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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

122. Silver Linings + Positive Spin

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

As you learn about thought work and start using these tools to change your life, it’s only natural to want to speed things up, change all of your beliefs, and start getting the results you want right away. Something I’ve seen every single one of my students do at some point is ‘silver-lining’ their thoughts to feel better, and today I’m showing you how this isn’t conducive to the process and why it doesn’t work.


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0:00.0

Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain

0:16.3

and get what you want in life.

0:18.6

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

0:24.7

Kara Loyenthyle.

0:27.8

Hello my chickens, how are you? Are we all surviving February? I was just laughing

0:39.2

with my friend Kelly who's a friend of mine from law school because we used to have a rule that we're not allowed to make any life decisions in February

0:47.3

Because especially in law school

0:49.3

February you were just kind of like prone to lose your mind.

0:53.0

Now that I know about thought work, obviously I no longer have decision-making rules for specific months,

0:58.0

but I do sometimes have to ask myself like if it was light outside and warm like would I make the same decision right what

1:06.4

would I be thinking then but we're almost to March I think we're gonna make it and

1:09.7

I really shouldn't complain because I just got back from a weekend in San Francisco where it was 60 degrees and beautiful.

1:17.0

San Francisco was really bringing it.

1:19.0

I decided to run away for the weekend to spend some time with my dear friends who live in the Bay Area.

1:24.8

I got to spend six hours one day with my friend Rachel, who is an amazing coach, one of my best friends

1:30.0

who I met in 2015 when I went to go to training.

1:32.7

And then the next day I got to spend another chunk of time

1:35.9

with my friend Ashby, who is an amazing therapist,

1:38.8

and who I've known since I was 13.

1:41.1

So that's like 25 years. That crazy and we were laughing about how her

1:46.0

husband asked me a question about the Constitution and she was like why are you

1:49.6

asking her that and he said well she was a. And we were laughing about how she'd basically forgotten

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