Have you ever noticed that some opinions other people have about you just roll right off your brain,

like water off a duck's back for a mixed metaphor? And then some other opinions people have about

you feel maybe more like sticky taffy that you can't get off your brain once it gets stuck on there.

Sometimes these aren't even opinions you even know if someone actually holds. They're just opinions

you think

someone else might have or that you fear they have about you. So why does your brain care so

much about what other people think sometimes, but not others? It's not because you only worry

about the true opinions. I'll tell you that much. And it's not because of those people being

important to you or having power over you necessarily.

In this episode, I'm going to get into why our brain is sometimes fine with other people's opinions about us and sometimes fixated and obsessed with them. Let's get into it.

Welcome to unfuck your brain. I'm your host, Kara Lowentile, master certified coach and founder of the School of New Feminist Thub. I'm your host Kara Lowenthal, master certified coach and founder of the

School of New Feminist Thub. 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.

All right, my friends, I have to tell you the other day I was reading a graphic novel with my stepson,

and one of the characters said, what's kicking chickens?

And now I just want to open every episode that way.

I used to call my podcast listeners and my students chickens.

I've moved away from that, but what's kicking chickens? Okay, so here's what

kicking. Last week, we talked about why we care so much about what other people think about us.

We talked about while evolution does have something to do with it, women and other marginalized

people are taught to care disproportionately about other people's thoughts about us.

Much more than we care about what we think

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