Kara Loewentheil

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

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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 it. This podcast is an essential resource for anyone eager to embrace a life free from limiting belie...

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Kara Loewentheil

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Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

127. How to Know What You Want 02.04.2020

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 exercises you can use to determine what you actually want. I’ll also be diving into how women especially use thought work against themselves in deciding what they want for their lives. Get full show notes and more information here: https://...

Creating Productivity + Connection (Turn Panic into Peace Series #5) 01.04.2020

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 life and feeling connected to other people are two ways of doing this, and I’m offering my recommendations of how you can do this reasonably and realistically. Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/producti...

Why Mental Health Matters Most (Turn Panic into Peace Series #4) 30.03.2020

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 over your physical state, and how undermining it is actually deteriorating both your body and mind. Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/mental-health-peace-4

How to Feel Better (Turn Panic Into Peace Series #3) 28.03.2020

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 start the process of intentionally creating emotions that you want to feel, and at the same time, you’ll be able to allow emotions that feel uncomfortable in your body without resisting them. Get full show notes and more information here: https:...

126. Anxiety and Control 26.03.2020

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 freedom. Any feeling you want to have can be achieved by relinquishing the belief that you can or should be able to control anything outside of yourself. To do this, I’m offering a set of questions you can ask yourself that will focus on the...

Neutralize Your Negative Thoughts (Turn Panic Into Peace Series #2) 25.03.2020

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. Instead, what I’m offering you today is a technique called neutral thoughts that will guide you in actively choosing thoughts that serve you. Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/neutralize-peace-2

Your Brain In A Pandemic (Turn Panic Into Peace Series #1) 23.03.2020

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 might be experiencing. I’ll also be highlighting how the news and social media can feed into the frenzy that your mind is going through. Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/pandemic-peace-1

125. Choose Your Own Adventure 19.03.2020

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, failure or success. You can have any adventure you want, and there is no wrong story to write. Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/125

UFYB Bonus: Pandemic Panic (UPDATED) 17.03.2020

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 social media and the role it plays in your mental health. Acting out of fear will always feel terrible, and so I’m sharing my pandemic mission statement and some affirmations that you can use too, to help you be in control of your brain and manag...

124. Self-Improvement Shame 12.03.2020

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 thoughts about yourself, is never going to produce the change you want to see. You can’t outrun your shame, and so instead, I’m showing you how to start creating true transformation in the long-run. Get full show notes and more information here...

123. Your Brain on Patriarchy 05.03.2020

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 messages we’re taught and creates reasoning shortcuts, and then how that ties into the patriarchy and our experience as people socialized as women. Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/123

122. Silver Linings + Positive Spin 27.02.2020

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 start getting the results you want right away. Something I’ve seen every single one of my students do at some point is ‘silver-lining’ their thoughts to feel better, and today I’m showing you how this isn’t conducive to the process and why i...

121. Five Years of Thought Work Part 3: Friendships and My Self-Relationship 20.02.2020

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 compassionate to myself in moments of intense suffering and negativity, and you too will get to see the transformations that are truly possible if you apply this work. Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/121

120. Five Years of Thought Work Part 2: Family & Romantic Relationships 13.02.2020

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 could free yourself of thoughts that aren’t serving you. Make sure to tune in next week as I dive into friendships and other social relationships too! Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/120

119. Five Years of Thought Work Part 1: Body, Work & Money 06.02.2020

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 lot has changed since I first started in 2015, and I’m sharing the progress I’ve seen in those areas, as well as the habitual thought patterns that occasionally still show up. Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyour...

118. Empathy & Other People’s Models 30.01.2020

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 buy into the assumptions you have about what’s going on in their brain. If you don’t know what a model is, I’m giving you the basics to help you understand this concept better, and I’m also sharing my interpretation of what empathy really m...

117. Result-Entitlement 23.01.2020

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 and energy, instead of sitting in entitlement, which drains all of your resources and leaves you in emotional drama. Get full show notes and more information here: http://unfuckyourbrain.com/117

116. Forgiveness & Blame 16.01.2020

This week, we’re talking about the past and how you think about it in terms of forgiveness and blame. As most people are looking to the future now that 2020 has begun, I’m taking it back so you can start seeing your future in a new way and release yourself from the suffering you might be experiencing. Get full show notes and more information here: http://unfuckyourbrain.com/116

115. Listener Q&A: Confidence, Coaching, HSP, Other People’s Emotions & Podcasting 09.01.2020

I’ve received questions on podcasting and how to be a credible host, what I think draws people to coaching and how to be a coach people are drawn to, and my thoughts on carrying your clients’ emotions as you coach them. I’m also responding to some questions you guys had on confidence and my best advice on how to be successful. Get full show notes and more information here: http://unfuckyourbrain.c...

114. Wanting Vs. Having or the Pleasure of Desire 02.01.2020

This week, I’m diving into the basic premise of desire and why changing how we think about it can be so transformational. We tend to want to push this feeling away when we can’t have something, or rush to acquire the object of our desires if we can have it, but I want to suggest a new way to approach this feeling. Get full show notes and more information here: http://unfuckyourbrain.com/114

113. Listener Q&A: Goals, New Year Resolutions, Dating, Love & Sex 26.12.2019

I hope my answers are helpful in getting you into the new year with a well-managed mind to create all the results you want. I’m sharing my thoughts on unrequited love and whether it’s a problem, the basis of libido and sexual attraction, and how to ask better questions when it comes to creating anything that you want in your life. Get full show notes and more information here: http://unfuckyourbra...

112. Vulnerability & Intimacy 19.12.2019

Join me this week as I break down how true vulnerability creates intimacy in your life, and how to practice it. The only person who can make you feel vulnerable is you, so I want you to take this work and think about how you might be inflicting your own emotional pain. Get full show notes and more information here: http://unfuckyourbrain.com/112

111. Listener Q&A - Work + Self-Regard 12.12.2019

I’m answering work and self-worth related questions today, and I’ve seen a link across almost all the questions I’ve received. You might think these questions don’t relate to your specific circumstance if it’s not something you’re dealing with, but I’m sure you’ll find a common thread in your own life when you listen to my answers. Get full show notes and more information here: http://unfuckyourbr...

110. Dating, Perfectionism & Anxious Attachment 05.12.2019

This week, I’m taking a topic I’ve discussed on the podcast before a step further. Attachment theory is something you might believe in, or you might not, but I think it’s useful to discuss it to see how it’s affecting your relationships, especially in terms of your dating life.  Get full show notes and more information here: http://unfuckyourbrain.com/110

109. This Is the Part Where... 28.11.2019

Listen in today as I bring you a short and sweet episode, but one that is so powerful in changing how you perceive your story and what might be going on for you right now. Using this thought whenever you’re struggling will help you see that you can handle any emotion and that nothing has gone wrong. Get full show notes and more information here: http://unfuckyourbrain.com/109

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