Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain

and get what you want in life.

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

Kara Loyenthyle.

Hello, my little hens.

I decided I should address you guys

by a different animal kingdom group each time.

So we're going with poultry for Thanksgiving.

All right, so before we get started today, I just want to tell you guys, I went through a kind of unexpected

personal loss over this weekend and not going to bore any of you with the details because this is about changing your thoughts, not mine.

But I do want to talk about it a little bit with you guys before I get to my planned content because coaching

yourself on a day-to-day basis

it definitely produces results, right?

It decreases procrastination.

It decreases stress and anxiety.

It increases your ability to connect to other people.

It decreases your dating anxiety, it improves your body image,

like it does a million amazing things I talk about all the time.

But honestly, the times that I really find that coaching has sort of prepared me the most and in a way that blows my mind is when something unexpected does happen.

Because before I knew how to coach myself, when something unexpected happened, I just would lose my shit.

Right? Like, in different ways, but my brain would be running crazy all over the place and my thoughts would be like in a huge

swirl and my emotions would be all over the place and I would feel super overwhelmed and I would just feel like

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