UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone 445. Coaching Hotline: Feeling Trapped at Work & Compassion for Other People's Brains
Dec 2, 2025
Feeling trapped at work? Discover how thought work can transform your mindset. Explore why new thoughts sometimes lose their effectiveness and learn to challenge negative beliefs. Understand how your judgments of others often highlight your own mental struggles. Embrace self-compassion as a way to foster understanding for those around you. This enlightening discussion empowers you to shift your inner dialogue and build authentic confidence, revealing that the key to clarity often lies within.
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Practice Thoughts Regularly
- Practice new thoughts consistently to maintain their effectiveness.
- Stop expecting thoughts to have a 'half-life' and keep working them daily.
Thoughts Don't Decay On Their Own
- Thoughts don't inherently lose power over time; declining results mean you stopped practicing them.
- Treat thought change like a skill that requires repetition, not a one-time fix.
Answer New Objections With New Thoughts
- When a new objection arises, develop a second thought to answer it.
- Don't accept your brain's premises; interrogate and dismantle them step by step.