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, Carla Lohanthile.

Hello, my chickens. So today we're continuing with our series of the kind of greatest hits

best of the podcast. And I want to tell you a kind of a new story. Well, it's new because

it just happened, but a story that relates this topic and it touches on things I've talked

about before. Of course, all these things come together. But I think it's so perfect

that we are re-releasing this episode about dealing with uncertainty right now. Because

uncertainty is really the thing I think that the human brain has the most trouble with.

It is the thing that allows us to spin out and kind of think about all the different possible

things that could happen and waste so much energy worrying about things that may or may

not happen. But when we have a problem, we know how to solve it. Sometimes our brains

just act like turtles on their back and like they don't know what to do. But at least

when we know what's going to happen, we can plan. Humans like to plan makes us feel safe.

Some of us, some of us hate planning. I've dated people hate planning. But I really think

uncertainty is such a challenge. And so it was such a perfect day for this piece. I was

just reading this like unbelievable, incredible post in the clutch Facebook group, which

is where we have like our community discussion part of the clutch from this student of mine

who I coached a couple of weeks ago, who is Jewish and who was experiencing a lot of

anti-semitism in her life. People, you know, like writing on the outside of her building

and cursing her out and people who she thought were friends, telling her that they wish, you

know, Hitler had succeeded and threatening her family. And so she was really going through

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