387. The Thought Ladder and Thinking v. Believing (Greatest Hits)
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Today, I'm revisiting one of the most essential tools in thought work: the thought ladder.
If you’ve ever tried to change your results by slapping on a shiny new thought that doesn’t quite feel believable, you already know it doesn’t work that way. In this episode, I’m breaking down why belief—not just thought—is what really drives change, and how to climb the ladder in a way your brain can actually follow. This work takes patience and persistence, but the payoff is huge.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to our greatest hits series, where I occasionally like to reintroduce you to one of the greatest hits of the podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | Truth is, after doing this for so many years and having hundreds and hundreds of episodes, there are a lot of great episodes that newer listeners haven't heard at all, or that long-time listeners could stand to go back and revisit. |
| 0:23.4 | Each of these podcasts are some of my favorite, most impactful, most insightful podcasts, and they are definitely ones that |
| 0:29.1 | keep giving you new things to learn and think about, the more often you listen to them. |
| 0:34.3 | So even if you've heard this episode before, I really encourage you to listen again. |
| 0:38.3 | You will pick up new things. Your brain will synthesize it differently. And if you haven't heard |
| 0:42.2 | this episode yet, then you are in for a treat. Welcome to unfuck your brain. I'm your host, |
| 0:49.6 | Kara Lowenthal, master certified coach and founder of the School of New Feminist Thub. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life on |
| 1:00.7 | your own terms, one that you're truly excited to live. |
| 1:04.5 | Let's go. |
| 1:08.2 | Hello, my chickens. |
| 1:10.0 | How are you all? I think I've started to say, how are you all the same way every time too? |
| 1:16.2 | I'm always trying to think of a different way to open the podcast, but then it's just like habit. I see the mic and my mouth opens and that's what comes out. |
| 1:24.7 | So we have been working a lot in the clutch on how to change your thoughts, |
| 1:29.0 | obviously one of the biggest things that we are working on. And so I decided that for all of us, |
| 1:34.8 | you guys included, it was high time to revisit one of the most powerful tools I teach for |
| 1:40.9 | changing your thoughts. And that is called the thought ladder. And if you are in the |
| 1:46.1 | clutch, you should still listen to this podcast because it's going to help you. And if you are not in |
| 1:52.0 | the clutch, you know what I think about that. You should come hang out with us. But whether you're in it or not, |
| 1:56.6 | this tool is super important for learning how to change your thoughts. And I actually touched on this |
| 2:02.2 | tool in an early episode of the podcast. So some of you may remember that. It was back when it was |
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