230: New Year's Resolutions Are Perfectionist Fantasies with Kara Loewentheil

Nourishing Women Podcast

Hello my fellow recovering perfectionists! You are going to love today’s conversation, with guest Kara Loewentheil, about how to truly create self confidence by rewiring your brain and thoughts, and letting go of perfectionist fantasies around New Year's resolutions.

Kara Loewentheil, J.D., is a Master Certified Coach, Host of the top-rated podcast UnF*ck Your Brain, and creator of The Clutch: A feminist mindset revolution. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, she did what every Ivy League feminist lawyer should do: Quit a prestigious academic career to become a life coach! Her Jewish parents have almost recovered; the fact that she built her business from zero to seven figures in three years didn't hurt. Five years after leaving the law she has taught thousands of women how to identify the ways that sexist socialization impacts their brains, and how to literally rewire their thought patterns to create true authentic confidence from within.

Her podcast, UnF*ck Your Brain, which combines evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and feminist theory in concrete and practical teachings and tools, has more than 12 million downloads. In 2019 she launched The Clutch, a feminist coaching community aimed at spreading the feminist mindset revolution across the globe. Since then thousands of women have joined and learned how to overcome insecurity, anxiety, imposter syndrome, people-pleasing, and their dependence on external validation. Kara specializes in teaching a step-by-step system that identifies and removes internalized oppression and creates new and unshakeable self-confidence.

Connect with Kara:

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In this episode we discuss:

• Kara’s journey from lawyer to becoming a master certified coach and starting her own business, podcast and coaching community.
• How thoughts create our feelings and impact our actions, and how to use the thought ladder to positively change this.
• New Year’s Resolutions: Are they good goals or perfectionist fantasies?
• Three “women’s empowerment” sayings that actually do a disservice for us in truly being empowered as women.
• What it truly takes to accept and love your body at any size.
• How to work towards neutral beliefs about your body to help change your body image.
• Kara shares about her amazing podcast, Unfuck Your Brain, and her coaching community, the Clutch.
• How Kara practices wellness without obsession.

Resources for you:

• Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.
• Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support.
• Take a look at our new online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop.

Let’s hang out! Connect with Victoria and the staff at NMN:

• Victoria’s Instagram
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• Nourishing Minds Nutrition Instagram
• Nourishing Minds Nutrition website

For every guest that comes on the show, we donate money to Loveland Foundation. The Loveland Foundation, a foundation that provides therapy and healing to Black women and girls. We are honored to donate monthly to the Loveland Foundation, and you can learn more and donate yourself here.

*Note: We are pausing on working with Primally Pure at this time until improvements in who they chose to sponsor with and brand integrity improves. I do not condone the dangerous ideologies of an affiliate of theirs and incredibly disheartened to learn about this.