Welcome to Unfucked 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? So I am having some kind of problem

understanding that it is almost the summer solstice. You would not know it in New York, it's rainy today.

But like in general, I'm confused that the longest day of the year is around the corner, I feel like it was just winter.

I don't know if the rest of you feel like this too, but I find it very confusing that

June 21st is the longest day of the year because it feels like summer is just starting

and suddenly now it's already going to be getting darker going forward.

But I was thinking about it today when I was complaining in my brain about it, which is such a good use of my time, as you can imagine.

And I decided to think like it's actually a good reminder that how we think about things

make such a big difference, right? Because we think about summer as being the time that we have the longest days and then

we actually miss that a lot of our longer days happen during the spring

before it's even nice out yet, right?

Because when you have an idea about how things are, you miss how things actually are,

right? When you have an idea about how things are, you miss how they actually are.

That's probably a better way to put the emphasis on that sentence.

And that's why I think this work is really about being present with what is.

It's not about 100% positive emotion. It's about being willing to kind of

be present with when it's sunny and when it's dark, right?

And not just because of contrast,

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