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 master coach Kara Loyenthyle.

Hello my chickens so you probably noticed we did not have a Thursday episode this week.

Had the short bonus episode on Monday

about kind of what is the point of thought work

and allowing and processing negative emotion and using it to help us change the world and

we're talking more about that.

So this week's episode is coming a little bit late and I apologize for that but it's because I wanted to

record a bunch of new teaching and content for you guys and so we'll be picking up with some of the

pre-recorded episodes you know later on next week but I wanted to put together stuff that would be

really relevant to what was going on for you so we've got kind of two things coming up

today's episode is all about how white people mostly can use

thought work to get to know and uncover their own biases. Some of that material may be somewhat

familiar if you've listened to the episode on how to the internal bias and

how to be a better ally, but I've kind of developed it more, taking it in some other directions, and I also

talk about people pleasing and racism. Like one of the reasons that I think white people, especially

white women, don't speak up, is you know know the intense fear of what other people

will think whether it's worrying that people won't think they're woke enough or

that they did it wrong or when they hear something racist around other white people worrying that, you know,

it'll be awkward and uncomfortable for them to speak up. So I talk about where all of that comes from and how you can use thought work and

processing emotion in order to get more willing to do that. I really encourage you to

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