252. Don’t Fetishize the Burps of Your Subconscious
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
I get a lot of questions from people who are new to thought work that have to do with gaslighting themselves. It’s a totally normal concern and one that I’ve talked about many times on the podcast. But here’s why it’s so interesting. It comes from the assumption that your original unconscious thoughts are better or carry more importance simply because it is your original subconscious thought. Why are we giving more importance to the first thing our brains spit out than the thoughts we intentionally cultivate ourselves?
Listen to this week’s podcast episode to learn why our original thoughts aren’t necessarily our most helpful thoughts and how the most real or ‘you’ thoughts can be the ones you choose intentionally.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/252
Mentioned in this episode:
WE'RE HIRING
Go to unfuckyourbrain.com/hiring to learn more about these positions and to apply.
The Future Coach Podcast is Here!
The Future Coach: How to Succeed as a Life Coach Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond is finally here. Every other week, you'll hear practical advice about becoming a coach, improving your coaching skills, and antidotes to the most common concerns, questions, and brain drama that come up with this work, whether you're just starting out or you're years into your career. If you want to find out more, you can find it anywhere you listen to podcasts and hit that follow button.
The Future Coach Podcast is Here!
The Future Coach: How to Succeed as a Life Coach Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond is finally here. Every other week, you'll hear practical advice about becoming a coach, improving your coaching skills, and antidotes to the most common concerns, questions, and brain drama that come up with this work, whether you're just starting out or you're years into your career. If you want to find out more, you can find it anywhere you listen to podcasts and hit that follow button.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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 you? |
| 0:31.4 | I just got back from 10 days in Italy and I took the gentleman consort on a luxury |
| 0:38.4 | door. It was really an incredible trip in so many ways like we stayed in these incredibly |
| 0:45.2 | beautiful places we stayed at this hotel that was in a 10th century castle |
| 0:51.4 | we stay in hotel that was in like a 14th century monastery and a palazzo in Venice. |
| 0:57.6 | It's incredibly, just beautiful surroundings. We saw incredible art, we ate delicious meals, it was amazing. |
| 1:05.0 | And also, we were still humans. |
| 1:08.0 | I got stressed out when I was hungry. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't like being hot and we were there in a heat wave. I was sometimes annoyed with myself, sometimes |
| 1:19.2 | annoyed with my partner, right? I was in love with all the things about the gentleman concert and myself that I'm always in love with and then I was annoyed by all the things that I'm always annoyed about that my brain creates annoyance over right because even a luxury vacation to Italy is not an exit |
| 1:34.2 | ramp from the human experience. And I was also going through a grieving process on the |
| 1:39.8 | trip because a few hours before the trip I had to put my cat of 20 years, Darwin, to sleep. |
| 1:46.9 | He had a very good long run and had just kind of come to the end. |
| 1:51.3 | But all of that timing was kind of insane. |
| 1:53.7 | So I spent, you know, I flew first class to Italy |
| 1:56.7 | and I spent the flight crying, because I just had to put down my cat. |
| 2:00.7 | Really, when I tell you that life is 50-50, life is fucking 50-50. |
| 2:05.0 | So that's what I got. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kara Loewentheil, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Kara Loewentheil and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.