Have you ever wondered why once you skip a commitment it becomes so much more tempting to keep skipping it?

It's like suddenly the momentum is turned and you're swimming upstream and it's very hard to get back on the wagon

to mix my liquid and concrete metaphors. In today's

episode I'm going to teach you exactly why this happens and how to keep a

slip from throwing you off your tracks. Welcome to Unfuck your brain feminist self-help for everyone.

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I'm your host Kara Loyuthile, Harvard Lawyer,

turned Life Coach Extraordinar,

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All right my deep thinkers on last episode, we talked about why resolutions or

goals in general fail, that it does not have to do with willpower or discipline. Instead, it's

the inability to tolerate discomfort or negative

emotion and the inability to redirect negative thinking. And I talked about how

these are not inborn traits that you can't change, the way that willpower or discipline

seem to be, since they're not real, the ability to tolerate discomfort or negative emotion,

the ability to redirect

negative thinking are just skills that you haven't learned yet because for

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