UFYB 165: Saying No
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Do you agree to do things you’d prefer not to because you’re worried it would be rude or uncomfortable to refuse? Whether you take on extra obligations at work or make subtle concessions at home to “keep the peace,” your discomfort with saying no is likely impacting every area of your life. Tune into today’s episode to learn how you can say YES to yourself by getting better at saying NO to others.
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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. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello, my chickens. |
| 0:32.9 | How are you all? |
| 0:35.3 | So we are experiencing kind of our first real winter day here in New York, and I really, |
| 0:42.7 | I can't see I'm ready. |
| 0:43.9 | I can't see I'm pleased. |
| 0:46.1 | But I'm not going to resist, you know, what is? |
| 0:49.6 | We know that's how suffering is created. |
| 0:53.0 | So I was actually just listening to the news and I heard two kind of fascinating things |
| 0:58.2 | about the pandemic that I thought were such interesting examples of thought work. |
| 1:04.0 | Not consciously, it wasn't like stories about that work, but they were such interesting |
| 1:07.6 | examples about how to see multiple points of view or different potential thoughts about |
| 1:13.8 | an issue. |
| 1:15.3 | So the first one was, you know, as anybody who pays attention to the news knows they |
| 1:20.0 | recently announced that there are two vaccines that have advanced in their clinical trials |
| 1:24.0 | and have been found very effective. |
| 1:26.6 | And so one of the scientists that was being interviewed about it was talking about how |
| 1:31.5 | there was this irony that they thought it would take much longer to get the results because |
| 1:36.7 | in order for the study to progress, enough people in the test group had to naturally contract |
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