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? It is a strange experience to be recording these

podcasts right now because I often record them a few at a time and right now we're in

those first few weeks of the COVID-19 spread and it's hard to know what's going to be happening in the next few weeks

when this is released. But at the same time it actually doesn't matter at all

because the whole point of thought work is that it's not the circumstances that create our feelings, right?

It's always our thoughts and we always get to choose how we want to think, how we want to show up, and what we want to feel. And everything I teach applies in a time of peace and in a time of pandemic, right? Because it's always about we can't control the outside,

how can we manage ourselves on the inside.

If you are observing your mind,

it's such a fascinating exercise

to watch how your experience can ricoche from panic to totally fine,

depending on what you happen to think or read or hear in a given moment, right?

Because it all depends on what thought you're having at any given time.

I think this is one of the most powerful thought work practices,

even in a moment like this, right, is that you can feel the difference in your own

emotional experience just based on what you happen to be thinking about.

So if you're thinking about the news and statistics for an hour and

freaking out and then you get distracted by your cat doing something cute in the

moment you're looking at your cat doing something cute you are no longer

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