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

and get what you want in life.

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

Kara Loyenthyle.

Hello my chickens, how are you all doing today? I am actually recording this episode

about maybe three or four days into the voluntary self-quarantine social distancing period a lot of us are experiencing or did experience and so it's kind of perfect that the topic I had already scheduled for this

podcast is boredom because boredom is something that a lot of us are going to

experience quite a bit during this pandemic period and I think because we are so bad

with handling boredom we're going to be trying to escape it in a variety of ways that

aren't great for us like buffering with food or booze or Netflix, or buffering with the news, right?

I think our brains sometimes would rather be anxious than be bored, because if we make ourselves anxious enough then we have a problem to solve.

So today I want to talk about boredom, what boredom is even, whether it is or isn't a problem, and how you can handle it.

So the first thing to know that is going to surprise you, some of you, is that boredom's

a thought. It's not a circumstance. It's not something that happens to you.

It's not just the case that you are bored, right, the same way you are awake or are sleeping.

Boredum is not a circumstance.

It's a thought that you have.

You have the thought that you are bored. And that may give rise to a feeling and we could call whatever

that physical sensation is boredom but for me I don't find it so much a physical

sensation if you feel physical sensation when you think

I'm bored, then that's the feeling you've got. That's fine. When I think I'm bored, I don't

find a big physical response in myself. It's different from person to person,

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