Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess

5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking

By: Dr. Caroline Leaf

Narrated by: Caroline Leaf

Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

A best-selling author and neuroscientist offers five proven steps to help you overcome the unhealthy thinking habits that contribute to anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts and replace them with positive thinking that leads to health, happiness, and success.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Caroline Leaf (P)2021 Recorded Books

Cool research, but very repetitive

Like another reviewer mentioned, the content in this audiobook is very repetitive--to the point that I wondered if I should continue at some points. Aside from that, the content does share a helpful method for reframing negative thoughts along with practical examples of how to do so. But I can't help wishing it were more concise and cut out all of the fluff. I think the author's YouTube videos on the topic of neurocycling are better in that respect.

Hire a Professional Narrator

I like the ideas in a book. However I found it a lot of work to listen to. The author should’ve hired a professional narrator. Her accent is hard to decipher, The delivery is amateurish, and the quality of the recording is poor.

Helpful, but slooooooow…

Good information, but one must wade through about half of the information telling us “why” the information is needed and good. Enough of trying to convince me already and please get on with the instruction! Loose a star.
Next, this is a perfect example of why the author should hire someone else to read their book. It was brutal trying to listen to what sounds like a polite and foreign kindergarten teacher… very difficult to relate to the author.
Please ask Dr. Jordan Peterson to read for you. Loose another star.

This entire process of how to use the neurocylcle can be reduced to a single chapter.

A must read for trauma issues

The most sensible help for people who have or are dealing with trauma issues instead of just putting them on drugs and giving them a coloring book. Thank you for your studies, research, and your time with this audio book.

An excellent , evidenced based method to reclaim your thought life

I really enjoyed Dr. Caroline Leaf reading this audiobook. I have learned a lot about my thought life. I was given a plan to reclaim it. Thank you Dr. Leaf for your research, methodology, and willingness to share this information.

Content was good. Not so happy with delivery

This is a book I have always wanted to read. So it became my first choice on Audible. The message of the book seems to be good. However, it was so repetitive. The voice/accent of the speaker made it hard to listen and she spoke so fast I could hardly pick up on the points she was making. Added to that she included some technical terms that needed to be explained to the average reader. I don't regret selecting it, but I needed a more suitable audio delivery.

joy

Life-changing, Must read!!!

This book is for high performers, go-getters, driven people, depressed people, people who are bored with life and honestly everyone.... 😃

Dr Caroline leaf is a freaking genius and will help you with your raw and real stuff!!

She could be the breakthrough that you've been looking for. I know that Dr Caroline Leaf's work is what I've been looking for and I'm having breakthrough daily doing her neural cycles 🤯, reading all of her books, and learning from her as much as I can!! She is my hero and is changing my life. I will never be the same and I highly recommend this book to everyone who wants to break toxic habits, toxic thought patterns, get breakthrough in cycles that you've had forever, and trauma from the past.

Guaranteed your life will never be the same if you apply what she shares in this book!! ❤️❤️

Love the distinction between mind and brain

Cutting edge framework for describing what a human being is and how we function with the use of our brain as a tool. We are 90 to 99 percent mind she says, and to distinguish it as separate from our brain is a crucial distinction in understanding ourselves.

love the last few chapters

loved the last chapters, the first few chapters were hard to get through. a bit too repetitive and hard to understand the science part of it. But the actual info in the last chapters was great, can't wait to try it.

I loved it.

I could feel the passion the author has for sharing her knowledge and help people.