Kara Loewentheil

Kara Loewentheil is a life coach who helps women change how they think about themselves. She is a New York Times bestselling author and a former Ivy League women's rights lawyer. She founded The School of New Feminist Thought and hosts the podcast UnF*ck Your Brain. Her work centers on what she calls socially-programmed anxiety and the Brain Gap. She offers private coaching and a membership program called the Feminist Self-Help Society.

What Kara helps with

Kara works on the anxiety and self-doubt many women feel from years of social expectations. She helps clients decide what a good life means to them and build it.

• Socially-programmed anxiety
• The Brain Gap between how women want to feel and how they do
• Constant self-criticism and feeling not good enough
• People-pleasing
• Worry about appearance and weight
• Balancing work and parenting expectations
• Deciding what a good life means for you

Who Kara works with

Kara coaches women who were socialized to meet impossible expectations. They include women building careers, women weighing marriage and family pressure, and women who want to live on their own terms.

How Kara works

Kara teaches a framework built around the Brain Gap, which is the gap between how women and men are taught to think about themselves. Clients learn to close that gap in their own thinking. This is how she works on what she calls socially-programmed anxiety. She teaches this through private coaching and the Feminist Self-Help Society.

Background and qualifications

Kara Loewentheil trained as a lawyer and worked in women's rights at the Ivy League level. She then became a coach and earned the title Master Feminist Coach. She founded The School of New Feminist Thought. She hosts the podcast UnF*ck Your Brain and wrote the New York Times bestselling book Take Back Your Brain. She also runs a program that certifies feminist life coaches.

Kara Loewentheil pricing

Programs and services

• Private coaching
• Feminist Self-Help Society membership
• Certification program for feminist life coaches
• UnF*ck Your Brain podcast

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