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 rock star, and master coach,

Carla Lowenthal.

Hello, my anxious chickens.

I hope that you all are getting better at managing your minds and learning how to deal with

your anxiety during this time.

I think one of the amazing things about being human is that humans are so adaptable

most of us, right?

Like the things that we get used to and the things that we live with are just run the

gamut all over the world and our personal lives and our professional lives and our kind

of global lives.

And so I just always think about how resilient humans are.

You know, civilizations have risen and fallen.

Even in our own personal lives, we get used to things that we thought we never could

get used to, you know, positive or negative sometimes.

But even after, you know, the first week or two of shock, we very quickly, I think humans

just get used to a new normal.

And so knowing that and knowing that life is 50, 50, right?

You're going to have positive and negative emotion, no matter what, your brain is going

to create moments of joy and connection and fun and your brain's going to create moments

of anxiety and fear and sadness, whether there's a pandemic or not, which really helps

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