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A game-changing approach to emotional health and well-being After suffering profound tragedy in her teens and coping by suppressing the emotions, Rachel Kaplan began a journey of study, therapy, and eventual breakthrough. She knows from experience that many of us avoid actually feeling our feelings. Instead, we store them in a kind of emotional constipation, chasing distraction, addiction, and other forms of suppression. The only way to heal and to live healthier, happier lives is to move the emotions through our bodies. Kaplan presents a revolutionary and irreverent approach to personal transformation and self-care that teaches you precisely how to feel emotions - and release them as nature intended. Doing so is the definitive means for establishing a baseline of well-being and self-trust and overcoming the debilitating effects of core wounds, chronic stress, depression, and backlogged emotional pain.
About the Author
Rachel Kaplan is the lead author of Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living. She lives in Northern California where she works as a somatic psychotherapist, educator, permaculture designer and mother. For twenty years, she was a performing artist and director in San Francisco's active artist's community, and toured and taught her work throughout the United States and Europe. She has studied herbalism, Yoga, contemplative movement and mindfulness, trauma release, conflict resolution and mediation, as well as the wide range of heirloom homesteading skills. She has two Masters degrees, one in Inter-disciplinary Arts, and the other in Counseling Psychology; she holds a license as a Marriage and Family therapist in the State of California. She is a certified permaculture designer, and has trained extensively in somatics and the expressive arts. She authored and self-published two books of performance works, The Probable Site of the Garden of Eden, and Diaspora: Stories from the Cities, and enjoyed a special relationship with dance luminary Anna Halprin, as her writer and amanuensis. She lives with her partner and their daughter and their chickens and bees and rabbits on a homestead they call Tiny Town Farm.
