439. Coaching Hotline: Making Thoughts Conscious & How to Stop Being Overwhelmed
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Most of your thoughts are running on autopilot, shaping how you feel and act without you even realizing it. The good news is that you can learn to access those unconscious thoughts and bring them into your awareness, but only if you know how to look for them.
This week, I’m answering two questions that get right to the heart of this work: how to uncover hidden thought patterns and how to stop feeling overwhelmed when you want to change everything at once. You’ll learn the simplest daily practice for making your unconscious thoughts visible, why confusion is your brain’s favorite form of procrastination, and how to get out of the “I have too much to fix” mindset that keeps you stuck.
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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. So the first question is, |
| 0:59.0 | since 95% of our thoughts are unconscious, how besides meditation, which is long term, does one |
| 1:06.5 | access and change the programming that started at seven or earlier. Okay, so I just love brains, |
| 1:12.3 | because even in this question like, why is it seven years old, right, where we're starting? |
| 1:17.9 | Why are we believing that we can't access the thoughts from seven years old versus 10 or versus |
| 1:22.8 | four? So it's true that most of our thoughts are unconscious, but the whole reason that we do thought downloads is that we bring our unconscious thoughts into consciousness. |
| 1:34.8 | Right. So I don't think it's useful to think of unconscious as it's not like the bottom of the ocean that we can't see or something, right? |
| 1:42.0 | Like there's no way to get down there. I think unconscious just means that the thoughts are running, |
| 1:46.8 | but we aren't paying attention to them with our awareness, right? |
| 1:50.4 | A lot of what we're doing with thought work is we are using the part of our brain |
| 1:54.1 | that can observe our own thinking to pay attention to it. |
| 1:58.4 | We bring awareness to different parts of our minds or our bodies. |
| 2:02.8 | And so when we are trying to access our unconscious thoughts, we're just bringing awareness to them. |
| 2:08.6 | So I would think of it more as like, you know, how if you're focused on something, you can often |
| 2:14.0 | not hear background noise anymore, right? Like music could be playing and you could hear the |
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