UFYB Bonus: Thought Work for Challenging Times

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

We may be experiencing fear, grief, anxiety, and uncertainty about what's happening in the world, even if those events are far away from us. What we do together in this community is make space for our emotions and choose the thoughts we want to believe so we can show up better for the world outside of us, no matter what is happening. But sometimes you need support when you’re going through something hard, personally, politically, or both. This episode provides a reminder of specific podcast episodes that can support you during challenging times.

For a full list of these episodes, please go to: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/world/

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0:00.0	Hello, my chickens. I know that we are currently in a time that brings up a lot of
0:07.5	frightening emotions for a lot of us, fear, grief, anxiety, uncertainty. And I as a human have
0:18.0	my own set of feelings about what's happening in the world. And I also know that there are things
0:24.0	happening in the world all the time that are creating that fear, grief, anxiety, uncertainty for
0:30.2	other people that aren't as close to home as for me. And so this episode is not about my personal
0:36.2	take on anything that's happening. It's about how I can support you when you are going through
0:43.6	something hard. And right now, that might be your reaction to world events. And at another time,
0:49.0	it might be a personal experience. But I just want to give you a little bit of a reminder about
0:53.9	the podcast resources that we have for challenging difficult situations, both personal and
1:01.9	global and geopolitical. Because my area of expertise, what we're here doing together on this
1:07.7	podcast in this community is the internal work of making space for our emotions, letting them move
1:15.6	through us, choosing the thoughts we want to believe so that we can show up better for the world
1:21.2	outside of us, whether that is the people closest to us or people on the other side of the world
1:26.5	that we want to help. So here are some episodes that I suggest. You don't have to write all these
1:32.4	down. At the end, I am going to give you a way to text and get them sent to your phone or a URL that
1:41.0	you can go to. So the first one is on Vacherbrain episode 70, clean versus dirty pain. This is about
1:49.6	kind of the way that we add suffering to pain and how to try to remove the suffering and be
1:55.7	with our own pain. On Vacherbrain 99, around fear and safety, so how our brains process fear had
2:03.4	to create safety for ourselves with our thinking. And even when the world outside of us is unsafe
2:09.2	for us, if that happens, creating safety in your own mind isn't about being delusional and
2:14.4	ignoring that. It's about regulating your own nervous system so that you can make smart
2:18.5	decisions and try to do the best you can in difficult circumstances. Episode 107, dealing with
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