Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Dr. Julie Smith,

she's a clinical psychologist, online educator and an author. Bad days will come, stress and burnout

and feeling down is always a potential threat. So it's vital that you understand the right tools

to recognize this, deal with it and bring yourself back to a balanced mindset.

Expect to learn whether depression is actually caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain,

what most people misunderstand about anxiety, the most important things to avoid when you're

feeling down, how a bad morning can be turned around, how to improve from a place of growth,

not a place of fear, and much more. Don't forget that you might be listening but not

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