Understand your mind
Understand your mind: Keys to navigate through storms, is a self-help and personal improvement book written by Mónica González, Luis Muiño and Molo Cebrián —a coach, a psychologist and a journalist, respectively. The work was published in 2022 by the Aguilar publishing house, to celebrate the great success of the psychology podcast Understand your mind, the most listened to in Spanish.
This program, aimed at a series of tips that aim to help people understand everything that goes through their heads, It has a quite enviable acceptance, producing more than 250.000 downloads per month. In honor of that, the publisher approached them with the possibility of writing a book compiling the most popular advice from their channel, and the team was quick to wait.
Synopsis of Understand your mind
How did the idea for the book come about?
Understand your mind It is a podcast taken to letters. Therefore, its content is similar to the program. Journalist, producer and psychology student Molo Cebrián was tired of listening to interviews about mental well-being led by “perfect” and constantly happy people. The podcaster also often says that he never felt very identified with these presenters, so he made the decision to create a different space.
Later, Cebrián contacted the coach Mónica González and the psychotherapist Luis MuiñoWho They became his most faithful adventure companions., since everyone has a different point of view, and each one contributes their knowledge to the program. Five years later they are still together, and co-wrote a book to celebrate the life of the most listened to psychology podcast in the Iberian country.
About imperfect people
Molo Cebrián has commented in several interviews that, To put together the themes of the book, they made a list of all the videos they had made so far. Then, they chose thirty of them and then discarded some.
Subsequently, Each classmate contributed a topic they wanted to talk about., in addition, of course, to very popular topics that his audience constantly requested. In this way, questions such as: Can we be more assertive in our communication with others?
Other questions found in Understand your mind are: “How can we stop anticipating in the negative?” “How do we get out of a toxic relationship?”, “What is love and how does it affect our body and mind?”, and “How can we manage stress?”
Just like in the podcast, All these topics are treated with a focus on the reader.. Therefore, what an ordinary person could experience, do, feel or think is taken into account.
Learn to live in the present
The book cover features a head with a key-shaped indentation. When closed, it is supposed to click, creating a metaphor that the reader can decide what to do with the information displayed in Understand your mind. In this sense, the merit of each person's progress is given solely to him or her. Authors see themselves as allies who are dedicated to accompanying readers in their emotional processes.
Likewise, Understand your mind proposes some reflections that, according to the writers, They intend to move the heads of those who read. That is to say: somehow change people's perspective for the better. At the same time, Mónica González, Luis Muiño and Molo Cebrián explain that they would like their readers to take their book as a membership card for their club: that of imperfect people, those who have defects, those who are one of the crowd and feel satisfied with that.
The exclusion of negative emotions
Platforms like Instagram have accustomed users to only showing the positive side of their life, and to leave aside those circumstances and feelings of negative quality, such as sadness or anger. Not expressing dark emotions is a mistake that ends up hurting those who suffer from them., generating diseases such as anxiety or depression. Mónica González, Luis Muiño and Molo Cebrián assert that the expression of the entire emotional spectrum is extremely important.
To do this, one of his first pieces of advice is acceptance, learning to love yourself just the way you are. Understand your mind es a practical text brought to the public by three friends. They hope to help some people get out of those mental problems that we all have from time to time, such as insecurity, lack of self-perception and self-demand.
As well They facilitate how to assume conflicts derived from social criticism and destructive self-criticism., time management for oneself, self-love and the ability to free oneself from the stigmas imposed by others.
About the authors
Luis Muiño Martínez
Luis was born in 1967, in Spain. He has dedicated most of his life to collaborating in missions to help children seeking asylum, women who practice prostitution in El Salvador, and refugees in Kosovo. Besides, He has appeared as a sideman on multiple radio shows, such as The human factor from Radio 5 of National Radio of Spain, together with the psychologist Florentino Moreno. Currently, he is dedicated to psychotherapy and the dissemination of psychological theory, mental well-being and emotional support.
Molo Cebrian
Is a Spanish communicator, producer and psychology student. During his beginnings as a university student, he felt very attracted to Self Help and self-improvement, but it wasn't until about seven years ago that he seriously began his studies in mental health. Meanwhile, she created the program Understand your mind along with his colleagues Mónica González and Luis Muiño, enjoying great success in this and other podcasts.
Mónica González
Monica is An engineer, coach and Spanish university professor. Within Understand your mind, she is the one who handles most of the issues related to Emotional problems related to love. On her Instagram account, the counselor usually shares tips and reflections to help all types of people, managing to accumulate 13,9 thousand followers, who love to express her own experiences.