Hello, this is Emma Ganon and thank you for listening to this podcast. I just wanted to let you know that my new book, The Success Myth, Letting Go of Having It All, is out on May the 18th.

I think it's my best book yet, so I'm excited for it to come out. And the book unpicks the eight success myths from happiness to money, to productivity, to celebrity, to the idea of finally arriving.

And how chasing a version of success that doesn't align with your values can really take you off track and this book is about getting back to yourself.

Breaking free, finding a new way forward, and it's available on May the 18th. If you love this podcast, you'll love the book.

And it's available soon from all good bookshops, so you can order yours now. I hope you like it.

Hello and welcome back to Control Out Delete. Today is a replay with the brilliant psychologist, Dr Emma Hepburn.

She has over 15 years experience of working with and treating mental health difficulties.

She's also someone I've been following on Instagram for years. She's at the psychology mum over there if you want to check out her work or you probably are already.

She's just got such a warm and welcoming and accessible way of talking about mental wellbeing, which I absolutely love.

In this episode, we talk about her book, A Toolkit for Modern Life, which really is a toolkit for basically everything you need to know about looking after your mind.

This book shows that we can understand our brains better and we can be more self compassionate to ourselves.

So we just need to know how and she shows this through really brilliant illustrations as well to bring it all to life.

She's also the author of A Toolkit for Happiness and she has a new book that's coming up soon called A Toolkit for Your Emotions.

53 ways to feel better, which is out in January 2023, so keep your eyes out for that one.

Hope you enjoy this episode. Here it is.

Hopefully I haven't bombarded you too much, but I remember years ago, I think I asked you about fear of flying and my anxieties around flying.

And you really helped me in like a paragraph of writing. So so thrilled about your book. It's just amazing.

Oh, thank you very much. Well, it's great to be here. Thank you for having me on your podcast. It's something I've listened to many times over the last few years. So it's very exciting to be on it.

But when did you have the first idea for the book because I feel like it's come out at the best time if the people?

Absolutely. Well, it was before anybody had heard of COVID. So September last year and the publisher got in touch with me and I was actually sitting exams at the time.

So I didn't have any capacity to think about writing a book, but I did start studying for exams procrastinated by thinking what would I like to write about.

I thought, well, I really want the whole point to my Instagram page is to make mental health concepts accessible, but also make them usable so that you can use them in your everyday life so that you can look after your mental health.

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