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 chickens, happy 2019. How crazy is that? It's a new year. And with a new year

comes a lot of new possibilities, right?

And I think what a lot of us do is we set unrealistic goals and expectations for ourselves,

and then we pretty much give up on them immediately or like three weeks in, right?

So that's part of why I picked this topic for today, this topic of kind of self-care, and before I kind of

get into the meat of self-care, I want to sort of talk a little bit about how I came to it and why.

And one of my goals for 2019

is really having more clear differentiation

between when I'm working and when I am not working.

And I've been thinking a lot lately about the difference between

working in concentrated bursts and then taking time off versus sort of half working and half relaxing all the time

right mixing those categories together I think that entrepreneurs especially but also just other people who have

jobs where you always could be working or doing more like when you do kind of

intellectual labor that you take home with you.

I was certainly as was true as an academic and a lot of jobs these days.

And especially if you can or you do work from home, if you're in any of those categories, people tend to have a lot of trouble in really

creating clear distinctions between work time and not work time.

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