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.

So my chickens, how are you? I am very happy to be able to breathe again. I'm recording

this during the week that New York City has been kind of covered in a fire smog from the

Canadian wildfires. And I had a hard time with my breathing this week and my whole body

just felt on edge for over a week. And that was such a reminder for me of how all of our

ecosystems are related within my body. Like I felt like I was on edge. My mood wasn't

as good. Right. I felt like my nervous system was kind of activated because I was having

a little trouble with my breathing. And then just ecosystem wise, right? Like you can't just

tell yourself that some problem doesn't impact you because it seems far away. There aren't

forest fires in New York usually, but forest fires in Canada are impacting us here, right? We're

all connected. And so are our ecosystems. And this is like sort of a clunky segue, but it's

actually really accurate also that today's episode is kind of about how a certain kind of thought

pattern can circulate in unexpected ways through your mental ecosystem and cause problems

that you wouldn't expect. And I think it's also an episode that shows us why non-judgment and

compassion for ourselves and for others go hand in hand and truly can't be separated.

It's really wild to me how often I see people online, especially who are claiming to object to

someone else acting unjustly or someone else dehumanizing other people. And all the while they're

dehumanizing that person that they are criticizing themselves. It's just like a really wild feature

of kind of online left social discourse. And I would say left in quotation marks because what

the American left is and what the global left is can be very different. And I say this as a leftist,

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