Healing through the Dark Emotions

Greenspan writes intensely and compassionately. This is a committed, serious look at the emotions most of us would rather sweep under the rug. -- Publishers Weekly <br> The gold standard of books on difficult emotions. This book has the power to heal and change your life and the way you live it. --Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom <p><br> A crucial book that teaches us to alter fundamentally our fearful relationship to deep feelings. --Kim Chernin, Los Angeles Times <p><br> A book of remarkable depth. The author is a brilliant thinker and a natural storyteller. I've read countless books about the difficult emotions. None is as helpful and riveting as this one--or offers as much hope for our personal suffering and turbulent times. --Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger <p><br> A modern day alchemist, Greenspan teaches us to turn our pain into wisdom and our fear and sorrow into energy to improve the world. She offers us a clear and profound analysis of what we must do as individuals and as a species to survive these troubled times. --Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls <p><br> This remarkable book has taught me a whole new way of thinking. --Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People <p><br> A beautiful piece of work destined to become a perennial classic. --Martha Beck, author of Expecting Adam and The Joy Diet <p><br> This is a beautifully written, deeply compassionate, and revolutionary approach to working with the most difficult human emotions. Miriam Greenspan teaches us how to trust our emotions and how to listen to hear the truth they reveal. This is a practical guide that illuminates how the wisdom of the heart can heal ourselves, each other, and our world. --Janet Surrey, Ph.D., founding scholar of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Stone Center, Wellesle