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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone breaks down the centuries of sexist socialization that causes us to struggle with self-doubt, burnout, and anxiety. Hosted by Master Feminist Coach Kara Loewentheil, J.D., founder of The School of New Feminist Thought and author of Take Back Your Brain (Penguin 2024), each episode teaches you how to turn down the noise of societal expectations, turn up the volume on what YOU really want in life, and change your thinking to make sure you go get…
Episodes
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
56. How Rejection Holds You Back in Business and Dating
Join me today for a tough look at how so many of us are letting our fears of shame and rejection keep us from putting ourselves out there enough to reach our…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
55. Social Anxiety
A lot of us are paranoid about what other people think about us, especially in social situations. But just because your mental default is to worry about other…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
54. Listener Q & A Vol. 6
Join me as we get into topics like managing your mind under the influence of alcohol, mind over matter, cultivating confidence, managing thoughts of…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
53. Listener Q & A Vol. 5
This week, we have another installment of the Listener Q & As. In this episode, we dive into topics such as dealing with overwhelm, empathy vs compassion…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
52. Trust
On this episode, we take a deep dive into the topic of trust and explore the common misconceptions about it that are holding you back. After listening to this…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
51. Listener Q & A Vol. 4
This week, I am back with another round of questions from all of you and my tough-love answers. Today, we’re digging into a number of topics such as dealing…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
50. People-Pleasing 2.0
Today, I want to teach you more in-depth about people-pleasing and why I think we should stop using that terminology. Join me today for People-Pleasing 2.0 and…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
49. Friendship
In this episode, I’ll talk about the assumptions most of us make about friendship and discuss why it’s important to refresh how you think about your friends…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
48. Listener Q & A Vol. 3
Join me this week as I answer more of your questions that you sent in via email, Facebook, and Instagram on a variety of topics ranging from boundaries…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
47. Boundaries
This week, I explain what a boundary is and why everything that you have previously known about boundaries is most likely wrong (or at least highly unhelpful)…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
46. Listener Q & A Vol. 2
After the last listener Q & A episode, I got a lot of great feedback from you guys and have since received a ton of new questions. Today, I am answering more…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
45. Constraint
Constraint is one of the mind management tools that has had a huge impact on my ability to achieve ambitious goals, and quickly and exponentially grow my…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
44. Catastrophizing
This week, I want to talk to you about the concept of catastrophizing, or imagining all the possible future negative scenarios that could happen and…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
43. Why Restriction Doesn't Work
On this episode, we take a look at why restricting yourself from having or doing something that you want – whether it’s food, alcohol, or spending – does not…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
42. Listener Q & A Vol. 1
I get a lot of emails, Facebook, and Instagram messages from you guys. And although I love to hear from all of you, due to the sheer volume of these messages…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
41. Drama & Toxic People
On this episode, we take a look at the reality behind drama and who really causes it in your life. I explain why you should actually consider spending more…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
UFYB Bonus: An Interview with Jami
A bonus interview with Jami. If you find this bonus episode helpful and you’d like to achieve similar results to my clients’, visit…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
40. Reactivity Vs. Resilience
Are you usually emotionally exhausted by the end of the day? Do you obsess over whether other people are upset with you (even if there’s no actual evidence to…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
39. Reaching Your Potential
I believe that most people misunderstand what potential is and what it actually means. This is a deep topic that has a lot of ramifications for how we think…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
38. How to Choose New Thoughts
You probably already accept the idea that not all of your thoughts are true. With that in mind, what should you believe? On this episode, I explain why no one…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
37. Self Love 2.0
Listen in as we take a look at three thought errors that are running in the back of your mind, holding you back from working on your emotional health and…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
36. Antidotes to Perfectionism (Other Focus + Minimum Baseline)
A couple of weeks ago, we talked about perfectionism and how so many of us love to make unrealistic plans and never keep them or see them through to the end…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
35. Contrast of Emotion
On this episode, I want to talk about why you should consider welcoming negative emotions that come up in your life and how this practice can help you live a…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
34. Living with Intention
So many of us go through life without really making decisions for ourselves or understanding the decisions we made. Then one day, we wake up and find ourselves…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
33. Gratitude
I often see many of my clients trying to use a gratitude practice against themselves in a way that can be quite harmful to their mental health. In this…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
32. Ask Better Questions
This week, I want to teach you one of the best tools that I learned from my coach – the power of asking better questions. Join me as I explain how asking…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
31. What About Sexism?
On this episode, I talk about how your reaction to other people’s gender-based discrimination may be impacting your emotional state and creating unnecessary…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
30. Pleasure
On this episode, I explain why, no matter what ideologies you internalized over the years, you DO NOT have to earn pleasure and you’re 100% entitled to it. We…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
29. My Annual Review & Lessons Learned
This week, I decided to give you a behind-the-scenes look at my annual review and share the important lessons that I learned along the way. Join me to hear 5…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
28. How to Lead
On this episode, I want to explore why, contrary to the popular belief, being a leader is not about an attachment to a certain outcome and dependent on…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
UFYB Bonus: An Interview with Shira
A bonus interview with Shira. If you find this bonus episode helpful and you’d like to achieve similar results to my clients’, visit…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
27. Busy Is a State of Mind
In this episode, we explore what it really means to be busy and why we choose to inflict busyness on ourselves. We take a look at the two forms of the “I’m so…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
UFYB Bonus: An Interview with Nancy
A bonus interview with Nancy. If you find this bonus episode helpful and you’d like to achieve similar results to my clients’, visit…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
26. Taking Responsibility for Other People’s Feelings
Today, I want to give you a sense of what the deeper, second level teachings that we do in the UnF*ckYour Brain program look like and teach you an advanced…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
UFYB Bonus: My Story
Today, I'm going doing something a little bit different. As our flock grows, I know that some of you may not know much about me or my story - where I came…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
25. How to Make Decisions
On this episode, we take another look at the real reason why, when presented with two or more choices, we often get paralyzed, unable to make a decision. From…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
24. Confusion Is a Lie
On this episode, we dive into the reasons why confusion is an indulgent emotion and why you actually like to stay confused. We also explore exactly where…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
23. Want Vs. Need
We are taught as children, that our parents are supposed to meet our needs – emotional and material. When we grow up, we are “supposed to” substitute other…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
22. Insight vs. Transformation
On this episode, I want to talk to you about what actually creates lasting transformation. It’s an integral step in the process of unf*cking your brain that…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
21. Toxic Work Coaching
This week on the UnF*ck Your Brain podcast, we’re doing something bit different. On this episode, I want to teach you through a 2-way conversation – a…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
20. Confirmation Bias
This week's episode of Unf*ck Your Brain is going to blow your mind. I'm talking about something all of us experience that can be extremely detrimental to our…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
UFYB Bonus: Compare and Despair Follow-Up with Stacey Smith
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19. Shame
Today on Unf*ck Your Brain, I'm talking about something I know all of you have felt at one time or another. In fact, it is such a universal part of the human…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
18. Massive Action
This week, I want to teach you one of my favorite coaching tools for achieving tremendous results in any part of your life – taking massive action. Join me as…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
17. What Creates Your Personality
Tune in to get your mind blow as I share my own personality theory that will challenge everything you think you know about the "type" of person you are…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
16. Love Yo' Self
I know the topic of self-love feels a little confrontational for a lot of you, but I want you to stick with me today as I share how it's possible for you to…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
15. Compare and Despair
On this episode of Unf*ck Your Brain, I want to talk about why we constantly compare ourselves to others - even though it makes us feel bad - and the role two…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
14. Money Mindset Mistakes
On this episode, I want to dig into the reasons why we have a poor relationship with money and share my personal story of how I shifted my money beliefs…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
13. How to Love Photos of Yourself
Until the last couple of years, I hated having my photos taken, no matter where they were shot, what I was wearing, or how I looked. All I saw in them were my…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
12. Negativity Bias
On this episode of UnF*ck Your Brain, we take a look at why our brain is so good at remembering and focusing on negative outcomes and not so great at conjuring…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
11. Stress Isn't Necessary
On today’s episode, I break down what stress really is and why it is not necessary despite the conditioning of society that says that stress is good for…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
10. Making & Keeping Resolutions
On this episode, we explore two powerful tools for keeping your commitments and reaching any goal happen 100% of the time. We also take a look at how choice…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
9. Thought Work Is a Feminist Act
In this short but important episode, I explain the immense benefits of investing in your mental and emotional health, why it's a feminist issue, and why you…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
8. How to Stop Settling
Today, I want to talk to you about settling – what it’s all about, why you do it, and the harmful effects of settling. Listen in to discover why you should…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
7. How to Feel Great Naked
No matter what your body looks like it IS possible to feel great with no clothes on; and on this episode, I explain exactly how you can get to that place. Get…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
5. How to Survive Family Time
Today, we’re talking about how to survive family time during the stressful holiday season. Join me on this episode as I share a powerful strategy to help you…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
4. People Pleasing
This week, we're talking about how our society and upbringing has affected our subconscious (and conscious) thinking to constantly engage in people pleasing…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
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- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
3. Creating Self-Confidence
On this episode, we take a look at how most of us try to “fix” our lack of confidence and examine why trying to accomplish something external will never solve…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
2. Imposter Syndrome
In this episode, we take a deep dive into the topic of Imposter Syndrome and examine the roots of this damaging thought pattern. Join us for an exploration of…