394. Hopelessness Is a Lie
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt that sinking feeling in your stomach—the one that says, “There’s no point in trying because nothing will ever change”? That’s hopelessness, and it’s one of the most dangerous emotional states because it paralyzes us and keeps us stuck. It’s also one of the most deceptive thought patterns your brain can offer you.
This week, I’m breaking down why hopelessness is fundamentally a lie. When your brain tells you nothing will ever change, it’s making a claim it can’t possibly back up. Tune in to learn how to combat these thoughts and start embracing the reality that change is always possible—even when it feels like it isn’t.
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| 0:00.0 | If you've ever felt that sinking feeling in your stomach that feels like there's no point in |
| 0:04.9 | even trying or like there's no escape, then you've felt hopelessness. |
| 0:09.4 | Hopelessness is one of our most dangerous emotions in terms of the way it makes us behave |
| 0:13.8 | and the returns we get when we invest mental and emotional energy in that feeling. |
| 0:19.2 | But it's also one of the most misleading thought |
| 0:21.4 | patterns that we can have. I was recently coaching a friend of mine on this, and she's a master |
| 0:26.0 | coach herself, and she said that this coaching on hopelessness blew her mind and that she insisted |
| 0:32.8 | that I record a podcast about it immediately. So that's what we're going to get into today, |
| 0:37.4 | the lie of hopelessness, and how to respond when that's what your podcast about it immediately. So that's what we're going to get into today, |
| 0:41.8 | the lie of hopelessness and how to respond when that's what your brain is offering you. |
| 0:49.1 | Welcome to unfuck your brain. I'm your host Kara Lowenthal, master certified coach and founder of the School of New Feminist Thought. I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, |
| 0:56.0 | and create a life on your own terms, one that you're truly excited to live. Let's go. |
| 1:04.5 | All right, my friends, welcome to today's episode. We are going deep today. Given that we have |
| 1:09.9 | 394 episodes, this is episode 394, which is |
| 1:14.0 | also mind-blowing, I actually am surprised that I've never taught on this before. But the longer my |
| 1:19.3 | journey with thought work, the more I learn myself and the more I see when I coach others. |
| 1:24.4 | That's really the difference in working with a newly minted coach and with someone who's |
| 1:27.9 | been doing this for almost a decade and has worked with thousands of brains. You keep learning as you go. |
| 1:34.2 | So before I get into this episode, I want to specify that if you are experiencing hopelessness in a way that |
| 1:40.2 | feels harmful to your physical well-being, or you are experiencing a loss of interest in daily |
| 1:46.4 | activities of your life, or things that used to bring you pleasure no longer do. Basically, if you |
| 1:52.7 | are experiencing any signs of clinical depression, please go get evaluated. I always say that |
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