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 it may surprise some of you to know that I lift weights with a

trainer twice a week. I don't know why that was surprising, but it just doesn't seem

completely in keeping with my persona, which mostly involves talking about how I hate

getting sweaty, at door ever being hot, and like to take a lot of naps. But I also lift

weights. And I have to say I have learned so much about my brain and my nervous system

from lifting. And lifting has also really given me a way to think about how my brain works

and how new neural patterns form and the ways in which, you know, the body and the mind

can work similarly. I think sometimes thought work is understood as being entirely cognitive,

which is not really the case, even though it's called thought work, at least not the way

that we teach and practice it around here, it really is about the mind body experience

taken together. And the way that we physically can train and change our bodies and our strength

and build new patterns in our brain that sort of control our muscles tells us a lot about

how our brains work to and how our thought patterns work to. And so I'm like, say to share

with you this actually pretty incredible conversation I had on the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast,

which I will admit is not a podcast that I knew a lot about before I was invited to

come speak on it. And so I really encourage you whether you exercise or not to listen

to this episode, because if you do exercise and you do kind of work out, you know, whatever

that means, moving your body is exercise. But if you, you know, let's just say do movement,

target movement on purpose for the purpose of exercise and or cardio or end or lifting,

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