390. Pretend You Have Amnesia - Instant Brain Reboot

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

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Is your brain stuck replaying the same unhelpful thoughts on a loop? You’re not broken—your brain is just doing what it’s been trained to do: cling to old stories, even when they’re holding you back. In this episode, I’m sharing one of my favorite coaching tools that can break that loop instantly. It’s simple, powerful, and might just change how you see everything—from your relationships to your goals to how you think about yourself.

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0:00.0	Writing this episode felt like I was doing an infomercial or clickbait. This one quick hack can reset your brain
0:06.7	instantly, but it's true. Because in this episode, I'm teaching a coaching tool that I use with my
0:12.3	private clients when I really want to help them get out of their preconceived perspective and their
0:18.2	existing unhelpful thoughts. This is a reframe that you can do anywhere,
0:22.9	anytime, to snap your brain out of its habitual beliefs and see anything, a relationship,
0:28.7	a goal, a circumstance, a belief about yourself in a new way. And when we have a fresh,
0:33.9	blank slate of a mind, a freshly cleaned brain, then we get to really decide on
0:39.0	purpose what to believe and who we want to be. So we're going to talk about all of that in this
0:44.0	life-changing episode. Let's get into it. Welcome to unfuck your brain. I'm your host,
0:50.8	Kara Lowenthiel, master-certified coach and founder of the School of New Feminist Thub.
0:56.4	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.
1:05.7	Let's go.
1:09.3	Welcome back to the podcast, my friends. It is spring here. Finally, the trees are all starting to bud as I record this. So it seems like a good time to think about renewal and kind of blooming, evolving, coming back to life, starting fresh. And today I want to talk about one of the powerful reframes that I use with clients when
1:28.1	they're really stuck in their way of thinking. First, we need to establish that there's no shame in
1:33.6	having a repetitive way of thinking that you can't shake, and that seems really true to you.
1:39.4	Your brain craves certainty and predictability above all else, and it will cling to what it already believes, even when it's not true or not helpful, or it's both untrue and unhelpful all at once.
1:53.4	So it's always really important to remember that your brain kind of has like a thumb on the scale, so to speak, or it has biased glasses.
2:02.4	It's always wanting to keep believing whatever it already believes, no matter how painful that is, because that seems
2:08.1	safe and predictable. When we have a longstanding thought pattern, we now have years or even
2:14.3	decades of not only believing that thought, but scanning for and accumulating
2:19.4	evidence for the thought. We have years or even decades of ignoring evidence that contradicts
2:25.3	the thought or other plausible explanations for things that happen that we interpret as proving
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