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

UFYB 122: Silver Linings + Positive Spin

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

Kara Loewentheil

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

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

As you learn about thought work and start using these tools to change your life, it’s only natural to want to speed things up, change all of your beliefs, and start getting the results you want right away. Something I’ve seen every single one of my students do at some point is ‘silver-lining’ their thoughts to feel better, and today I’m showing you how this isn’t conducive to the process and why it doesn’t work.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

0:13.8

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life.

0:18.6

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach,

0:24.7

Tara, Lowenthal.

0:31.4

Hello, my chickens.

0:32.9

How are you?

0:34.3

Are we all surviving February?

0:38.0

I was just laughing with my friend Kelly, who's a friend of mine from law school because we used

0:43.6

to have a rule that we're not allowed to make any life decisions in February, especially

0:48.2

in law school.

0:49.2

February, you were just kind of like prone to lose your mind.

0:53.4

Now that I know about that work, obviously, I no longer have decision making rules for

0:57.5

specific months, but I do sometimes have to ask myself like, if it was light outside and

1:02.5

warm, like, would I make the same decision?

1:06.0

Right.

1:06.2

Well, what would I be thinking that?

1:07.8

But we're almost to March.

1:08.8

I think we're going to make it.

1:10.0

And I really shouldn't complain because I just got back from a weekend in San Francisco,

1:14.4

where it was 60 degrees and beautiful.

1:17.3

San Francisco was really bringing it.

1:19.3

I decided to run away for the weekend to spend some time with my dear friends who live

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