Have you ever felt a little embarrassed about perusing the self-help section of the bookstore or reading a self-help book on the subway?

Or have you wondered whether constantly trying to fix yourself might actually just be the patriarchy and society in your brain, making you think

you need to fix yourself to begin with.

This episode is going to explain exactly why self-help is a feminist practice, but only if you come at it from the right perspective. Welcome to Unfuck your brain feminist self-help for everyone brought to you by

the school of new feminist thought I'm your host Kara Loyuthile, Harvard Lawyer turned Life Coach Extraordinar and I'm here to help you get

society's sexist messages out of your brain so you can be confident, feel powerful, and live a life you won't regret when you die. If you want to

jumpstart that process, you need to grab my totally free guide to feeling less anxious

and more empowered by rewiring your brain. Just text your email to

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Now let's get for today's episode

because this is the first in a 10 episode series that I'm doing to get us all on the same

page about the most crucial foundations of feminist thought work.

If you're new to the podcast, this is a great place to start to get oriented and get the basic concepts of feminist mindset work established in your brain.

And if you've been around for a while, even if you've been around since the beginning, this is going to be a great updated

refresher course on how society impacts your brain, how your brain impacts your life,

and how to change your brain and your returns in your life on purpose.

And this is going to be like the most updated version of these concepts.

So let's set the stage in this episode for what we are doing here in this whole series.

Why do I embrace the concept of self-help?

What does self-help even mean?

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