Epiphanies: A Psychotherapist's Tales of Spontaneous Emotional Healing

By Ann Jauregui

Book Overview

"In a quiet moment in therapy, a breakthrough comes-the miracle of the new." "Epiphany" is defined by Webster's as a "sudden insight into the reality or essential meaning of something." "But my favorite part of the definition," says psychotherapist Ann Jauregui, "tells us that the revelation is usually brought on by some simple, homely, or commonplace experience. Something big is occasioned by something little, something easily missed. And it unfolds from there-sometimes as a flash, sometimes in exquisite slow motion-out of conventional time and space and language. 'Look at this,' you whisper as you see something about the universe you've never seen before. 'And look at this,' you whisper too, seeing yourself seeing it. The universe is bigger than it was a minute ago, and so are you." In this intimate, lyrical integration of psychology and spirituality, Dr. Jauregui shares the stories of nine clients, casting light on moments that "just came," bringing surprise, comfort, and joy. "Shyly we venture out with these stories," she writes, "into a world still in the thrall of a reluctant science and its cousin, a reluctant psychotherapy." We are the beneficiaries, invited into a sparkling conversation that explores these life-changing surprises, and our own.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761563768
• ISBN13: 9780761563761
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

not just for therapists

I hope that word of this little gem of a book gets out in spite of its audience-narrowing subtitle. This is not a book about psychotherapy. Or at least it's not simply a book about psychotherapy. With great good humor, touching lyricism and intelligent insight, family therapist Ann Jauregui conducts a magical mystery tour, exploring life's ah hah moments in science, psychotherapy, and religion. She asks how it happens that something quite ordinary triggers a change in perception as when looking at an Escher print. Without fanfare or warning, edges blur and suddenly something familiar shifts. Light falls on a new path and nothing is ever quite the same again.As entertaining as this book is, it should be read slowly. Take the time to enjoy Jauregui's good company and make sure you don't miss a single insight along the way. In a world full of promised quick fixes and self-help guides, Ann Jauregui's Epiphanies offers something deeper and more humbling -- a newly generous sense of wonder, optimism and possibility.

Mind Expanding

Ann Jauregui stretches our minds so that we too begin to see and have epiphanies, moments of opening to new life and light and joy. Once we are looking and listening freed from the box of nineteenth century science, epiphanies are there, as natural and real as butterflies. A great read, accurately poetic and scientific at once, with stories of clients, scientists (Newton and Hawking), and Ann Jauregui herself. An important book for therapists, especially those of us who are ready for life changes to be happening in our offices and wondering why they are going on next door, not with us. This book has the power to change us and those we want to help.

Epiphanies: A Psychotherapist¹ Tales of Spontaneous Emotiona

This book has had a lasting effect on the way I look at life. I have the utmost appreciation for Ann Jauregui and her life accomplishments. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in bettering their time on this wonderful earth.Roger Neef

Epiphanies by Jauregui

Once in a while, I find a book that has the ability to shatter my world--but not in a bad way. It shatters it in such a way as to tear away the walls that bind my mind thereby allowing the light to come flooding in. Jauregui does this for me in her book Epiphanies. Chapter by chapter she builds on the idea that things may not be totally as we think they are or as they first appear. This book left me wanting more and I can only hope she is already working on her next book.