You know how it kind of feels like everything is going wrong with the world at once right now?

Staying on top of the news is so stressful, but ignoring it doesn't seem like an option either.

It's exhausting and demoralizing. But I got you. This episode is going to help

you solve this conundrum and figure out how to stay informed and realistic without just bottoming out in despair. Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain, Feminist Self Help for Everyone.

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forward slash brain. Now let's get to today's episode. Hello my friends welcome back to this series on feminist self-help

foundations this is episode two Last week we talked about what we mean when we talk about feminist self-help and how to make sure that our self-help is getting us out from under patriarchy's thumb, not teaching us how to

conform to patriarchy better. Today I want to talk about what it means to engage in

quote-unquote self-help, which really remember is practical philosophy,

when the world is burning, T.M.

I live in this world with the rest of you and it can be very overwhelming.

There's war, there's the murder of innocent civilians, there's global warming, the oceans are getting hotter,

we have an election coming up between a centrist liberal and a

literal authoritarian, it can feel just overwhelming and scary and destabilizing to

even be minimally aware of what is going on.

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