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,

Tara, Lowenthal.

Hello, my new listeners and existing chicken.

I hope you all are surviving your own brains today and we are going to talk about how to

make that even easier on the episode today.

So in the first episode of this bonus series, turning the panic into peace, we talked about

how the current situation and especially the news media and social media is really

kind of grabbing the wheel from your brain and activating this very primitive danger-focused

part of your brain.

And if you think about it statistically, so many more people right now are being impacted

by the fear of coronavirus and their thoughts about coronavirus that are actually being

impacted by the virus.

Now that's not to say that it's not important that we deal with the people being impacted

by the virus and it's not to say that we shouldn't make plans and take precautions and

practice social distancing like all of the experts recommend, right?

It doesn't mean we don't take it seriously as a public health issue.

But what I talked about in length in that first episode, which you should go listen to

if you haven't, is the way in which our kind of vision and thought process gets distorted

and almost hijacked because we're being told all of this constant information about something

that we are told is this big threat to our lives and because of the way our brain works,

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