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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…
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- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
162. Soulmates, Friendship, and Coaching Breakthroughs: A Conversation with Rachel Hart
What happens when two coaches fall in (platonic) love? You’ll find out in this episode, where I’ll introduce you to life coach - and best friend of mine -…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
161. Anticipatory Stress (Insomnia, Public Speaking, etc.)
If you have insomnia, do you spend so much energy dreading the possibility of waking up at night that you literally can’t fall asleep? This is a perfect…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
160. Your Self Story & DEI Update
Do you define yourself by what you have or haven’t achieved in the past? If you’re in debt, do you think of yourself as someone who’s bad with money? If you’re…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
159. You Are Not the Reference Point
How often do you look at someone else’s behavior and think, “If I were them, I’d do that differently”? This may seem like an innocent habit, but it can wreak…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
158. Giving Yourself Permission
Do you ever notice a low hum of discomfort and anxiety when you do things that someone, somewhere along the line, told you that you shouldn’t do? Like, say…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
157. Election Emotions (2020 Politics & Beyond)
Are you feeling anxious and worried about the upcoming US presidential election? Our brains are wired to fixate on anything in the future that they perceive as…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
156. Victim Blaming & Self-Shaming
A lot of people think that “your thoughts create your feelings” means they should blame themselves if they’re struggling, even if they’re dealing with the…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
155. Resourcefulness vs. Resourcelessness
Do you know how to solve your own problems? Resourcefulness is one of the most important qualities you need to live an incredible life, but many of us have…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
154. Ghost Patterns - Anxiety, Fixation & Survival
Is your brain haunting you? Most of us experience ghosts of old anxious thought patterns even after we’ve used coaching to feel more confident and secure. In…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
153. Copenhagen & Croissants
You would never go to a toy store for a gala dress, so why do you stay with someone who’s afraid of commitment, when you’re looking for a life partner? Why do…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
152. Hope & Commitment
Are you feeling hopeless, afraid, despondent, or angry at the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg? In today’s podcast, I will teach you how to take hopeful…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
151. Maximalism
Do you wish your life looked more like those minimalist Instagram homes full of light and clean lines and constraint? In today’s podcast episode, you will…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
150. Compromising: How and When
Women are socialized to compromise our needs and happiness behind the needs of family, friends, even strangers. At the same time, we’ve also experienced…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
149. Diet Culture, Internalized Oppression, & Fat Bias - My Story
Most of us are so steeped in fatphobia that we don’t even realize it exists…and yet it impacts every aspect of our lives, from what we think about our bodies…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
148. Intuition
Listen in this week to discover why the framing of intuition as something you use to categorize an experience doesn’t serve you, how it gets confused with…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
147. Listener Q&A Vol. 17
Listen in today to get a taste of what it’s like to join The Clutch where I coach every single week on topics like body image and thought work. I’m doing a…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
146. Using TW Against Yourself
Listen in this week to discover if you might be using thought work against yourself. There are two main ways that I see this play out very commonly, and I’m…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
145. Mental Flexibility
Join me this week as I show you what mental flexibility is and why this skill is crucial in thought work. I’m outlining the irony that exists in resisting…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
144. Get Out of Other People's Models
Join me on the podcast today as I show you when it’s useful to think about other people’s models, when it’s not, and why. Making your mental and emotional…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
143. Radical Self-Love & Self-Care
Join me this week as I show you the power that lies in practicing radical self-love and exquisite self-care, why it is a radical subversive act, and how…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
142. Are You Underacting or Overacting?
Join me today as I share the nuances that come with being an overactor and an underactor, and the antidotes for each type of behavior. Both types are…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
141. Closure
Join me today as I show you what true closure is and how to get it. I’m outlining two things that many people believe will bring them closure if they had it…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
140. Selling Yourself on Your Thoughts
Join me on the podcast today as I show you why you have to sell yourself and commit to watering, nurturing, and growing the new thoughts you’ve planted in your…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
139. Let's Talk About Sex Vol. 2
Today I'm showing you how thought work can be used in various scenarios to improve your sex life and your physical experience of sex. It’s not all biology…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
138. Let's Talk About Sex Vol. 1
Listen in this week as I share a technique that I’ve found effective in connecting to your sexuality by embodying your own desire. This can feel uncomfortable…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
137. Defensiveness & Shame
Join me today as I show you what is actually happening when you feel defensive, and how shame feeds into this feeling and prevents you from consciously digging…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
The Role of Thought Work in Living with Racism: A Conversation with Erika Royal (UPDATED)
Join us today as Erika shares her experience of navigating racism and her own journey of finding her voice to speak up and have difficult conversations as a…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
136. Anti-Racist Thought Work for White People
Listen in today to discover the most productive ways for you to be an ally and to make anti-racism a practice. I’m showing you how to use thought work to start…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
135. Embrace the Suck
Today I'm sharing two big reasons why you need to embrace the suck. We’re going to experience it at least 50% of the time anyway, so why not accept that and…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
134. A Year of Thought Work Vol. 3 - Money, Money, Money
This week, I want you to hear from some of my Clutch students who have used thought work to change their relationship with money. I love that they each bring a…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
133. Your Financial Value & Worth
This week I illuminate the importance of this work in feeling secure in your moral value and worth, and why you, as a human, have inherent and intrinsic value…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
132. Pleasure First Principle
You can experience pleasure whenever and however you want, without permission from anyone else. I’m diving into how women don’t spend time on things we truly…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Bonus Podcast With Brooke Castillo
Kara and Brooke Castillo of the Life Coach School explore how the Covid-19 outbreak is presenting a unique opportunity for us to level up our thought work…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
131. A Year of Thought Work Vol. 2 - Dating, Breakups, & Social Justice
Listen in this week to catch Marissa and Deb share their experience around dating, breakups, social justice, and how The Clutch has helped them shift their…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
130. The What If Parade
I know all of you will be able to relate to having moments where your brain seems to go to worst-case scenarios; where you imagine all the horrible things that…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Creating Purpose Out of Chaos (Turn Panic Into Peace Series #11)
Listen in today as I show you how opportunities are available to you right now if you choose to see this crisis through a new lens. If you’re not currently…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
129. A Year of Thought Work Vol. 1 - Parenting, Body Image, & COVID-19
Join us on the podcast this week as The Clutch members, Bessie and Elizabeth, share their lessons learned and the best thought work they’ve done to transform…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
This Is Your Life (Turn Panic Into Peace Series #10)
Join me on this episode as I show you why humans tend to want to believe that our lives will start in the future, or that it will start once we have achieved…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Live Coaching: Relationships, Productivity & Health Anxiety During a Pandemic (Turn Panic Into Peace Series #9)
This is a time of questioning and being curious of your patterns, belief systems, and actions that you’ve been able to escape from before the pandemic, and…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
128. Boredom
Join me this week as I talk through what boredom actually is, whether it’s a problem, and how you can handle it better. Letting boredom just exist in your body…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Health Anxiety, Hyper-Vigilance, & Yes-And Thoughts (Turn Panic Into Peace Series #8)
Listen in today as I offer you three tools that I have found to be very helpful in my own life and with my clients with their health-related anxiety…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Money Mindset & Financial Anxiety (Turn Panic into Peace Series #7)
Listen in today as I show you why you can create value and money right now during a pandemic. Just because this is our current reality doesn’t mean you don’t…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Brain Habits & How to Change Them (Turn Panic Into Peace Series #6)
Listen in this week as I show you how your brain creates mental habits, and how cognitive bias is a crucial element to understand in changing them. This…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
127. How to Know What You Want
Join me this week as I break down what it means to want something, the fundamental motivation for why you want something if you have an unmanaged mind, and two…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Creating Productivity + Connection (Turn Panic into Peace Series #5)
In the midst of what feels like chaos and frenzy, most of us are seeking some stability and familiarity. Staying focused and productive in some area of your…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Why Mental Health Matters Most (Turn Panic into Peace Series #4)
Join me on this episode as I highlight why your mental health matters the most right now. You’ll discover what is possible for you when you prioritize this…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
How to Feel Better (Turn Panic Into Peace Series #3)
Join me as I walk you through the difference between your thoughts and your feelings, and how to identify what a feeling is. From there, you’ll be able to…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
126. Anxiety and Control
Discover exactly why we get sucked into believing that we can control other people and external circumstances, and why letting it go is the only path to true…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Neutralize Your Negative Thoughts (Turn Panic Into Peace Series #2)
Too often, we believe that the thoughts we have are unchangeable, and so we try to control everything outside of us to try to feel better, which is impossible…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Your Brain In A Pandemic (Turn Panic Into Peace Series #1)
Join me today to gain a deeper understanding of what is going on in your brain right now. This first step is crucial to changing the state of panic that you…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
125. Choose Your Own Adventure
Join me this week to discover how you might be disempowering yourself by not embracing the agency you have over your own life. There is no right or wrong…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
UFYB Bonus: Pandemic Panic (UPDATED)
Join me as I share some tools that you can practice to help you see why you might be feeling fear right now, as well as some reminders about the news and…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
124. Self-Improvement Shame
Join me this week as I introduce you to a concept I call self-improvement shame. Coming to this work with shame about yourself, to change your own negative…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
123. Your Brain on Patriarchy
Discover the true impact of patriarchy on our brains through the concept of heuristics. I'm giving you the basics of how our brain unconsciously absorbs the…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
122. Silver Linings + Positive Spin
As you learn about thought work and start using these tools to change your life, it’s only natural to want to speed things up, change all of your beliefs, and…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
121. Five Years of Thought Work Part 3: Friendships and My Self-Relationship
Join me this week to discover how practicing the skill of managing your mind can be the greatest gift you can give yourself. I’m now more kind and…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
120. Five Years of Thought Work Part 2: Family & Romantic Relationships
Join me this week to see if you can identify with some of the limiting beliefs I was holding onto around family and romantic relationships, and see how you…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
119. Five Years of Thought Work Part 1: Body, Work & Money
On today’s episode, I’m diving into my relationship with my body image, work, and money mindset, and how that has shifted over the years of doing this work. A…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
118. Empathy & Other People’s Models
Listen in today to gain a new perspective on why it’s so hard to fundamentally understand that other people have totally different thoughts to you, and how you…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
117. Result-Entitlement
Listen in as I take a deep dive into entitlement, how it shows up and why, and a new way to start thinking about the results you want that will save you time…