385. How to Cope When You Don’t Feel Ok
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Are you struggling to focus with everything happening in the world right now? You’re not alone. When life feels chaotic and uncertain, it’s natural for your brain to spiral. But staying stuck in that disoriented, doom-scrolling state isn’t actually helping you feel safer—it’s just keeping you trapped in stress and anxiety.
In this episode, I break down why your brain wants to keep obsessively checking the news and why that strategy never really helps. Plus, I’ll share one powerful mindset shift that can help you navigate this unsettling time. Tune in to learn how to make this shift and find a little more peace—no matter what’s happening around you.
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| 0:00.0 | If you are having trouble focusing right now, you are not alone. The news is head spinning, |
| 0:05.9 | and while I know there are people out there living their lives only dimly aware of current events, |
| 0:11.4 | that's not me. And if you follow this podcast, it's probably not you either. It is natural to |
| 0:17.2 | feel disjointed and uncertain right now. But it's also not helpful to feel discombobulated |
| 0:22.7 | indefinitely. So in today's episode, I want to help explain why you feel this way. It's not exactly |
| 0:28.5 | what you think. And also how to help your brain keep it together. So let's get into it. |
| 0:34.4 | Welcome to unfuck your brain. I'm your host Kara Lowenthal, master-certified coach, and founder of the School of New Feminist Thought. I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life on your own terms, one that you're truly excited to live. Let's go. |
| 0:58.6 | All right, my friends, we are all having a time event, am I right? It is funny being in the life coaching world after spending so long in the |
| 1:04.2 | legal and advocacy world because there are people in my life and parts of my network that are |
| 1:08.5 | just unfazed by everything happening politically, |
| 1:11.5 | not generally in the sense of being gung-ho about it, just in the sense of having a very |
| 1:15.5 | different set of beliefs about the importance of politics or the relevance of political |
| 1:19.5 | happenings to their lives. And then there's a larger group, admittedly, in my life, who are |
| 1:24.2 | really fixated on what's happening. And I'm somewhere between on that spectrum, |
| 1:28.9 | certainly my predisposition, how I was raised, my education, my former career would have me very |
| 1:34.4 | firmly in the fixation camp. And I'm definitely sometimes there. But because of thought work, |
| 1:40.4 | I've been able to at least somewhat detach my emotional state from my thoughts |
| 1:44.2 | about the state of the world at every given moment. But I know a lot of you are struggling right now, |
| 1:49.9 | struggling to focus on anything else, feeling emotionally exhausted, finding it hard to get |
| 1:54.7 | through the day, doom scrolling, reading the news way too much, even doing that compulsively, |
| 2:00.7 | and I totally get it. Given the current |
| 2:03.3 | political administration and world events, we are all on different places on the spectrum of how |
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