Take Back Control of Your Emotions, an Interview with Dr. Caroline Leaf | Recovery
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Dr. Adi and Sophie Jaffe
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🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this week, neuroscientist and author Dr. Caroline Leaf joined us to explain her 5 steps to clearing up your “mental mess”. Through her work, Dr. Leaf has helped countless people overcome cycles of unhelpful thought patterns and negative emotions. In this episode, Adi sits down with Dr. Leaf for an in-depth discussion of mental health, addiction, and her new book, Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking, a deep dive into the steps that you can take to find and eliminate the causes of your anxiety, depression, and unwanted thoughts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ignited Recovery podcast, a new way forward for anyone looking for answers but feeling left out. |
| 0:10.2 | If you've been searching for empowerment, triumph, and purpose, you've found them right here. |
| 0:15.8 | You won't hear the same solutions and you're not going to have any excuses to fall back on because |
| 0:21.0 | ignited recovery allows heroes to rise and become their best selves. I'm Dr. Adi Jaffe |
| 0:27.8 | and I can't wait to be your guide on this journey. Are you ready to become an ignited hero? I love every time we get to talk. |
| 0:43.8 | It's always a beautiful conversation. |
| 0:46.5 | And in the middle of this universal mess, you just put out a new book about your mental mess. |
| 0:53.8 | Exactly. How did I know that? How did I know that? |
| 0:57.0 | How did you know? I mean, I think if everybody out there wasn't quite clear on the fact that |
| 1:03.6 | sometimes they had a mental mess going on in their head, many, many more of us are aware right now. |
| 1:10.2 | So I want to hear from you. |
| 1:11.8 | Obviously, you're such a prolific writer. |
| 1:14.0 | You've done so much. |
| 1:14.8 | What made you write this book and what made this one special? |
| 1:18.3 | Well, I think what's really special about it is that the fact that we all as humans are battling with our mind all the time and be making mental messes all the time. |
| 1:27.1 | And I want to try and help make, help people understand that this is who we are. are battling with our mind all the time and be making mental messes all the time. |
| 1:32.4 | And I wanted to try and help make, help people understand that this is who we are as humans and we can do something about it. |
| 1:34.1 | Because I think the current, you know, you and I both know from the current approach to |
| 1:37.4 | mental health, it's a scary approach where you get identified with a label and told you |
| 1:42.7 | have this neuropsychiatric brain disease. |
| 1:44.7 | And you kind of feel hopeless and out of control. |
| 1:47.3 | And you take your empowerment and hope is taken away. |
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