403. Coaching Hotline: Struggle Bus & Job Confusion
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this weeks Coaching Hotline episode, I’m answering two listener questions that tackle different sides of mental resistance. The first deals with whether you should do thought work when you're struggling emotionally—what I call being on the "struggle bus." The second addresses the challenge of sticking with decisions when your brain constantly wants to chase the next exciting thing. You'll hear some strategies to help you build commitment, even when you’re not feeling motivated, and learn why processing emotions should come before trying to change your thoughts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to unfuck your brain. I'm your host Kara Lowentile, 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, and create a life on your own terms, one that you're truly excited to live. |
| 0:21.3 | Let's go. |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome to this week's coaching hotline episode where I answer real questions from real listeners |
| 0:31.2 | and coach you from afar. |
| 0:33.6 | If you want to submit your question for consideration, go to unfuck your brain.com forward slash |
| 0:39.5 | coaching hotline, all one word, or text your email to plus one 347-997-1784. |
| 0:48.0 | And when you get prompted for the code word, it's coaching hotline, all one word. |
| 0:52.6 | Let's get into this week's questions. |
| 0:55.9 | So here is the first question. Do you recommend doing thought work while on the struggle |
| 1:01.4 | bus? I wonder if thought work can prevent me from making the ride longer than necessary. |
| 1:06.6 | For example, when I'm on the struggle bus, it feels like this weird indulgence to me. |
| 1:10.9 | Like when I'm having the worst headache on a busy day at work, I usually find myself too |
| 1:14.7 | miserable to take a painkiller that's literally on my desk. |
| 1:18.5 | Meanwhile, I usually find it more effective to think things through when I'm not on an emotional |
| 1:22.4 | roller coaster, so the next ride is slightly better. |
| 1:25.1 | Is there something in between? |
| 1:27.2 | But the way that this question is |
| 1:28.6 | phrased, I'm not exactly sure why you think these are two things on either end, but let me just |
| 1:34.5 | answer it this way. You can totally try to do thought work while you're on the struggle bus. |
| 1:39.1 | The point of the struggle bus is that when you are resisting being on the struggle bus, none of your thought |
| 1:44.9 | work is going to work. Right. So the reason I recorded that episode and I use that metaphor is that |
| 1:49.9 | what happens is when we're struggling, like when a negative emotion is persisting or a negative |
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