UFYB 169: Misconceptions about Thought Work & Mindset Coaching
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
There are a lot of misunderstandings about life coaching out there - that coaching is about gaslighting and spiritual bypassing, that it’s about learning how to “fix” yourself on your own, that it’s only for privileged people. In today’s podcast, I break down the 5 biggest misconceptions about mindset coaching to reveal what coaching is really about: taking control of your experience of the world and generating more love and compassion for yourself and 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, how are you guys? |
| 0:35.5 | How are we all doing? |
| 0:38.6 | It's 2021. |
| 0:40.2 | Some things still haven't changed from 2020 not surprisingly, others have. |
| 0:44.9 | I think it is normal for a lot of people to feel a little bit of a letdown in January. |
| 0:51.0 | I always think it's kind of odd that in Western society we've decided that New Year's is |
| 0:56.9 | the time for resolutions and changing everything about our lives. |
| 1:00.8 | And that comes in the middle of winter when at least in a place where winter is cold, |
| 1:07.7 | like much of the Western hemisphere you want to sleep in the winter. |
| 1:14.8 | It's a weird custom to have the New Year be at a time that you naturally want to hibernate. |
| 1:20.6 | So obviously people who live in places where it is warm and lovely in the winter in January |
| 1:26.0 | don't have this problem. |
| 1:27.4 | But some of us do. |
| 1:28.4 | So I hope you are being gentle and realistic with yourself and remembering that time is |
| 1:33.1 | a mental construct that humans have made up. |
| 1:37.3 | So I have actually been having, I had like hit my hibernation slump in December, but |
| 1:43.7 | I have been having a lot of breakthroughs in my personal coaching, coaching myself and |
| 1:48.9 | getting coached by my coaches. |
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