You know how terrible it feels when you have an overwhelming negative emotion,

like you feel hopelessly sad or deeply ashamed or unbearably anxious?

What if I told you that you actually have no idea what sadness, shame, or anxiety truly feel like.

Because your brain has been warping those emotions and dialing them up in a wholly unnecessary way that you can actually reverse.

In this episode I'm going to explain why and how that happens and how to turn the dial back

down on your negative emotions so they become perfectly

tolerable or even sometimes disappear.

Welcome to Unfuck your brain. I'm your host Kara Loyenthyle, master certified coach, and founder of the School of New Feminist Thoth.

I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life on your own terms, one that you're truly

excited to live.

Let's go.

Welcome back to Feminist Mindset principles, episode 5.

Last episode we talked about where your thoughts come from and why it may not even really matter if they are true.

The recap is that for a lot of what we think we can never

fully prove it's true beyond any logical doubt which means that your brain will

just spin and spin and spin and spin with it. And whether something is true or not is often less important and whether it's a

it's a helpful thought,

whether it's a helpful thought, whether it produces a feeling and an action in your life that you want.

So today we're going to dive deep into feelings, but if you haven't

listened to the last episode, it is really, really important. Please go back and do that because

what I'm saying in this episode will sink in much better if you've opened your mind to what I said in the last one.

If you remember in the episode on the three baseline assumptions of feminist thought work that was one of the earlier episodes in this series

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