497. Coaching Hotline: Managing Your Mind During PMS & Is Disappointment a Cop-Out?
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Managing your mind during PMS can feel impossible, even when you know thought work and self-coaching strategies. In this episode, I answer a listener question about how hormonal changes or cyclical patterns affect emotional resilience. I also tackle a question about disappointment and whether feeling let down is a cop-out.
As you’ll hear, managing your thoughts and feelings intentionally can change how you respond to difficult moments, from PMS to social or personal setbacks. This episode shows you how to separate physical or situational challenges from the stories your mind tells you about them, helping you stay grounded and in control of how you experience your life.
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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, I think a lot of |
| 0:56.9 | you probably have, and it's about PMS. Hi, Kara, I wanted to know your thoughts about PMS. I understand |
| 1:03.8 | that most of the stigmas around PMS come from the patriarchy, but I do find it harder to manage my |
| 1:08.9 | mind during my time of the month. I am usually more irritable, |
| 1:12.5 | overly sensitive, short-tempered, and overall less emotionally resilient. Even when I know I'm |
| 1:17.8 | about to start my period and trying to bring awareness to my overload of emotions during that time, |
| 1:22.2 | I still find it harder to manage my mind. Do you have any advice on how to think about this? I'm |
| 1:26.9 | confused about whether this is normal or if it's all in my head. All right, any advice on how to think about this? I'm confused about whether this is |
| 1:27.9 | normal or if it's all in my head. All right. So I think there's a great question. And I think this |
| 1:32.8 | question applies to more than PMS because really what it applies to is any time that we think |
| 1:37.9 | that some other biological system in our body might be impacting how we think and feel or our emotions or our emotional resilience. |
| 1:46.3 | So like it might be PMS, it might be menopause, it might be depression, it might be anything else, right? |
| 1:51.8 | And those aren't obviously all the same thing, but just other hormonal systems or some people find |
| 1:56.7 | that they're more irritable when they're hungry, right? Like their blood sugar changing has an impact on how |
| 2:01.1 | they feel. So here's what I think about this. I think that ultimately, it's hard for us to know if we don't |
| 2:07.7 | have some kind of actual diagnosis, what is actually biological in some way or hormonal or blood sugar |
| 2:15.1 | related or chemical imbalance or right, whatever. It's hard for us to know |
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