Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain

and get what you want in life.

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

Kara Loyenthyle.

Hello, my chickens, how are you?

I'm feeling pretty good. My brain is tired, but I've been on the road for about 10 days and my body was very confused and didn't really want to sleep and so my sleep schedule was

all wacky and it was actually super interesting because I love to find places

in my life where I noticed that like one version of something I have so many thoughts

about and then another version of something I'm totally chill about and to see

that contrast is always so helpful for me because it just like shows me how

optional my thoughts are. So I've talked to the podcast before about having you

know chronic pain and doing thought work around chronic pain and I've come a long way in my

thoughts and around chronic pain stuff but I still do tend to have a more kind of

fraught relationship with those symptoms,

let's say, where I've had to really train myself

to like not jump straight to trying to fix things,

not, you know, regard symptoms as a problem,

to take down the like fear and stress response in response

to pain symptoms so it's like that's something I sort of actively work on. Let me just say in

advance no need to DM me with your thoughts about whatever. I'm about to say I have my own, you know,

medical care providers, I consult as needed. So my sleep has been very wonky for like the last few weeks and it's been tied to some also some physical like movement stuff I've been doing and so some of it has been like sore muscles

some of it has potentially been you know having been sick been sick, that I was traveling, that I was

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