Pre-UFYB 12: Substance Use & Abuse

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

Kara Loewentheil

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

4.6 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

n this episode, I explain what actually contributes to substance use and abuse and how you can solve those problems without using *or* quitting your job. If you’re using substances more often than you would like and you want to better understand why you use and how to cut back, this podcast is for you.

Tune in to find out how you can break your habit of using and abusing substances and better manage your urges to use. Discover three things that you can start practicing today to reduce your desire to use alcohol or other substances and create lasting change in your life and career.

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0:00.0	If you like what you hear on this episode, you're going to want to come check out my new podcast
0:04.4	called The Unfuck Your Brain Podcast. What you're listening to right now, the lawyer's stress
0:09.7	solution, has ceased production of new episodes. But unfuck your brain is rockin' and rollin'.
0:15.6	Every week, I release a new episode of The Unfuck Your Brain Podcast, teaching you the same
0:20.8	great tools for taming your brain. But with even more applications to other areas of your life.
0:26.5	You can search for it by name. Remember, there's an asterisk instead of the you in unfuck because
0:32.3	we like to be polite. Or just click the link to it in the podcast description for this show. I'll see you
0:38.2	over there.
0:47.8	You're listening to The Lawyer's Stress Solution. The only podcast that teaches you cognitive
0:52.9	science-based techniques specifically created for lawyers. Learn how to manage your lawyer brain
0:58.6	and conquer the stress, anxiety, and overwhelm of lawyer life. Here's your host,
1:04.2	former lawyer and certified master coach, Kara Loan-Thyles.
1:11.3	Good morning everyone. I'm recording this on a Monday and I'm just thinking about all the lawyers
1:17.6	out there who maybe drank a little too much this weekend or used drugs this weekend and are
1:24.7	feeling slow this morning and wishing it wasn't on Monday and wishing that they could get their
1:31.2	shit together, right? That they could get through the weekend without using substances and feeling
1:38.0	hungover, that they could approach the work week without looking forward already to when they could
1:43.1	have a drink. So as you can guess the subject of this topic today is substance abuse. I've gotten
1:50.0	a ton of emails this week about the New York Times article on lawyers and addiction.
1:55.0	I had clients freaking out at 1am that they have to quit their jobs so they don't become heroin addicts.
2:00.8	So listen to me really carefully. Being a lawyer does not make you a drug addict.
2:06.9	In this episode, I'm going to explain what does contribute to substance abuse and how you can
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