240. Burnout, Productivity, Parenthood & Patriarchy: A Conversation with Ali Ryan and Marissa McKool
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
People socialized as women are particularly susceptible to suffering from the burnout our entire country seems to be dealing with. That’s because they’re taught from an extremely young age that they have to take care of everyone else before they take care of themselves.
This week I’m joined by two of my Advanced Certification in Feminist Coaching students, Ali Ryan and Marissa McKool, as we look closely at how we define burnout and uncover the roles patriarchy and productivity play in it.
Tune in to learn how you can begin to heal your burnout by figuring out what your unconscious commitments are and by identifying thought patterns about your to-do list at home, and how changing your thoughts around rest (while it may feel terrible at first) can help you prevent future burnout.
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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 | All right, my friends, if you have been feeling |
| 0:31.4 | burnt the fuck out, then this is for you. So here's how to know if |
| 0:36.7 | you're feeling burnt out. Do you feel like you wake up in the morning and you |
| 0:41.6 | are already tired? Do you feel like you are at the edge of your rope and |
| 0:48.4 | about one small mishap away from completely losing your shit. |
| 0:53.2 | Spill the coffee and that's it you'd rather just lay down on the floor and die. |
| 0:58.0 | Am I right? |
| 1:00.0 | Do you feel like you are snapping at your goods and your partner or your parents or your |
| 1:04.8 | co-workers more than you mean to? You keep telling yourself that you'd like to stop doing that and |
| 1:10.5 | be better about it and feel nicer, but then the next minute there you are snapping again |
| 1:15.7 | you just don't have a lot of emotional energy you're overwhelmed you're exhausted you take a |
| 1:20.4 | vacation you still don't really feel any better, the weekend feels like it's over before it began, |
| 1:25.6 | and you feel like you didn't get anything done, but you also didn't rest. These are all signs of burnout. |
| 1:32.3 | So if you're feeling this way you are not alone, I feel like we are in a |
| 1:36.7 | global burnout right now. Between years of the pandemic, inflation, prices are rising, the global warming is continuing |
| 1:48.3 | to accelerate. |
| 1:49.6 | There's a war in Ukraine, and every time you turn on the news something else terrible seems to be happening and you're |
| 1:56.6 | tired and your kids have been in and out of school because of COVID and you've been working from |
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