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,

Kara Lowenthal.

Hello, my chickens.

How are you guys all holding up?

We have been tackling some big stuff this month.

So it's okay if you feel a little mind blown.

You feel a little shook.

It's alright.

If you haven't listened to the past few episodes, especially the perfectionist fantasy and

problem thinking episode, I think they're useful.

I think they're just useful in general.

If I do say so myself, but I think they're useful background for this episode.

So you might want to go listen to that first.

So the last few weeks we've been talking about numbing and quote unquote compulsive behaviors,

again, not compulsive in a clinical sense where you need professional mental health

here to deal with it, but just those habits that you wish you could stop but feel kind

of out of your control, right?

Where you tell yourself you only want to drink on the weekends, but then you find yourself

drinking on a Wednesday, right?

And it's not, you know, we're not talking about drinking a fifth of vodka in the morning,

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