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Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Maze. A podcast dedicated to helping you clean up the toxic thinking with simple and scientific strategies.

In today's podcast I'm really excited because I'm actually going to walk through a neuropsychil with you and neuropsychil to help you deal with stress and burnout.

What is a neuropsychil? Well, a neuropsychil that I talk about in my newest book which I'm really excited about as well, which is on pre-order called Cleaning Up Your Mental Maze, like this podcast.

Okay, and this book I walk you through five simple scientifically proven steps to reduce anxiety stress and toxic thinking. It's available for pre-order at the moment and you can go to CleaningUpYourMentalMaze.com to pre-order.

Anywhere where books are sold and there's a whole bunch of bonus chapters where you reorder, bonus, I mean there's a book club, there's a chapter for your kids, wonderful content to help you and I'll tell you more about that as we're going along.

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