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Unlocked

25 Keys to Recovering from Depression, Anxiety or Bipolar Disorder

by Emily Grossman
Emily Grossman
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Being diagnosed with depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder can create suffering that goes far beyond the symptoms of the illness itself. A psychiatric diagnosis can take away a person's confidence and even her sense of humanity.
In Unlocked, Emily Grossman, who was hospitalized a dozen times with bipolar disorder, and nearly institutionalized in her teens and twenties, shares her own story, and offers you 25 keys to recovery.
She shows you that the challenge of mental illness can actually help you to discover and live your life purpose. In this book, Emily invites you to ask yourself, "What if mental illness is not a crisis but a springboard to my higher self?
Through a series of spiritual lessons, Unlocked will help you to discover strategies such as: Finding an authentic spiritual practice
  • Learning to trust your instincts
  • Developing critical coping skills
  • Pushing through inertia
  • Riding the waves of intense emotions
  • Finding happiness within
  • Developing true compassion for oneself and others
  • And much much more!
    • By applying the "keys" in this audiobook, you will not only feel better, you will live better.

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    • Release date

      October 17, 2023

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      • OverDrive Listen audiobook

        • ISBN: 9781722551926
        • File size: 160063 KB
        • Duration: 05:33:27

    • Languages

      • English

    • Reviews

      • Kirkus

        Grossman presents a set of life rules derived from her own struggle with mental health. The author begins her nonfiction debut with vivid memories of being institutionalized in the late 1990s and her transformation from "Emily Grossman, eighteen-year-old Emory University freshman with all the promise in the world" to "Emily Grossman, the eighteen-year-old mental patient." Her experiences dealing with bipolar disorder have prompted her to write a book that attempts to pull together all the "moving parts" of her recovery to help put her readers in "the driver's seat" when it comes to their own recoveries (and perhaps to encourage them to connect with their own "Higher Self" or "Higher Power"). Grossman grounds her chapters in distinct periods of her history, from childhood to college at Rutgers and beyond (including living in New York City on September 11, 2001: "We were waiting to hear from Dad. Classes were canceled. The air was heavy"), interweaving her struggles with bipolar disorder throughout the narrative. She infuses her memories with novelistic drama, turning remembered conversations into dialogue. And she seamlessly links these dramatic autobiographical sections to broader observations she's drawn from them (usually focusing on her concept of God or a "Higher Power"). "The hard part is trusting the Universe," she writes in one such passage; "but you will be given signs from Grace about whether you are on the right path." The tone throughout is gently but strongly encouraging; although her explicitly spiritual approach may put off non-religious readers, her optimism is infectious: Life, she notes, is not about avoiding problems; it's about "learning to dive headfirst into the fire, feel you've been almost burned alive, and come out the other side, scars and all." Readers open to her message will appreciate the bucking-up. An empowering, scars-and-all handbook for reaching your best self.

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