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 guys? I am amazing. I have been doing so much work on the

clutch college online body image breakthrough class that I am

offering inside the clutch. It's been just such a powerful reminder to me of how you know I think women are given this catch

22 of your appearance matters so much your weight matters so much you should always

look young and unrinkled and

unplemished and have, you know, proportions that don't make sense together, right?

You should, and there's so much pressure on it, but then of course the minute that a woman cares about her appearance she's vain and shallow right and it's such a mind-fuck and I think it makes it hard for women to even acknowledge how much they are obsessing and fixated about their weight and their looks and their relationship to their body because nobody, it's sort of like uncool now to admit it, right? Like everybody wants to be body positive.

Nobody wants to be that woman who thinks she should be thin. But it's still so ingrained,

right? And the truth is, it's like the opposite of trivial. That's what has been really landing for me so

powerfully as I have been creating this course and kind of creating all of these new

tools and advanced materials and like thinking about why this work is so

important right it's the opposite of trivial it's the opposite of shallow the amount

of time that women spend thinking about their cellulite and their wrinkles and their gray hair and

their whatever right and the truth is of course that like women who have none of those

things hate their bodies too it It's never about the thing.

You can always find something.

But it's just the amount of time that women spend thinking about

their weight and their exercise and what they ate,

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