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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Narrated by:
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Hilary Jacobs Hendel
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Cassandra Campbell
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Written by:
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Diana Fosha - foreword
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Hilary Jacobs Hendel
About this listen
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 empathic and effective therapeutic approach that draws on the latest science about the healing power of our emotions.
Whereas conventional therapy encourages patients to talk through past events that may trigger anxiety and depression, accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), the method practiced by Jacobs Hendel and pioneered by Diana Fosha, PhD, teaches us to identify the defenses and inhibitory emotions (shame, guilt, and anxiety) that block core emotions (anger, sadness, fear, disgust, joy, excitement, and sexual excitement). Fully experiencing core emotions allows us to enter an openhearted state where we are calm, curious, connected, compassionate, confident, courageous, and clear.
In It's Not Always Depression, Jacobs Hendel shares a unique and pragmatic tool called the Change Triangle - a guide to carry you from a place of disconnection back to your true self. In this audiobook, Jacobs Hendel teaches lay listeners and helping professionals alike:
- Why all emotions - even the most painful ones - have value.
- How to identify emotions and the defenses we put up against them.
- How to get to the root of anxiety - the most common mental illness of our time.
- How to have compassion for the child you were and the adult you are.
Jacobs Hendel provides navigational tools, body and thought exercises, candid personal anecdotes, and profound insights gleaned from her patients' remarkable breakthroughs. She shows us how to work the Change Triangle in our everyday lives and chart a deeply personal, powerful, and hopeful course to psychological well-being and emotional engagement.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2018 Hilary Jacobs Hendel (P)2018 Random House AudioWhat listeners say about It's Not Always Depression
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-01-13
very helpful tool
i recommend this book to every human that has emotions and wants to understand
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- Tanya Crocker
- 2020-01-09
an exceptional tool
the shift out of head and into the body has been profound for me. this is a practical tool that enables someone to do just that.
very worth the time to read or listen to this.
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- Jessica Pino
- 2019-11-30
Very helpful!
I have used this in my practice and for myself ! Highly recommend this book for anyone
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- rpwoods
- 2020-02-02
Excellent book for therapists and clients!
This book is very helpful in beginning to understand AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) and basic emotional neuroscience. It lead me on a path as a therapist to become a trained AEDP therapist. I suggest clients read it after read Ronald Frederick’s book Living Like You Mean It (also available on audible).
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-06-05
Super useful and easy read
Great ideas. Tangible. Easy to digest. This was a great read for anyone who wants to better understand the value of their emotions.
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- KP
- 2019-06-22
Such a powerful tool!
I judge that I’ll be re-listening to this many time over the next few years. I find it SO useful for myself—someone who’s struggled with depression, anxiety, and an inability to identify my feelings for ~20 years! The change triangle works.
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- Victoria
- 2019-07-03
This book changed my life!
This book changed my life for the better. I learned about an excellent tool that I will be using everyday!
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- Anne
- 2022-10-19
Great book, mediocre reader
I have a physical copy of this book and I love it. I wanted to listen to the book but found the reader very monotone. I couldn't pay attention and regret getting the audiobook.
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- CeeBee
- 2019-06-12
very robotic and hard to listen to
the narrator sounded like a robotic and it was hard to pay attention. probably some good content but hard to stay engaged
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- Heather Humble
- 2024-07-12
not about depression, not helpful
I got this book because the title really spoke to me, but the only time the author actually talks about depression was when she told a story about how she was depressed and took anti depressants.
This is one of the few books in my life that I genuinely regret reading. I feel like she really minimizes traumatic experiences like abuse, coining them "little t trauma" despite the fact that this type of trauma tends to be more damaging and difficult to treat. Ancedotes where she encourages violent fantasies, including murder are extremely truggering. Also, she says things like, "it's hard to believe but some people actually think..." which is really alienating when you are the person who apparently thinks wrong. Every so often she would say something that peaked my interest, like you should only feel an emotion for a couple minutes, but then she would not elaborate or give helpful information if this is not your experience. I slogged through the whole book, hoping that by the end she would tie all the loose threads and leave me with something coherent and actionable, but that did not happen.
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