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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

UFYB 23: Want Vs. Need

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We are taught as children, that our parents are supposed to meet our needs – emotional and material. When we grow up, we are “supposed to” substitute other people, like friends and romantic partners, for our parents, who should also meet our needs.

On this episode the UnF*ck Your Brain podcast, I explain why this type of reasoning is insane and teach you one of my favorite tools for revolutionizing your love life.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfckyourbrain.com/23

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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.

0:33.3

How are your roots today?

0:34.8

Right?

0:35.8

That's where chicken's sleep, I think.

0:38.3

It is officially spring, and yet it's snowed here in New York today, which I just think

0:43.5

is really unacceptable, and we should have a word with someone about that.

0:47.8

So anyway, in spring, as we all know, a young man's fancy is turned to love.

0:52.6

That's how the saying goes.

0:54.4

And a woman's fancy is turned to obsess anxiety about text messages and what they mean.

0:59.2

So today I want to teach you one of my favorite tools for revolutionizing your love life.

1:05.1

And they'll be clear, this is true whether you're on a first date or you've been married

1:09.0

for 20 years.

1:10.0

It's not really about text messages.

1:11.6

And it actually works for non-dating relationships too, but I see this thought error in dating

1:17.3

so much more.

1:18.3

So that's where I'm never really focused on it.

1:20.1

So call this one versus need.

1:22.5

Now the current kind of self-helpy empowerment literature is just chock full to the brim

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