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.

I know that the world is feeling particularly heavy to a lot of us right now.

There is so much suffering outside of us and inside of us, but I think it's in times like this

that thought work actually is the most important. If I've

said it once I've said it a million times, thought work is it's not frivolous,

it's not navel-gazing, it's not only for, you know, privilege people or only for when things are going well.

Actually, the deepest power of thought work is to help us stay centered and grounded

when challenging things are happening. Because we're not really any use to the rest of the world or ourselves when we are

discombobulated and thrown every which way by what's happening.

So I wanted to re-share the episode on Clean and Dirty Pain that comes from way way back in the podcast

archives this week

because I really think it gets to the heart of the dilemma

that a lot of us are dealing with,

which is how to be present with the suffering in the world and you know this month it might be

a war in the Middle East and earthquake and next week it might be something else and

the next week it might be something else and the next week it might be something else.

There's always suffering happening somewhere in the world.

There's always more pain than one human heart can bear somewhere in the world. Sometimes it's right up close to

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