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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

79. Attachment Styles and Personality Tests

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

There is a downside to categorizing ourselves by personality tests and attachment styles. Before we learn to manage our thoughts and choose them on purpose, having a diagnostic of those thoughts can have a detrimental effect on our belief in our ability to change. 

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0:00.0

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

0:16.3

and get what you want in life.

0:18.6

And now here's your host.

0:20.3

Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

0:24.7

Kara Loyenthyle.

0:27.8

Hello my chickens, is spring which in New York City just means it's raining all the time

0:37.8

We're also humid and cranky about it. You know because in the winter we want it to be spring and then it's spring and we're

0:44.4

mad at it which I just kind of love because this is what human brains do right we

0:50.0

think that when we get to this other place or we have this other thing we're

0:54.2

gonna have a totally different human experience right when I take that

0:58.2

vacation when I have that job when I get married when I get divorced then I'm just going to feel so amazing and then we get there

1:05.6

and we are still having the same old human experience of a mix of positive and negative emotion

1:11.8

and we're like that's weird the experiment didn't work right I guess I

1:15.7

better just repeat it exactly the same way right we just start to fix it on the

1:20.1

next thing so it's just so good to notice in myself that I wanted the weather

1:25.1

to be different and now it is and I don't feel any different. And then my brain

1:30.1

says oh no I meant different in a different way.

1:33.2

Right?

1:34.1

But no, tomorrow it'll be sunny.

1:35.8

I'm still gonna have a human brain.

1:38.3

So that's just my musings on the weather.

1:40.6

It's like our little elevator chat about the weather. That's not what we're talking about today. So today I'm going to be talking about two things I get asked about a lot and they may not seem obviously related, but I think they go together. And that is attachment styles and personality types or tests.

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