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, how are you? I'm feeling pretty good. My brain is tired, but I've been on

the road for about 10 days and my body was very confused and didn't really want to sleep.

And so my sleep schedule is all wacky and it was actually super interesting because I love

to find places in my life where I noticed that like one version of something I have so

many thoughts about and then another version of something I'm totally chill about. And to

see that contrast is always so helpful for me because it just like shows me how optional

my thoughts are. So I've talked to the podcast before about having you know chronic pain

and doing thought work around chronic pain and I've come a long way in my thoughts and

around chronic pain stuff. But I still do tend to have a more kind of fraught relationship

with those symptoms let's say where I've had to really train myself to like not jump

straight to trying to fix things, not you know regard symptoms as a problem to take

down the like fear and stress response and response to pain symptoms. So it's like that's

only a sort of actively work on. Let me just say in advance no need to DM me with your

thoughts about whatever I'm about to say I have my own you know medical care providers

that consult as needed. So my sleep has been very wonky for like the last few weeks and

it's been tied to some also some physical like movement stuff I've been doing and so

some of it has been like sore muscles. Some of it has potentially been you know having

been sick that I was traveling that I was jet lagged. But the point is that for like

a while maybe like three or four weeks I I am historically somebody who can just like

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