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.

Welcome, welcome back for the second installment of how to stop criticizing everyone and

everything. So if you didn't listen to the last episode, go listen to that. That is

where I break down really what I'm talking about with

criticism like how we define that and I go over a couple of like four major

factors in our brains being trained to criticize and then I also talk about

some of the different motivations we have for expressing that criticism.

And so in this episode I really want to talk about what we can do to change it.

And I want to preface this by saying like I've been working on this for a while and it's still a work in progress for me.

And it might be a work in progress for my whole life and

that's okay. And this is like a little bit of a side note but it kind of feels

important especially because so many people listen to this podcast and the vast majority of you are not coaches or teachers or therapists or people who do some of this work for a living but some of you are and

especially in the coaching world I feel like there's this thing that it goes like in and out of fashion to take like this bold stance about how, you know, you should never try to teach your coach on something that you haven't fully resolved and moved on from as if it's like unethical to do that

if you are still figuring it out. And I just call bullshit on that for so many reasons.

Like, number one, first of all, I don't give a shit, what you want you're an adult like I just I just feel like

there's like in any profession there's like a group of people who spend all of their time

like critiquing how other people do the profession.

And there's a place for critique, like critical thinking is a useful skill, but I think the people

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