286. Grief At Lives Not Lived
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Is there an alternate version of your life that you fantasized about having, that you didn’t get to experience? When we don’t let ourselves grieve or acknowledge those fantasies that we left behind, it can sometimes cause us to get stuck or be unable to make decisions and move forward in our lives. Tune in to this week’s episode to find out what I mean by grieving a life you won’t live, how to do it, and why feeling regret doesn’t mean you made the wrong decision.
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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, how are you? |
| 0:31.0 | I just got back from a trip to Europe which was awesome if you listen to the |
| 0:35.5 | podcast you know that we were in Morocco and February and that the entire trip |
| 0:39.9 | my nervous system was just in like intense fright or flight. So it was nice to have a trip where I actually relaxed and I had fun. |
| 0:47.5 | And the gentleman concert and I went to Madrid first and one of my favorite things when I travel is just to like |
| 0:56.2 | see how different people's thoughts are in different places and sometimes it's so funny |
| 1:01.0 | so we had a great tour of the Prado Museum and we had |
| 1:05.3 | an amazing guide she's an art historian she's super knowledgeable is really |
| 1:08.6 | interesting but as we were going through we had like two hours to do the tour because I can take about two hours of art lecture and like that I'm done. |
| 1:16.0 | We're kind of going through the museum and she's taking us chronologically and you know like 90 minutes and I start to kind of be thinking like how are you |
| 1:24.4 | like we're only in like the 1600s right now like how are we gonna wrap this up in |
| 1:29.0 | time like what are we just gonna be here for hours like what's happening? |
| 1:33.6 | And then she like speed walked us through a hundred to 200 years of art history |
| 1:39.6 | because according to her it had happened under the Bourbon Kings which is a French |
| 1:45.2 | dynasty and so she felt it was not important. It was like her thought about |
| 1:50.0 | the art history of Spain was all this stuff is important until the French kings come |
| 1:55.0 | then it's boring court art and who cares and now we'll go to Goya. But I mean if you went to |
| 1:59.4 | France you'd be hearing all about how incredible that period of artwork was, right? |
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