You Know the Feeling

It is 3 AM. You are wide awake, staring at the ceiling, as this continuous cycle goes on in your mind: “I am not good enough. What if I fail? What will they think of me? Why can’t I pull myself together?”

This voice that is criticizing you, doubting you, and keeping you small has a name. It is called noise. In a new book called “Cancel the Noise,” clinical psychologist Dr. Vedrana Mladina tells you why you do not have to live with it forever.

What If You Could Press Mute?

Noise is something we’ve all experienced before. It’s the voice that tells us we aren’t good enough. The boss who doesn’t believe in us, the relatives who are critical, and the toxic friends who put us down. The inner sense of shame that asks, “Who do you think you are?”

Dr. Mladina, a clinical psychologist who has spent many years in her field listening to patients’ voices, has heard the same things. In addition to that, she has heard them inside her head. But she has realized one thing, noise is temporary. It can be cancelled.

The Noise-Cancelling Headphones for Your Mind

Consider the magic of noise-canceling headphones. You are in a crowded, noisy place, but with just one flick of a switch, you find yourself in an oasis of silence. All that noise is around you, but you are now oblivious to it.

Similarly, the “Cancel the Noise” technique allows you to apply this principle to your thoughts. The method created by Dr. Mladina does not involve ignoring issues, it’s a form of denial. Instead, you acknowledge the noise, its origin, and choose to ignore it.

“Canceling the noise does not mean ignoring it,” writes Dr. Mladina. “It means recognizing the nature of the noise, it is unwanted, annoying, and disturbing, and making a decision to neutralize it.”

Where Does Your Noise Come From?

This book opens with an important question: Where is your noise coming from?

Noise comes from one’s childhood, with those words said by our parents, teachers, and friends that were absorbed into beliefs. Noise can come from today, with our critical bosses, hard-to-deal-with partners, or from scrolling through comparisons on social media. And there is the kind of noise that is projected upon us by other people because they are struggling with their own chaos.

With Dr. Mladina, the reader learns how to create one’s own “inventory” of noise, separating what is important from what is not and protecting oneself without isolating the loved ones.

“People and things don’t make themselves important,” she explains. “We make them important, or unimportant, for us. The key is in our hands.”

From Self-Doubt to Self-Compassion

What makes Cancel the Noise unique from other self-help books? It’s deeply practical. Each chapter deals with a specific kind of noise, decision-making noise, happiness noise, “you can’t do it” noise, relationship noise, guilt and shame noise, and provides concrete, step-by-step exercises to quiet it.

Tools that Dr. Mladina shares with readers include:

● The CIA Stress Management Model (control, influence, accept), which enables you to concentrate on those things you can change and let go of the things you cannot change.

● The 24-Hour Rule, which enables you to experience the noise for one day and then let it go.

● The Noise Tolerance Window, which shows the types of noise that are tolerable and intolerable.

● Creating A Soundproof Mind, establishing mental defenses that shield you from your peace.

At the core of everything there is self-compassion. Dr. Mladina relies on Dr. Kristin Neff’s teachings to show how one can transform self-criticism into compassion, judgment into empathy, and shame into acceptance.

Who Needs This Book?

Cancel the Noise speaks to anyone who has ever:

● Lay awake at night thinking about some painful conversation.

● Avoided pursuing a dream because of fear or failure.

● Stayed in a toxic relationship because they were afraid of being alone

● Felt paralyzed by taking decision

● Compared themselves to others on social media and felt not inadequate

● Struggles with the pressure to be happy, successful, and perfect.

It’s for the overthinker, the people-pleaser, the perfectionist, and anyone who felt like thay are not worthy.

About the Author

Dr. Vedrana Mladina, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who has years of experience working with people to overcome their challenges in dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, and low self-esteem. Her therapy is very practical, research-based, and highly humanistic, combining scientific information with real-world examples and useful advice.

“I wanted to write a book that would give people my tools from therapy, because life doesn’t happen only during therapy sessions,” says Dr. Mladina. “Everybody needs to learn how to control their own mind.”

This book is her first book, a project she has been thinking about for a while because of her work, personal experiences, and her conviction that everybody deserves peace in their head.

Availability

Cancel the Noise is available for pre-order now on Amazon. The official book launch is scheduled for July 06, 2026.

Stay tuned for updates on author events, interviews, and more!

Contact

For interview requests, review copies, or more information, please contact: The Empire Publishers.

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