It's Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

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Peppered with powerful real life examples of her patients and even her own struggles, the change triangle is shown in action again and again.

I strongly believe it is essential reading for everyone and anyone who wants to live an emotionally healthy and fulfilling life. Jacobs Hendel led these patients and others toward lives newly capable of joy and fulfillment through an empathic and effective therapeutic approach that draws on the latest science about the healing power of our emotions. She introduces us to The Change Triangle, a conceptual tool, a map, to understand our emotions and discover what we are doing with them that limit our awareness and growth.I do have some misgivings about the way the core message elides material and structural considerations (classism, racism, sexism, etc. He had tried several medication “cocktails,” each with a litany of side effects that made them virtually intolerable.

Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiety and depression, and discover your authentic self. In my opinion, this is more like a book that you read if you were a neurotic but not enough to the point that you can't function in your daily life, or it inhibits you from fulfilling your day to day duties/responsibilities, etc. Prior to reading the book I had not read Hilary's article in the NYT or anything by Diane Fosha but I was aware of the existence of AEDP, just not the details.

The only reason I gave this book a 2/5 rather than a 1/5 is I liked that Hendel made a distinction between small-t "trauma" and big-T "Trauma.

I thought there would be useful strategies for getting to the root of your problems with tips to alleviate any mental illness you have. This book may be useful for those who lack even the slightest bit of self-awareness but I am not that person. You do n0t have to act on emotions, and in most cases, you probably won't, but the information these impulses give you is important.Those were really helpful in seeing how the triangle plays out, but I really could have used a bit more time dedicated to understanding the parts of the triangle better.

Many psychotherapies focus on the content of the stories that people tell about themselves, looking for insights that can be used to fix what’s wrong.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I’m glad I bought this book as it’s helping me on my healing journey, some things aren’t just depression so it’s good to hear what else we need to consider, what else could be the problem, this book helps you to look at other root causes to your suffering and it’s full of tools, ideas and tips that can help you heal. Tikrai jokia paslaptis, kad mėgstu savęs pažinimo knygas ir tikiu, jog tai kelias į laimingesnį gyvenimą.