Pre-UFYB 1: One and Done: How to Stop Procrastinating
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
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Your Lizard Brain Doesn't Know What to Do With It
Lizard brain is constantly seeing things that it thinks our lions trying to eat you. When we are anxious as humans, we tend to avoid the thing that makes us anxious. The lizard brain doesn't have a lot of actual threats to save us from. It has this highly evolved system for responding to threats. And so it just responds to much smaller threats all the time even though they aren't actually really physically dangerous in the sense of you're about to be eaten and killed.
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