150. Compromising: How and When
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Women are socialized to compromise our needs and happiness behind the needs of family, friends, even strangers. At the same time, we’ve also experienced situations where compromise is helpful and growth-promoting. In this podcast episode, you will learn a few simple questions to ask yourself so that you will always know when to compromise and when to stand firm.
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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. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello my chickens, how are you? I for one cannot believe that summer is over. It is |
| 0:39.2 | dark at 8 p.m. unacceptable. I don't understand what happened. I feel like I went through a wormhole. |
| 0:47.0 | Like May was a thousand years long and now it's almost September. It is September. |
| 0:52.0 | It is September. This is a side story, but related. |
| 0:56.0 | So I used to do this kind of tantric-based meditation practice. I studied with this teacher named Sally Kton for a bit. Not studied with her like she knew me personally, but I went to her workshops and her teachings, you know, I talked to her a few times. So anyway, it was out of workshop she was doing in California and I had this super intense experience where I basically felt like everything in my body, all the energy rushed together and contracted inwards to this pinpoint and then |
| 1:27.8 | it exploded and I felt like infinite space inside of me. |
| 1:31.7 | It was really, really fucking wild. So I went up to talk to her about it afterwards. |
| 1:36.3 | You know, I'm like in the receiving line, everybody is telling her about their meditation and she's just like, you know, moving us along. |
| 1:41.8 | And I was like, oh my God, this like, this wild thing happened. |
| 1:46.6 | It blew my mind, blah, blah, blah, I'm like describing it to her. |
| 1:49.4 | Like, and she just casually said, oh yeah, you went through the wormhole. |
| 1:53.4 | Like this was just like, this was just like a known thing like no big deal, like |
| 1:58.8 | oh yeah the wormhole. |
| 2:00.3 | So I just, there's so many different ways of experiencing being a human in this world really blows my mind |
| 2:07.0 | And I think it's always a reminder to me also of how many incredible tools there are for navigating the human experience. |
| 2:15.0 | They're like obviously thought work is my favorite but it's not the only thing in the world and I don't ever want to be dogmatic about it right I think as humans |
| 2:24.0 | we want to be right and we want to be certain and we want to know the answer but |
| 2:29.3 | that's what makes us mentally rigid right I talk about this in the mental flexibility episode. We can get rigid |
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