477. Coaching Hotline: How to Deal with Fatigue & Which Thoughts to Work on First
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel completely exhausted but can’t quite figure out if it’s because your body is physically tired or if it’s the thoughts in your head making everything worse? In this week's Coaching Hotline episode, I dive into the complex relationship between physical fatigue and mental thoughts, and how you can shift your thinking no matter how tired you are.
Then, I dive into a question that comes up often in coaching: Should you focus on the immediate thoughts that are triggering your feelings or dig into the deeper, root cause of your beliefs? Tune in to hear my answer.
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The Future Coach: How to Succeed as a Life Coach Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond is finally here. Every other week, you'll hear practical advice about becoming a coach, improving your coaching skills, and antidotes to the most common concerns, questions, and brain drama that come up with this work, whether you're just starting out or you're years into your career. If you want to find out more, you can find it anywhere you listen to podcasts and hit that follow button.
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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. |
| 0:48.2 | 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. |
| 0:55.5 | All right, first question. I've enjoyed your podcast so far. It's really opened my eyes to the |
| 1:00.9 | influence I have over my life, which is scary and empowering all at the same time. |
| 1:06.2 | My question is about burnout at work. I work for a small company, often there are long hours and a few times |
| 1:12.3 | of really late night work up until 2 a.m., up again at 6 a.m., for example. I conceptually |
| 1:18.0 | understand that my thoughts impact my feelings of burnout, but is it possible the physical feelings |
| 1:22.6 | of burnout? Fatigue, fuzzy brain loss of focus can influence my thoughts too, question mark, |
| 1:27.4 | or my thoughts really causing these feelings of fatigue, even if I of focus can influence my thoughts too, question mark, are my thoughts |
| 1:27.8 | really causing these feelings of fatigue, even if I quote unquote overwork my body? Thanks. |
| 1:33.3 | Okay, so this is a great question. And one of the reasons I wanted to answer it is that |
| 1:37.2 | regardless of calling this burnout, which is almost a separate issue, I get a lot of questions about, |
| 1:43.1 | well, what about fatigue? |
| 1:44.5 | What about when I haven't had enough sleep? Like, isn't that really causing my mood or my feelings? |
| 1:49.7 | It's so interesting, right? So, like, number one, it's interesting to think about why do we want it to be |
| 1:54.7 | true that being tired is causing our feelings? Often I get asked this in the form of, yeah, |
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