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, Low and Thile.

Hello, my chickens.

It has been quite a week, hasn't it?

I think a lot of us are having a lot of intense emotions the last couple of weeks, but this

to me is why we have thought work.

Life is not always supposed to be convenient and easy and comfortable for us, and for

those of us for whom it usually is those things, at least materially speaking, I think we're

being called on to pay closer attention.

So one of the things that naturally comes up as we start to broaden our awareness is

that we may start to feel defensive.

And this is something that happens in any area of our lives where we gain new awareness

of something.

And so today I really want to talk about defensiveness and I'm going to use my own mind and my own

thoughts about how I'm showing up as a coach and a business owner right now as an example.

But I'm going to distill for you the lesson that I think applies to any place that you're

feeling defensive in your life.

So the place that I have been feeling defensive recently has been around some of the conversations

around racial justice and making coaching businesses more equitable and inclusive.

And so I'm going to use myself as the example for that defensiveness to talk about it because

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