Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking
Ebook
Overview
Take charge of your runaway thoughts!
Toxic thoughts, depression, anxiety--our mental mess is frequently aggravated by a chaotic world and sustained by an inability to manage our thought life. But we shouldn’t settle into this mental mess as if it’s a new normal.
Backed by clinical research and illustrated with compelling case studies, Dr. Caroline Leaf provides a scientifically proven five-step plan, the Neurocycle, to help you
● find and eliminate the root of anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts in your life
● experience dramatically improved mental and physical health
● move forward toward wholeness, peace, and happiness
There’s hope and help available to us--and the road to healthier thoughts and peak happiness may actually be shorter than you think.
From the Back Cover
Simple and scientific solutions to overcome unhealthy thinking
"Dr. Caroline Leaf is a brilliant and prolific communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist. With over thirty years in research and study, she delves into Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess with these five simple steps to help reduce our anxieties, stress, and toxic thinking. There is no better time to introduce these strategies than now."--Bishop T. D. Jakes, New York Times bestselling author
"Caroline’s new book is a lovely chance for us to learn a new modality of healing. The techniques taught in Caroline’s work have allowed me to work on myself in new ways that allow me to be more calm, clear, and compassionate."-- Jonathan Van Ness, Emmy-nominated television personality, hairstylist, self-care guru, New York Times bestselling author, and host of the Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness podcast
"For years I’ve taught leaders to guard their thinking above all else in life, because how a leader thinks determines what a leader will accomplish. Healthy discipline of the mind is essential for success in life, and Dr. Caroline Leaf provides a five-step roadmap for developing truly helpful mental discipline. Her new book, Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess, is rooted in decades of research and shows how the journey to healthier thinking is shorter than you might think--and available to anyone willing to take it."--Dr. John C. Maxwell, leadership and personal growth expert
"One of the things I love about Caroline is her help in understanding the difference in our ‘brains’ and our ‘minds.’ In this book she takes us the next step in making both of them work better, leading us to feeling and performing better. Thanks, Caroline."--Dr. Henry Cloud, New York Times bestselling author and clinical psychologist
"Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess is a powerful new book that can change your life. Learning how to manage your mind is a critical skill that should be taught in school, yet rarely is. This book can help decrease suffering and help your overall outlook and mood. I highly recommend it."--Daniel G. Amen, MD, founder of Amen Clinics and author of The End of Mental Illness
- Title: Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking
- Author: Caroline Leaf
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781493424016, 9780801093456, 0801093457, 1493424017
- Resource ID: LLS:9781493424016
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-13T16:38:19Z
Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and clinical neuroscientist whose passion is to help people see the power of the mind to change the brain and find their purpose in life. She is the USA Today bestselling author of Switch On Your Brain, Think and Eat Yourself Smart, The Perfect You, Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess, and How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess, among many other books and journal articles, and her videos, podcasts, and TV episodes have reached millions globally. She currently teaches at various academic, medical, and neuroscience conferences, as well as in churches around the world.