487. Coaching Hotline: Learning to Love Your Body & Navigating Unclear Expectations at Work
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Do you struggle to feel at peace with your body when you gain weight? Or worry that gaining weight will result in health issues? In this Coaching Hotline episode, I invite you to challenge the beliefs that weight is synonymous with health and that health is synonymous with morality (spoiler alert, it's not).
Then, I tackle a listener question about unclear work expectations and how that impacts their perceived success in the role. I show you how to step into clarity and confidence so you can take action on what matters most and stop feeling frustrated by things that are out of your control.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Un-Fuck 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, and create a life on your own terms, one that you're truly excited to live. Let's go. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome to this week's coaching hotline episode where I answer real questions from real |
| 0:30.4 | listeners and coach you from afar. If you want to submit your question for consideration, |
| 0:35.1 | go to unfuckyourbrain.com forward slash coaching hotline, |
| 0:40.1 | all one word, or text your email to plus one 347-997-1784. And when you get prompted for the code word, |
| 0:49.7 | it's coaching hotline, all one word. Let's get into this week's questions. First question is a short one, |
| 0:58.4 | but I think a lot of you struggle with. That's why I want to address it. So the question asker says, |
| 1:03.3 | I'm stuck in believing that my body is a human body. I've gained weight recently, and I'm having a |
| 1:08.7 | hard time loving myself and not making my weight gain |
| 1:11.6 | mean something about me. How can I learn to love my body when I keep thinking that my fat gained |
| 1:17.0 | is causing me health issues? Okay, so there's so many important assumptions embedded in this, |
| 1:23.3 | and it's such a common theme. So number one, just notice, let's think about this. If your brain had the |
| 1:28.9 | agenda that there's something wrong with your body, what would we expect? We would expect that, |
| 1:34.1 | let's say it focused on what you look like. And then if we removed that, it would then just focus on |
| 1:39.4 | your health or focus on the next thing, right? Your brain has an agenda that there's something wrong |
| 1:45.4 | with your body. That's a thought pattern you've had for so long. And we know that brains like to |
| 1:49.8 | double down. So if you start believing that it's okay for your body to look the way it does, |
| 1:55.0 | your brain just looks for something else to tell you is wrong with your body. So that's number one |
| 1:59.1 | is just noticing what the brain patterns are. |
| 2:02.0 | Number two, you've got health and weight all conflated here, which is common because we're not |
| 2:08.1 | taught the correct science about this. I really encourage any of you who think that weight and health |
| 2:13.1 | are synonymous to dive into the health at any size movement and read the real research on weight and |
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