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You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today, my guest is Dr. Lisa von Sustrin.

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, Stacey Colino. They've written a very helpful and

useful new book called Emotional Inflammation, 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 von Sustrin.

Lisa, I want to begin by talking about the title of your new book, Emotional Inflammation.

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 encountered those words, emotional inflammation,

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