Hi everyone and welcome to Coach's Corner. If you ever struggle with anxiety or depression

or have been labeled as depressed or ADD or have any kind of mental illness struggles

or labels or just are freaking human and have anxiety and obsessive thoughts from time to

time or maybe a lot of the time you are going to love today's episode. I heard Dr. Leif

for the first time on my friend Sean's podcast The Model Hell Show and I was just so blown away

by both her compassion and her intelligence and I had to have her on the show. Dr. Caroline Leif

is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist. Since the early 1980s she has

researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health and the formation of memory.

She was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change, it's called neuroplasticity,

with directed mind input. During her years in clinical practice and her work with thousands of

underprivileged teachers and students in her home country of South Africa and in the USA,

she developed her theory of how we think, build memory and learn,

creating practical guides and tools that have transformed the lives of hundreds and thousands

of individuals with traumatic brain injuries, learning disabilities, autism dementia,

mental health issues like anxiety and depression and on and on. Dr. Leif's podcast,

Cleaning Up the Mental Mass, YouTube videos and TV appearances have reached millions globally.

She also has a new book out called Cleaning Up Your Mental Mass, which I got a lot of value out of.

Now I want to tell you something before you listen to this interview. Dr. Leif is incredibly smart

and passionate and she knows her stuff and a lot of this stuff is new to us. We're really learning

about the brain and the mind and do you know that the mind and the brain are two separate things?

She's going to explain that. So you might have to slow it down, you might have to go back and go

wait, I don't know if I totally got that, I have to go back. But if you really take the time to

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