Emotional Healing: How to Put Yourself Back Together Again

by Harry Barry

In this instructive and uplifting narrative, Dr. Barry explores how to recover from loss, trauma, grief, and loneliness by helping readers identify their emotions and providing the steps to emotionally heal yourself.

When we experience trauma, loss or grief the pain can feel as if it will last forever. We begin to wonder if our old selves—the ones who felt hope and happiness and joy—are lost to us. And our emotions can lead us into damaging behaviours that compound our problems. Dr Harry Barry acknowledges there is no magic wand that will take our pain away completely, but he uses his clinical experience, combined with cognitive behavioural therapy, to show that emotional healing is always possible.

You can put yourself back together with the simple exercises and straightforward advice that have helped countless others. Healing is the process of restoring the healthy mind and body of someone in distress, and Dr. Barry offers a holistic approach to the whole person.

Emotional Healing is a practical, compassionate companion for anyone who feels that their emotional wounds are preventing them from fully embracing life. Learn to feel like yourself again.

Genres: Self Help

320 pages, Hardcover

Published March 2, 2021

Reviews

[C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Emotional Healing is a brilliant book. A powerful study of how to deal with the emotions we often overlook, suppress, or don't understand. The text is full of case studies, examples of how triggers can present, techniques for self-direction as well as suggestions for when other options and hel0 should be persued

The ABC, self-rating, turtle, and many techniques are easy to implement. The breakdown of different levels of stress, anxiety, anger, shame, depression, emotions, trauma, and grief were insightful. This book does an excellent job of allowing you to look within as well as see concerning behaviors in others.

My concerns about recommending this book to others is the occasional reference to self-harm. If you do not know where someone is on the spectrum of mental health, I think this book could be a trigger and a questionable choice. I took copious notes and truly enjoyed the breadth of information provided.

It's a book that educates, alerts, and requires a willing participant. 4.5

[Charlotte Falkner · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you have literally NEVER been in CBT or any other type of therapy, this book may be exactly the handbook you need to get started digging into your various issues. It covers many topics. It also has short, manageable sections and sort of "action plans" for you to work on. I have never, ever been a fan of personal stories or "case studies" in any book, on any topic. While I understand many people find that sort of storytelling approach useful, I just hate it with the heat of a thousand suns. There's a lot of those in this book. Otherwise, I'd recommend this as a good place to start for anybody examining their life for the first time.

[Melody Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

I appreciate how this can be clearly laid out and have stories of others and how they use these techniques to cope.

still can be really frustrating when it has to be in the abstract, after all this isn't a 1:1 therapy session or anything, and you are struggling to find a way that your particular struggle fits in.

still, even if it seems a bit hard to self reflect in a book that is attempting to guide you with your introspection and future reactions, it is still a good guide.

would recommend

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm far from healed, but I did pick up a number of great tips for how to work on myself.