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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

213. When You Don’t Know What the F*ck Is Going On With Your Brain

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Education, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Coaching is like magic when you’ve identified a “problem” and want help creating something new in your life. But what about the times that you genuinely, truly, cannot figure out what the fuck is going on with your brain? When you’re feeling angry, sad, or lost and you can’t pinpoint why for weeks or months or even years at a time?

Tune in to this week’s podcast to learn how to hold space for yourself even when you don’t understand what’s happening in your brain - and how to turn these experiences into an opportunity to strengthen your relationship with yourself.

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Transcript

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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.

0:28.1

So my chickens, here's what I want to talk to you about today.

0:31.3

I want to talk to you about what happens when you just cannot figure out what the

0:36.5

fuck is going on with yourself. This is an experience that I am having right now and normally I really try to have worked through things and process them and kind of

0:49.3

Extracted the learning and thought about how it would apply to everybody before I teach it.

0:55.0

But because what I want to teach right now is all about not having closure on something,

1:00.0

I actually think it's really valuable to talk to you about what I'm

1:03.6

experiencing right now. And so this episode is basically me talking about

1:09.0

what I'm experiencing with my own brain right now in a way that is not resolved.

1:16.2

Now who knows?

1:17.2

I might resolve it.

1:18.2

It might make sense in three hours, unpredictably, by the time the podcast comes out, or it may never make sense to me and that's okay too.

1:26.2

So the first thing to understand is that as you get deeper and deeper into thought work and as you

1:32.0

start to try to really access what's going on in

1:36.0

beyond the sort of first level stuff you know you learn about thought work your

1:40.0

mind's totally unmanaged you find thought, and you sort of are like,

1:44.0

holy shit, I could just change all these unhelpful thoughts, right?

1:47.6

So you sort of like learn to believe in yourself.

1:50.1

And you learn to have a better relationship with yourself by changing your thoughts first, right?

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