382. How to Be Capable in Times of Crisis
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Are you feeling overwhelmed or even paralyzed by everything happening in the world right now? Do you catch yourself looking to others for answers—waiting for someone to tell you what to do or how to respond?
Women are taught from birth that we’re too emotional, too irrational, too incapable of figuring things out on our own—especially when things get tough. But that conditioning is total BS, and it’s costing us our agency, autonomy, and ability to take action. In this short but powerful episode, I’m breaking down why it’s crucial to trust yourself, how to develop self-efficacy even when you’re feeling overwhelmed, and why waiting for permission or direction is the biggest thing holding you back.
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| 0:00.0 | If you've been feeling overwhelmed by the news and politics right now, you're not alone. |
| 0:05.2 | I've been hearing from so many followers and listeners about this, and I've been hearing |
| 0:08.8 | from my own brain about it too. So today I want to talk about one of the sneakiest, most pernicious |
| 0:14.0 | beliefs that I see showing up in some of the messages I'm getting and also again in my own |
| 0:19.8 | brain. It's something that is super |
| 0:21.8 | easy to miss. It sort of blends into the background, but it impacts everything else you think |
| 0:26.4 | and do when it comes to dealing with crisis. So whether it's geopolitical crisis in the world |
| 0:31.8 | or a personal crisis in your life, this episode is crucial. This episode is on the short side. I'm still recovering from a head |
| 0:39.1 | cold and I don't want to hack up a lung on the podcast, but I also want to give you fair warning |
| 0:43.2 | that I get pretty blunt in this episode. It's short, but it is to the point and powerful. |
| 0:48.1 | Tough love is coming up. You have been warned. Welcome to unfuck your brain. I'm your host Kara Lowentile, master-certified coach, |
| 0:57.6 | and founder of the School of New Feminist Thought. I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, |
| 1:03.7 | turn up your confidence, and create a life on your own terms, one that you're truly excited to live. |
| 1:10.1 | Let's go. |
| 1:19.6 | So last week, I posted a Q&A box on Instagram asking folks what they needed help with when it came to mindset, thoughts, and feelings around our current political and global situation. |
| 1:25.3 | And I got some answers I expected, like how to handle stress, how to handle |
| 1:29.8 | anxiety, how to handle panic, how to handle anger, how to hold on to optimism or hope or positivity. |
| 1:36.3 | So I'm going to address all of those in a new series, which will be sharing on the podcast |
| 1:41.1 | and on social media. And we're going to kick that off in a few weeks as soon as |
| 1:44.3 | I can create everything for you. But I also got a lot of messages that said things like, what should I |
| 1:50.8 | do? Who can I trust? What media do you think I should follow? What organizations do you think I should |
| 1:56.3 | donate to? I don't know what to do or where to start. What do you think? And when I responded to some of these |
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