Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness: A Process for Reclaiming the True Self {Elise Loehnen and Courtney Smith}
Hosted by The Hivery | Open to All
Thursday, September 18 | 6:30–8:30 PM
475 Miller Ave, Suite A, Mill Valley, CA
A workshop and discussion with Elise Loehnen and Courtney Smith as they discuss their new workbook.
Join authors Elise Loehnen and Courtney Smith as they discuss their new workbook Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness: A Process for Reclaiming the True Self.
During this talk and workshop, Elise and Courtney guide the audience through self-inquiries and exercises to explore how cultural norms about womanhood and femininity have unconsciously shaped who we think we are.
Building on Elise Loehnen’s best-selling book, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good, Elise and Courtney’s work offers a set of tools to discover the stories we live by and an opportunity to grow and reclaim the capacity to self-author our lives.
Everyone is welcome at this event.
$40 Hivery Members | $55 Non-Members
Ticket includes the workbook and workshop exercises
Hivery members, purchase your discounted ticket here
Elise Loehnen Fissmer is a writer and editor living in Los Angeles with her husband, Rob, and their sons, Max and Sam. She is the host of Pulling the Thread where she interviews cultural luminaries on the big questions of the day. While she’s co-written 12 books, including five New York Times Best Sellers, her first book under her own name, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good (Dial Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House), was also an instant New York Times bestseller. Previously, she was the chief content officer of goop, where she co-hosted The goop Podcast and The goop Lab on Netflix, and led the brand’s content strategy and programming, including the launch of a magazine with Condé Nast and a book imprint.
Previously, she was the editorial projects director of Condé Nast Traveler. Before Traveler, she was the editor at large and ultimately deputy editor of Lucky Magazine, where she also served as the on-air spokesperson, appearing regularly on shows like Today, E!, Good Morning America, and The Early Show. She has a B.A. from Yale and majored in English and Fine Arts; she also went to St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Before that, she attended a school where lunchtimes were spent jumping an irrigation ditch. Originally from Missoula, Montana, it's important to her that people know that she went to the National Mathletes Championship when she was in 8th grade and that she’s a horse whisperer. These days, she spends her time writing, reading, consulting, doing board work (previously MacKenzie-Childs, currently Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream and SkinFix), and fundraising for causes and politicians focused on environmental action, social justice, women and children’s health, and a more equitable world. Elise serves on the board of the Santa Monica K-6, PS1 and is on the LA Council for the disaster relief and global health no-profit AmeriCares. Elise reads a lot. You can find what she’s currently reading and recommending here, at her Bookshop.org profile, or everything all at once at Goodreads.
Courtney Smith is an executive coach and group facilitator who works with Fortune 500 companies and high-profile individuals to achieve change and live in greater resonance with their values. Courtney is a renowned practitioner and teacher of the Enneagram personality system, which she weaves with other coaching methods into an integrated approach to personal development. Her work has been featured on The Goop and Pulling the Thread podcasts, and she is the co-author with Elise Loehnen of the workbook Choosing Wholeness over Goodness: A Process for Reclaiming Your Full Self. Courtney lives in Santa Barbara with her family.