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, how are you all? I have just had an amazing weekend

recording this on a Monday. I have been really trying to intentionally create my

weekends to include all the things I want, which are like lazy time, culture time, friend time, date time, and it's been a really nice balance so far.

I highly recommend deciding on purpose what you want your weekends to look like and then scheduling those things rather than just kind of letting your time happen to you.

I teach this all the time of course, but I think sometimes we think like I scheduled my week so now my

weekend is my free time but if you schedule things in your free time it

actually feels like you have more time and you enjoy it more.

It's kind of like a room looks smaller before you put furniture in it.

So one of the things that was interesting for me about this weekend was that at the same time

that I was having this lovely kind of weekend that I had created for myself

I also was feeling some low-level anxiety on and off for most of to which is unusual for me these days.

My brain had some things that was working through

and I just was not able to coach myself

to a new thought that felt better yet.

So I just allowed the anxiety to come along for the ride. And it reminded me of what an important

lesson this is and so that is actually what I want to teach you guys today. And this podcast is a little bit on the shorter side, but I recommend you

listen to it like maybe 1700 times. It's so important and it's honestly like we have to

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