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

310. Six Reasons Your Self-Coaching Isn’t Sticking - And How to Solve Them

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

Kara Loewentheil

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

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

No matter how long you’ve been coaching yourself, it’s normal to have blocks and challenges come up. If you’ve been self-coaching and just not seeing the results you want, there are a few specific reasons that may be holding you back. Tune in as I share with you the six primary blocks to self-coaching and find out why we really have to see circumstances as neutral, why we need to dig deep in our thought work practice, what role shame plays in thought work, and why insight alone isn’t going to change your brain.

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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?

0:31.1

I am finally home after summer of traveling constantly and it feels really good to be home for a minute.

0:38.0

Although it also feels really loud in New York City right now.

0:43.0

They're doing construction in front of our building.

0:46.0

They're doing construction in front of my office.

0:49.0

They're doing construction on the building my office is in.

0:51.7

I feel like I am being chased around by Jackhammers, but it's also the two weeks in fall in New York City where it's glorious and you decide that the rents and the rats are all totally worth it.

1:02.2

So, you know, I all totally worth it.

1:03.0

So, you know, I'm just enjoying the ride.

1:06.0

But now that I'm back and kind of settled for fall,

1:09.0

I'm really focusing on how to help my students,

1:12.0

especially my students in the clutch, get the transformations that they want,

1:15.7

like the transformations they came into the clutch to create.

1:18.8

And so I've been thinking a lot about what the biggest challenges are in learning to coach yourself.

1:24.0

Learning to coach yourself is the secret to life, it is the skill that makes anything else

1:29.9

in your life possible. I think it's in some ways like almost as transformative as learning to read or write.

1:36.6

It's like learning how to read your own mind or write your own thoughts and learning how

1:40.7

the world works and understanding why things are happening the way they are,

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