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,

Tara, Lowenthal.

Hello, my chickens.

How are you all?

I have just had an amazing weekend, recording this on a Monday.

I have been really trying to intentionally create my weekends to include all the things

I want, which are like lazy time, culture time, friend time, date time.

And it's been a really nice balance so far.

I highly recommend deciding on purpose what you want your weekends to look like and

then scheduling those things rather than just kind of letting your time happen to you.

I teach this all the time, of course, but I think sometimes we think like, oh, I scheduled

my weeks and now my weekend is my free time.

But if you schedule things near free time, it actually feels like you have more time

and you enjoy it more.

It's kind of like a room looks smaller before you put furniture on it.

So one of the things that was interesting for me about this weekend was that at the same

time that I was having this lovely kind of weekend that I had created for myself, I also

was feeling some low level anxiety on and off for most of it, which is unusual for me these

days.

My brain had some things that was working through and I just was not able to coach myself

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