33. Gratitude

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

Kara Loewentheil

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

4.6 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

I often see many of my clients trying to use a gratitude practice against themselves in a way that can be quite harmful to their mental health. In this episode, I want to talk to you about how to tell if you’re misusing gratitude or maybe even using it as a weapon against yourself. Join me to discover what you can do to stop feeling sorry for yourself and start thinking about gratitude in a way that serves you.

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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.
0:20.3	Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,
0:24.7	Kara Lowenthile.
0:25.9	Chickens, my chickens. How are you guys? So I'm back home now for a few days at least and I was kind of bracing myself for hot, humid, summer, New York City, right? It's been like 50 degrees and raining all week.
0:46.9	So so much for summer in the city. I was just thinking about how I have all this travel planned
0:52.2	this summer and it's so fun to think that I might be
0:55.4	walking down a street in a random city somewhere and I might pass by one of you without even
1:00.0	knowing it. Like maybe that's already happened. Maybe we've walked by each other. We didn't even know it. I'm also going to be going to a
1:07.1	podcasting conference so hopefully I will come back from that with lots of good ideas to make this podcast even more awesome. So while I was
1:16.0	looking at my calendar thinking about all these things I'm going to be doing and I
1:19.4	just started thinking about how amazing it is that I have created this life for myself where I can take off and travel,
1:25.9	wherever I want, apart from my 15-year-old cat who needs someone to hang out with him,
1:30.5	and I can do my job from anywhere. He doesn't like to travel, you know, within reason on the time zones. And anyway, all of that I was just feeling so kind of filled up with gratitude and it got me really thinking about gratitude because this is an emotion
1:45.3	that I have kind of complex thoughts and feelings about. You know I think that gratitude is really
1:51.4	hip these days and a kind of self-help empowerment idea
1:55.0	way like everyone on Instagram has a gratitude journal from what I can tell and
2:01.0	there are lots of great reasons to cultivate gratitude for sure.
2:05.0	But I also see my clients trying to use a gratitude practice against themselves
2:11.0	in a way that isn't helpful and can actually be kind of harmful. I see
2:15.2	though my clients and I saw also when I was training some baby coaches
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