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

UFYB 126: Anxiety and Control

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

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Discover exactly why we get sucked into believing that we can control other people and external circumstances, and why letting it go is the only path to true freedom. Any feeling you want to have can be achieved by relinquishing the belief that you can or should be able to control anything outside of yourself. To do this, I’m offering a set of questions you can ask yourself that will focus on the things you can control.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/126

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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.

0:32.8

How are you guys doing?

0:35.5

I know it has been a couple of weeks of a lot of thoughts and feelings and me too.

0:43.2

I have never, ever been so glad to know how to manage my mind.

0:48.5

I truly have always of course believed that these tools are essential for everyone,

0:54.1

but living through this time of change and crisis and fear, right?

1:00.8

We have a physical pandemic, but we also have a mental pandemic of panic going on.

1:06.3

I have never believed more in how important these tools are.

1:10.7

And I can see around me the difference between my coaching colleagues who have these tools

1:19.0

and use them every day and the people who don't have these tools.

1:22.4

And that's not to say, of course, we're all human, negative emotion,

1:26.4

including fear or anxiety or sadness or loss, right?

1:29.9

It's all a part of life.

1:31.1

So I'm not saying that I'm not having any of those or that you shouldn't be either of course.

1:37.7

But I do see such a difference between people who are able to use these tools and manage their minds

1:44.7

and people who don't know them.

1:45.9

So I'm just even more convinced about how important it is to share this work with everyone,

1:53.4

especially during this time, just how many people need it.

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