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. Today we are answering some more chicken questions you guys are

asking, there's such like thought-provoking interesting great questions that I just

can't stop answering them.

All right, I'll just dive in.

So here's this question which I get in a lot of different ways,

but I'm just going to read this one in particular,

but a lot of you have this question,

so I think it'll be useful.

Dear Kara, I love your podcast I've been showing it widely, thank you.

One question that I'm grappling with is how do you reconcile individual responsibility for one's own happiness with systemic oppression?

Things like unequal access to health care, mass incarceration, the child separation policy, income inequality,

while it's true in some sense that everyone is responsible

for their own mindset, aren't there things outside an individual's control that influence our

well-being? And don't we have a collective responsibility to address those things instead of just focusing on ourselves.

I feel like I am missing something important.

This is a great question and I do think you're missing something important, which is a good sign.

It's a good thing. So number one, if you haven't, go listen to the

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