becoming who they’re meant to be. Hosted by therapist, coach, and founder of The LooM Life, Leslie Mathews, JD, MSW, this show blends trauma-informed guidance, nervous system education, and meaningful conversations about the patterns that shape our relationships, identity, and purpose.

Each episode explores the complicated places where life asks us to grow — healing from emotional abuse, rebuilding after divorce, midlife identity shifts, attachment wounds, dating again, motherhood, and rediscovering your voice. Many guests share their own stories of reinvention, entrepreneurship, career pivots, and stepping into authenticity, offering inspiration and practical wisdom for women building new chapters.

Through expert interviews, personal storytelling, and mindfulness-based tools, Pulling Threads supports women who are healing, expanding, and creating aligned lives and businesses. It’s a space for those navigating toxic dynamics, strengthening emotional regulation, or following the pull toward something more authentic and more fulfilling.

If you’re ready to untangle old patterns, trust your intuition, and weave a life — and identity — that feels grounded, empowered, and true, this podcast is where your next chapter begins.


Episode Date
Stop Trying to Fix Him: The Michelangelo Effect
May 21, 2026
Healing After Divorce: Nervous System Reset & Self-Trust
May 19, 2026
They Told You Women Want a Beast
May 17, 2026
What an Avoidant Man Actually Wants, and The Part Nobody Talks About
May 14, 2026
Reinventing Yourself After Big Life Pivots | Chelsea Freeman
May 12, 2026
For Men: Avoidant Attachment in Men And What They Actually Want
May 12, 2026
The Disappearing “I”: When Women Lose Themselves in Love
May 08, 2026
Sent Away at 16: A Troubled Teen Industry Survivor’s Story
May 05, 2026
Grounded Masculinity: What Women Actually Scan For
May 02, 2026
Healing During and After Divorce: Body, Mind, & Nervous System
Apr 30, 2026
Burnout, Manifesting & Reinvention w/ Emmy Winner Cassidy Gard
Apr 28, 2026
Why Divorce Loneliness Hits Men So Hard (And What’s Actually Happening)
Apr 25, 2026
Self-Care Isn’t Enough: Heal Trauma with Self-Regulation
Apr 21, 2026
Finding Your Voice Again: Heal Through Music | Demaree Hill
Apr 14, 2026
The Divorce Glow Up, What Social Media Is Not Showing You
Apr 10, 2026
Divorce Financial Clarity: What a CDFA Wants You to Know
Apr 07, 2026
Why Friends Gossip During Your Divorce And How to Heal
Apr 04, 2026
When Friends Aren’t Enough | Erin Snow & The Unmuted Room
Mar 31, 2026
When You Feel Nothing... Divorce Numbness
Mar 27, 2026
Mom Burnout, Self-Doubt & Career Transitions | Liz Bakshi
Mar 24, 2026
Surviving Covert Narcissistic Abuse: Kids, Courts & Money
Mar 17, 2026
Is it Intuition or a Trauma Response? How to Tell the Difference
Mar 13, 2026
Navigating Trauma in Family Court After Emotional Abuse
Mar 10, 2026
Turning 50 & Rewriting My Story: Healing, Divorce, Mindfulness & Finding Myself Again
Mar 08, 2026
Triggered or Activated? Understanding Your Nervous System Story
Mar 03, 2026
Avoidant Attachment in Love: Why You’re Drawn to Him & How to Break the Cycle
Feb 24, 2026
Dating and Relationship Q&A with Therapist and Coach
Feb 19, 2026
Why Midlife Feels So Hard: Perimenopause, Emotional Reactivity & Identity
Feb 17, 2026
Reclaiming Your Voice, Healing Silence
Feb 12, 2026
Love Shouldn’t Hurt: Navigating Toxic Relationship Dynamics
Feb 10, 2026
Good Girl Syndrome Unraveled
Feb 06, 2026
Breaking the Cycle: Parenting Through Divorce with Compassion and Strength
Feb 03, 2026
Confronting Therapists’ Podcasting Fears
Jan 28, 2026
Divorce After a High-Control Marriage: Identity Loss, Faith, and Finding Yourself Again
Jan 27, 2026
Trauma and Regulation in Turbulent Times
Jan 25, 2026
Finding Strength in Voice: A Conversation on Identity and Growth
Jan 20, 2026
Redefining Life After Divorce: Lessons from Amber Shaw
Jan 13, 2026
People-Pleasing, Perfectionism & Parental Burnout: How to Feel Present Again | Mackenzie Kinmond
Jan 06, 2026
Part I: Lost Alignment and Authenticity
Jan 01, 2026
Manifestation That Actually Works: Identity, Nervous System & Aligned Action| Liza Lounsberry Part 2
Dec 30, 2025
Endings, Beginnings, and Gentle Clarity 2025 26
Dec 25, 2025
Therapist to Coach in 2026: Trust, Visibility, and AI with Carly Hill
Dec 23, 2025
Embracing Transformation A Journey from Inner Work to Outer Results
Dec 16, 2025
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Healing Journey
Dec 11, 2025
The Future of Therapy: AI, Coaching, and Human Connectionm
Dec 09, 2025
Separation and Divorce Struggles, Holidays Away From Kids
Nov 27, 2025
Finding Yourself in an Unfulfilling Marriage: Should You Stay or Go?
Nov 21, 2025
Empowering Women in Toxic Workplaces: A Conversation with Mary Eldridge
Nov 13, 2025
Food as Medicine How What We Eat Shapes Our Mind, Mood, and Health
Oct 31, 2025
Rebuilding Self Trust & Finding Your Voice After Toxic Relationships & Narcissistic Abuse
Oct 27, 2025
Reclaiming Sleep Professional Guidance from Therapist and Coach Melissa Good
Oct 24, 2025
Empowering Parents Sobriety and Blended Family Strategies
Oct 02, 2025
Intuitive Eating Breaking Free from Diet Culture with Ellina Creary
Sep 28, 2025
Why Women Stay Trauma, Shame, Hope
Sep 17, 2025
Neuroplasticity & New Beginnings Finding Healing Through Golf
Jul 29, 2025
Rewriting Our Stories of Beauty
Jul 01, 2025
Navigating Beauty: The New Era of Medical Asthetics with Lisa Hahn
Jun 30, 2025
Meeting Emotional and Sexual Needs After Breakups
Jun 22, 2025
Heartbreak to Healing After Breakups
Jun 20, 2025
Understanding Deception The Intent, Impact, and Healing
Jun 19, 2025
Ep 14 Protecting Our Growth as We Let Go of Our Old Narratives, Even When Others Cannot
May 20, 2025
E13: Mindful Organization: Merging Business and Balance with Kirsten Fisher
May 12, 2025
Ep 12 Self-Preservation: What once protected us, now holds us back
May 05, 2025
Ep 11: Beauty, Bravery, and Entrepreneurship with Chelsea Larkins
Apr 19, 2025
Episode 10: The Journey from Law to Light—Rebecca’s Path to Energy Coaching + AI Alchemy
Apr 18, 2025
Episode 9 Embracing Love: Letting Go of Control and Finding Freedom
Apr 09, 2025
Embracing Grief and Healing in Divorce
Mar 31, 2025
Episode 7: The Manipulation Vortex Explained. Love Bombing, Gaslighting, etc.
Mar 14, 2025
Episode 6: Trauma Anniversaries
Mar 14, 2025
Episode 5: Dating in 2025
Feb 26, 2025
Episode 4: Introductions
Feb 04, 2025
Episode 3: Navigating the Mixed Feelings: When Dread and Excitement Co-Exist
Jan 30, 2025
Episode 2: Strategies to stop Rumination
Jan 27, 2025
Episode 1: Rumination and Overthinking
Jan 27, 2025