161. Anticipatory Stress (Insomnia, Public Speaking, etc.)
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
If you have insomnia, do you spend so much energy dreading the possibility of waking up at night that you literally can’t fall asleep? This is a perfect example of anticipatory stress, the stress we feel in anticipation of anything we label “bad.” It’s also the main source of our suffering in any situation we dread. Tune in to learn four simple steps you can take to feel calmer even if what you fear comes to pass.
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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. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello my chickens, how are we all doing? I am recording this from inside a closet. |
| 0:41.5 | My podcast producers dreams have finally come true. I have moved into an apartment and has a closet that's big enough for me to sit in it and record my podcast. |
| 0:51.0 | I was constantly telling him that that couldn't be done in my old apartment, which it couldn't because there was no closet that a person could possibly fit into. |
| 1:00.0 | All right, how are we all doing? |
| 1:03.0 | I'm actually recording this while the election results are still being tallied |
| 1:08.0 | and we're all getting an education in living with uncertainty right now. |
| 1:12.0 | This has been kind of a |
| 1:14.8 | fascinating cycle for me because this time four years ago I was in so much pain |
| 1:19.6 | over the election results and this year felt really different and not because I don't |
| 1:25.2 | care or didn't care about what happened right I voted obviously I donated money |
| 1:30.0 | I used my platform to encourage voting and participation. I spent so much time |
| 1:35.2 | coaching and teaching and providing free resources and to empower my students and my |
| 1:40.8 | listeners to participate in their local efforts and in the national efforts, right? |
| 1:45.2 | I obviously have a preference about who wins or who won, right? |
| 1:48.7 | My politics are not a secret. |
| 1:51.5 | But my emotions are not tied up in it in the same way. And you know I think the easy answer or what we think is the easy answer is always to say that if somebody isn't emotionally invested or emotionally debilitated by the news or |
| 2:06.0 | something in current events of the world it's because they're privileged right |
| 2:08.8 | it means their privilege is showing and I'm not saying that it's never the case, of course, like your life circumstances impact the way that you think about the world and sometimes you do need to hear other points of view or other ideas you haven't heard before, course right but part of the problem with |
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