200. Greatest Hits Vol. 10 Vulnerability and Intimacy
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Even if you’re not a Brené Brown fan, you probably think that vulnerability is a powerful way to build intimacy in a relationship. But did you know vulnerability is even MORE powerful when you use it to strengthen your relationship with yourself? Learn how in this greatest hits episode.
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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. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello, my chickens, how are we all doing? I have lost all sense of time here in 2021. Is it August? Is it September? Is it March? Is it actually |
| 0:40.8 | 2023? I really have no idea. I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:45.0 | One of the reasons that I have sort of lost all track of time is that I have been spending quite a lot of time |
| 0:52.0 | time working through all the things that have come up for me |
| 0:56.8 | as I have been deepening and sort of solidifying, although that's a weird word to use for an emotion, |
| 1:03.4 | one of the most important relationships in my life, |
| 1:06.4 | and I have been working through a lot of what comes up around becoming intimate with a new person, learning how to navigate |
| 1:16.3 | conflicts, learning how to be vulnerable, but all while keeping responsibility for managing our minds. |
| 1:24.0 | And it just made me think quite a lot about this episode that I had recorded a couple of years ago that I want to share again with you here. |
| 1:31.0 | All about vulnerability and intimacy because I think |
| 1:35.5 | that these are topics that are kind of huge in the self-help, self-development |
| 1:40.1 | world for reasons that makes sense but they're often framed in a kind of |
| 1:44.1 | disempowering way like vulnerability is giving somebody else the power to hurt you and |
| 1:48.8 | to cause negative feelings in you. But of course we don't believe that here at Unfuck Your Brain World. We don't believe that other people cause your feelings. |
| 1:57.0 | And at the same time intimacy is often conceptualized as sort of sharing your wounds with someone, giving them the power to hurt you or sharing all the terrible things that you think have happened to you. |
| 2:11.0 | Like there's just this sort of sense often with vulnerability and |
| 2:14.3 | intimacy that it's about like sharing your wounded parts and trusting someone not |
| 2:19.1 | to stick a knife in them and I don't personally find that in empowering understanding of vulnerability and intimacy. |
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