211. When Self-Development Feels Terrible: A Radical Awakening with Dr. Shefali
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever set out on a journey of self-love only to find that the path wasn’t as easy or straightforward as you thought?
In this week’s episode, I talk to clinical psychologist Dr. Shefali Tsabary about how to have a radical awakening (which happens to be the title of her newest book) that leads to uncovering the beliefs and patterns that you have today, so that you can move them out of your way on your journey to loving yourself.
Tune in to find out why radical self-awareness without compassion for yourself is not *real* self-awareness, and how you can have a radical awakening of your own.
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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. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm sure some of you have seen this, |
| 0:31.6 | but one of my favorite kind of, I don't even know if it's a meme but like |
| 0:35.2 | Instagram images that goes around often is this sort of text drawing from I think Emily McDowell's her name |
| 0:42.1 | but it basically says like we call it |
| 0:45.4 | self-development because if we called it like you're gonna feel like you're dying |
| 0:51.1 | all the time nobody would do it. |
| 0:53.4 | And that is how it feels sometimes. |
| 0:55.1 | Sometimes it just really feels like you are the sort of experience of like |
| 1:01.1 | confronting your own hurt parts and wounds and traumas and also your ego and your |
| 1:09.6 | more primitive instincts and your dysfunction, |
| 1:14.0 | all of those things, while also learning to love yourself |
| 1:18.0 | as perfectly imperfect and still deserving of compassion |
| 1:22.0 | and care and support no matter what is going on in your brain, it's a lot. |
| 1:26.4 | It is not a joke and it often feels like dying. |
| 1:29.4 | But I've just been thinking about how honestly the main thing that is important is just |
| 1:35.2 | continuing to be committed to that process. I was having a conversation with |
| 1:40.3 | somebody and they were like you know it's like very admirable but kind of |
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