How To Unf*ck Your Brain w/ Kara Loewentheil
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Kara Loewentheil is a master certified coach and host of the badass podcast Unfuck Your Brain. The core of Kara’s mission is to help others retrain their brains and stop believing the harsh things we have heard from society and have internalized as our own thoughts. Filled with humor, wisdom, and no BS, Kara is here to teach you what unfucking your brain really means.
Retrain Your Brain and Start Being Kinder To Yourself
By taking neutral baby steps, it is possible to change the way you think about yourself and the world. Instead of focusing on the negative, Kara wants to help you identify your thought patterns and help you think differently about the negative things that you have been taught to believe.
By diving into the particulars, staying away from the immeasurable number of things you have been taught to believe, and discovering your own internal landscape, you can retrain your brain and start being kinder to yourself. Filled with simple and applicable strategies, Kara’s episode is one that you do not want to miss.
Are you ready to work your way up the thought ladder and stop being so hard on yourself? Share how you are working to unfuck your brain in the comments on the episode page.
In This Episode
- How to identify your thought patterns and learn to control the thoughts you believe (10:15)
- Tips for working your way up the thought ladder through neutral baby steps (13:30)
- What it looks like to step from negative overwhelm to acceptance and peace (17:27)
- Why ‘fake it until you make it’ doesn’t work and what framework you should use instead (23:53)
- How to distinguish emotions from body sensations and how they work together (29:50)
Quotes
“What I teach is a method of actually unfucking your brain, which is that you have to go in there and identify the thoughts you have that sound like they are in your own voice. That’s the problem. We can identify these social messages, but in our heads, they don’t sound like the magazine that we read or the announcer voice on TV that we first heard it from, they sound like our own thoughts.” (9:45)
“We all want to fix the big problem right away, right? Like ‘I hate myself, I have low self-esteem, I just want to love myself’. And in my experience, you really cannot do effective coaching or self-coaching at that level of generality.” (18:37)
“Coaching is like building a building, you have to start from the ground up. So we can change huge things in our lives, but it starts a little bit by little bit.” (19:18)
“We want to see evidence in the world to justify the thought and have us believe it, but we have it backward. We have to believe it, at least a little bit, at first, that’s how we go out and create some evidence that something is possible.” (28:20)
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 294 of the Listen to Your Body podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | Today on the show you're going to learn how to unfuck your brain |
| 0:07.7 | with master certified coach, Carl Loyenthile. |
| 0:10.8 | The next evolution of Harder to Kill radio is here. Welcome to the |
| 0:18.0 | Listen to your Body podcast. On this show we'll explore the intersection of body, mind, and soul health and help you reclaim your abilities to eat and move more intuitively, hear your body's signals, and trust yourself more deeply. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm Steph Godro certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, |
| 0:41.1 | nutritional therapy practitioner, and strength coach. |
| 0:44.6 | On this podcast, you can expect to hear expert guest interviews and solo chats that will |
| 0:50.6 | help you deepen your trust with food, movement, and your body. |
| 0:55.0 | Remember to hit the subscribe button and share this podcast with your friends and |
| 1:00.3 | loved ones. Now, on to the show. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello, hello, |
| 1:10.0 | hello. Thank you so much for joining me on today's episode of the podcast. I am so glad that you're here. |
| 1:18.0 | Today's episode is amazing and I'll tell you more about that and our very special guest in a minute, but I haven't checked in with you in a while. I feel like I haven't updated you about what's new and happening outside of podcast land so just gonna take a minute to do that |
| 1:37.6 | Let's see I'm recording this July 29th and tomorrow July 30th is the one year anniversary of the core four coming out which is my book. |
| 1:48.0 | It is now available in paperback so all of you paperback lovers out there can go ahead and grab the book if you haven't got your hands on it yet |
| 1:57.8 | And I do think also that the hard covers the last time I checked were less expensive than the paperback which I think they're trying to move those out so |
| 2:08.4 | if you haven't yet had a chance to get the book go and get it |
| 2:12.1 | also super excited because my brand new membership called the |
| 2:17.2 | tune-in membership is started. We welcomed some incredible people into the community and the doors are closed for now. |
| 2:26.5 | So if you have gone to any of the links for that, you're going to see that the doors are currently closed and registration is |
| 2:33.1 | currently closed because I am off loving up on all of those incredible people who |
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