52 - How to Clean Up Your Mental Mess with Dr. Caroline Leaf

The Verywell Mind Podcast

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Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education

5 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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“We can manage our minds. Our minds are malleable. It's a skill that we can actually learn. It's not a therapy technique. It's not a little magic trick. This is hardcore science.” Dr. Caroline Leaf is a cognitive neuroscientist who has spent more than 30 years studying the brain. Her research has found that changing the way you think and changing the way you approach problems can physically alter your brain. She shares how her five-step approach to mind management can reduce toxic thinking as well as depression and anxiety by 81%. It's a simple but effective way to physically transform your brain so you can feel and do your best. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast. We've interviewed over 100 authors, experts, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and others to help you learn strategies to care for your mental health.
0:22.9	This episode is hosted by psychotherapist and bestselling author Amy Morin. Now let's get into the episode.
0:51.7	Okay. Today I talk to Dr. Caroline Leif. Dr. Leif is a cognitive neuroscientist, and she's also the host of the Cleaning Up the Mental Mess podcast. For more than 30 years, she's
0:56.3	been studying how changing the way that you think can actually alter your brain physically.
1:02.0	She teaches people how to use their mind to grow their brains in a way that can help them
1:06.3	succeed. And now she has a new book called Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess. Her book takes a really deep
1:12.4	dive into the brain and how a simple five-step process can physically alter your brain.
1:18.2	On today's show, we discuss some of the science behind Dr. Leif's research and how her method works.
1:24.1	Then we discuss that five-step process that you can use to gain better control over your mind.
1:30.3	Make sure to stick around for the end for the therapist's take.
1:33.4	This is the part of the show where I'll give you my take on Dr. Leif's five-step process
1:37.5	and explain how you can apply it to your own life and your own brain.
1:42.2	So here's Dr. Caroline Leif. She's mentally strong. This is her story.
1:48.2	Dr. Caroline Leif, thank you so much for being on the Mentally Strong People podcast.
1:52.4	I'm so excited, Amy. It's so good to speak to you again. Yes, you as well. And thank you
1:57.6	so much for sending me an advance copy of your book, cleaning up your mental mess.
2:02.5	I've thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
2:05.5	And I think I was most impressed by the fact that you took complex principles and broke them down into really simple strategies that people can start applying to their lives right away.
2:18.2	Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, that's what I've been trying to do for 38 years and 25
2:22.9	years in clinical practice. If you don't make it simple, people won't use it.
2:27.5	Exactly. And so maybe we can start by talking about what happens when we don't use our minds
2:33.1	correctly?
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