248. Thick Thighs Save Lives

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

Kara Loewentheil

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

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Twice a week I lift weights with a trainer. This way of moving, yes, strengthens my body, but it has also done wonders for strengthening my brain. So what is the connection between mind and body? And how do we unravel the internalized messages we receive about our bodies to find where true confidence really comes from?

In this special release podcast episode, you will listen to an interview that I did on the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast to learn practical tips on how to grow authentic confidence (no actual weightlifting required!).

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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	So it may surprise some of you to know that I lift weights with a trainer twice a week.
0:35.6	I don't know why that would surprise you, but it just doesn't seem completely in keeping
0:38.9	with my persona, which mostly involves talking about how I hate getting sweaty and or ever being hot and like to take a lot of naps.
0:49.0	But I also lived weights. And I have to say I have learned so much about my brain and my nervous system from lifting.
0:58.0	And lifting has also really given me a way to think about how my brain works and how new neural patterns form and the ways in which
1:09.5	you know the body and the mind can work similarly.
1:12.8	You know, I think sometimes thought work is understood
1:15.2	as being entirely cognitive,
1:16.6	which is not really the case,
1:17.6	even though it's called thought work.
1:19.2	At least not the way that we teach and practice it around here
1:21.5	it really is about the mind body experience taken together.
1:25.4	And the way that we physically can train and change our bodies and our strength and build new patterns in our brain that sort of
1:37.0	of control our muscles tells us a lot about how our brains work to and how our thought
1:41.1	patterns work too.
1:42.9	And so I'm really excited to share with you this actually a pretty incredible conversation
1:46.8	I had on the Thick Thies Save Lives Podcast, which I will admit is not a podcast that I knew a lot about before I was invited to come speak on it.
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