Healing through the dark emotions : the wisdom of grief, fear and despair

✍ Scribed by Greenspan, Miriam

Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 336
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Weare all touched at some point by the dark emotions of grief, fear, or despair.In an age of global threat, these emotions have become widespread andoverwhelming. While conventional wisdom warns us of the harmful effects of"negative" emotions, this revolutionary book offers a more hopefulview: there is a redemptive power in our worst feelings. Seasonedpsychotherapist Miriam Greenspan argues that it's the avoidance and denial ofthe dark emotions that results in the escalating psychological disorders of ourtime: depression, anxiety, addiction, psychic numbing, and irrational violence.And she shows us how to trust the wisdom of the dark emotions to guide, heal,and transform our lives and our world.

Drawingon inspiring stories from her psychotherapy practice and personal life, andincluding a complete set of emotional exercises, Greenspan teaches the art ofemotional alchemy by which grief turns to gratitude, fear opens the door tojoy, and despair becomes the ground...

✦ Subjects

Emotions.;Suffering.

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