UFYB 223: Burnout, Diet Culture, and Radical Rest: A Conversation with Caroline Dooner
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Do you struggle with burnout? If so, you can thank our capitalist, patriarchal and puritanical society for that. In this special episode with Caroline Dooner - burnout expert and author of The F*ck It Diet and Tired as F*ck - you will learn how to use coaching tools to overcome burnout for good. (And no, this doesn’t look like just taking more vacation time!)
Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/223
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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. And now here's your |
| 0:19.3 | host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile. |
| 0:28.1 | Okay, my chickens. You guys are going to be so excited about this podcast interview, but |
| 0:32.6 | everybody should like lay down and rest while they listen to it, because we are here to |
| 0:36.6 | talk about resting and hustling and diet culture and all the things. I'm having a conversation |
| 0:42.8 | with my amazing internet friend, at least Carolyn Duner, who many of you have read her book, |
| 0:48.7 | The Fuck It Diet. In fact, it is one of the books I give out in my advance certification |
| 0:53.1 | and feminist coaching, along with books by Bell Hooks and other amazing authors. So it's |
| 0:58.4 | good company to be in. And Carolyn has a new book called Tired As Fuck, because consistent |
| 1:04.6 | branding is important. So we're going to talk about it. So I actually, I was thinking |
| 1:10.2 | when I was thinking about this conversation, this is like the perfect time for me to talk |
| 1:14.2 | to you about this, because I have been thinking about this a lot. So I had this plan originally |
| 1:19.0 | to take off most of January. I was going to like not work in January. And then of course, |
| 1:24.0 | by the time I developed this plan, I had already like scheduled this podcast interviews |
| 1:27.5 | and various things. So it was like, okay, I'm just going to work like these three days |
| 1:30.9 | in January. Right. And then my partner and I got Omicron because every day in New York |
| 1:36.1 | got Omicron, right? Despite having been like so careful this whole not, I mean, public |
| 1:40.2 | health is not a matter of personal responsibility, but we were also being very careful and nevertheless. |
| 1:44.7 | So then I had Omicron. So then that pushed things back. And then I like watched how quickly, |
| 1:50.3 | even the time I did take off, which ended up being like one week. And then I'll take |
| 1:53.6 | off one more week. How quickly that time like got spent on things, got plan on things. |
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