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May 2025
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We Aren’t Our Thoughts! Simple Steps to ...

MAYIM BIALIK
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For Mental Health Awareness Month, we are releasing a special episode! New York Times bestselling author of “Don't Believe Everything You Think” Joseph Nguyen joins us to break down how to find your inner peace. He gives tips on how to stop overthinking, achieve better mental clarity and elaborates on his teachings on how to surrender and start letting go. He will show you how to have more effective meditation practices, why your current meditation practice might not be working, and how he adapted his practice from the meditation teachings of other experts. Plus! He reveals how he hit his rock bottom, the life transformation he made to stop suffering, and how he paid off his family’s debt. This episode will provide you with tools to cope with anxiety, recover from burnout, and manage workplace stress. From our Breakdown to the one we hope you never have, we wish you a well and healthy Mental Health Awareness Month!

 

The expanded edition of Joseph Nguyen's book, Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking is the Beginning and End of Suffering: https://josephnguyen.org/collections/books/products/dont-believe-everything-you-think-expanded-edition-why-your-thinking-is-the-beginning-end-of-suffering

 

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