Caroline’s book, Cleaning up Your Mental Mess.ĥ SIMPLE STEPS TO REDUCE ANXIETY, STRESS, & TOXIC THOUGHTS There is tremendous power on the inside of us and that is what Caroline wants to impress upon people with her work.
Prescribing a drug for mental illness is not always the solution. Yes is it scary, it makes sense that we have major mental chaos, but very few are teaching people how to clean it up. This is a normal response to very adverse circumstances. People are becoming more anxious, depressed, and stressed. In current times, it is no wonder there is an increase in mental health concerns. 
You can develop your mind and change your brain as a result. Your mind is as malleable as your muscles. So if your mind is always working and changing, that means your brain is always changing, but can you control that process? Yes. You can go 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, 3 minutes without oxygen, but you don’t even go 3 seconds without using your mind. The mind-brain integration is separate but inseparable. We have to come back to look at the influence that we have as humans over our biology and the inseparable relationship. Around the mid ‘90s people began to understand that the brain could change, but the language gave more focus to the brain and not the mind. Her work was some of the first neuroplasticity research in her field. In the ’80s, Caroline’s research from working with people with head injuries and learning challenges showed that if you directly and intentionally develop your mind, you can actually change your brain because your mind is malleable and trainable. She was really driven by her initial research when others believed that the brain could not be changed. For 38 years, Caroline has done the research to understand what the mind is, if it can be managed or changed, what thought, memory, and emotion are, how they are all connected, and how much control we have. 
There is not enough discussion of the mind, what it is, and how it works. You wake up, go to sleep, eat with, get dressed with, and listen with your mind. This is how we get into experiencing mental mess. 
When you take such a reductionistic approach, you don’t allow the person to fully experience who they are.
We’ve moved from looking at people as humans and their whole story to seeing humans as part of a biological system as if, for example, you are your brain and that is not the case.It seems like we are drawing in stress and anxiety brought on by media and the current state of the pandemic.
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