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. Welcome, welcome back for the second installment of how to stop criticizing

everyone and everything. So if you didn't listen to the last episode, go listen to that.

That is where I break down really what I'm talking about with criticism, like how we define

that. And I go over a couple of like four major factors in our brains being trained

to criticize. And then I also talk about some of the different motivations we have for

expressing that criticism. And so in this episode, I really want to talk about what we can

do to change it. And I want to propose this by saying like, I've been working on this

for a while and it's still a work in progress for me. And it might be a work in progress

for my whole life. And that's okay. And this is like a little bit of a side note, but it

kind of feels important, especially because so many people listen to this podcast and the vast

majority of you are not coaches or teachers or therapists or people who do some of this

work for a living, but some of you are. And especially in the coaching world, I feel like

there's this thing that it goes like in and out of fashion to take like this bold stance

about how, you know, you should never try to teach your coach on something that you haven't

fully resolved and moved on from as if it's like unethical to do that if you are still

figuring it out. And I just called bullshit on that for so many reasons. Like number one,

first of all, I don't give a shit. Do what you want. You're an adult. Like I just, I

just feel like there's like in any profession, there's like a group of people who spend all

of their time like critiquing how other people do the profession. And there's a place for

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