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 chickens.

How are you?

I am great.

I just got back from a weekend upstate, actually, which is really nice.

And then this evening, I actually just had a long conversation with an old friend of mine

and we were laughing because we've both been through a lot this year and we were joking

that we were tired of growing and could we just get like a hall pass, you know, and

spend a while not having to grow.

But we're laughing about it because the truth is we've both made the kinds of life decisions

and risks and choices that entail moving towards growth and what can look like disruption

and dissolution in order to experience that discomfort of transformation and change.

And I think that that's really what this thought work journey is truly all about at what

every kind of higher level experience in life is about.

I mean, like you guys know, I'm a happy hedonist in some respects.

So I'm not saying that our more primitive desires aren't worthy or valuable or fun, but

in a lot of fundamental ways were wire to seek comfort and pleasure and what is familiar.

And I think that all of this self development work and thought work and coaching is all about

becoming the kind of person who moves towards discomfort and towards growth and towards

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