Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises help you connect to healing
emotions, ease anxiety and depression, and discover your authentic self. Sara
suffered a debilitating fear of asserting herself. Spencer experienced crippling
social anxiety. Bonnie was shut down, disconnected from her feelings. These
patients all came to psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel seeking treatment for
depression, but in fact none of them were chemically depressed. Rather, Jacobs
Hendel found that they'd all experienced traumas in their youth that caused them
to put up emotional defenses that masqueraded as symptoms of depression. Jacobs
Hendel led these patients and others toward lives newly capable of joy and
fulfillment through an