UFYB 145: Mental Flexibility
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Join me this week as I show you what mental flexibility is and why this skill is crucial in thought work. I’m outlining the irony that exists in resisting being challenged or in trying on a new contradictory thought, and why accepting, allowing, and holding space for two conflicting beliefs is what will help you move into alignment with the thing you want to become or have.
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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. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello, my chickens. |
| 0:32.7 | How are you? |
| 0:33.7 | I am loving my life right now. |
| 0:36.1 | And that's not because it's externally perfect. |
| 0:39.2 | We're still in the middle of the pandemic, and I think that I'm out of clean underwear. |
| 0:43.8 | And I'm going through my own mental and emotional challenges and coaching myself and I'm getting |
| 0:49.0 | coaching. |
| 0:50.0 | All of that is happening. |
| 0:51.5 | But my options are to resent reality or to love it. |
| 0:57.0 | And if I decide to love life even in a pandemic, that doesn't mean the pandemic is getting |
| 1:01.8 | away with something, right? |
| 1:04.3 | Need deciding to love life even in a pandemic doesn't make the pandemic more or less likely |
| 1:09.8 | to infect people. |
| 1:11.6 | Heating life in a pandemic is not going to teach it a lesson or change how the virus works. |
| 1:18.1 | Loving life in a pandemic doesn't mean I suddenly lose my ability to grasp how science |
| 1:23.8 | works or stop caring if other people live or die. |
| 1:28.5 | All it means is that I get to enjoy the present moment of my life, which is the only moment |
| 1:34.0 | that I'm guaranteed to have. |
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