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Today my guest is Dr. Lisa Vonsustrin. Lisa is a psychiatrist in private practice in

Washington, D.C. and she served as an assistant clinical professor of

psychiatry at Georgetown University.

Along with her writing partner, Stacy Kalino, they've written a very helpful and

useful new book called Emotional Inflamm

Discover your triggers and reclaim your equilibrium during anxious times.

Believe it or not, this book was conceived of and written before the COVID-19 global

pandemic, and yet it addresses the emotional challenges many of us

are feeling right now in a very helpful and direct way.

Listen here to Dr. Lisa Van Sustrin.

Lisa, I want to begin by talking about the title of your new book, Emotional Inflamm. You write right in the

introduction of the book that this is the name for many people of how we've been feeling and as I encounter those words emotional

inflammation I thought yeah that is the name that's the name but what is it so

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