NEW Book: Parents Have Feelings, Too
Empowering you to navigate the tough emotions that parenting brings.
Available On September 23, 2025
This practical guide teaches parents how to understand and process their emotions–and how to teach this valuable, life changing skill to the next generation.
Parents are stressed. It’s not uncommon for modern-day pressures and expectations to compromise a parent’s emotional well-being, causing them to lose control of their emotions and lash out.
But when parents let their anger and frustration lead to outbursts, the fallout can have lasting effects on their children, leaving them anxious, insecure, and hurt by the words and actions of their overwhelmed caregivers.
Parents desperately need real, actionable, long-lasting advice that helps them process their emotions in a healthy and productive way. In Parents Have Feelings, Too, psychotherapists Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW and Dr. Juli Fraga provide the tools parents need to understand and effectively work with their own potent feelings, breaking the chain of intergenerational trauma, and passing along this knowledge to their children to create a generation of emotionally mature people.
Parents Have Feelings, Too includes:
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Practical strategies to help parents process their feelings
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Stories and examples
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Strategies that build confidence and emotional know-how in their children.
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Strategies that break the intergenerational transfer of trauma so parents can raise emotionally healthier people who can thrive amidst the many challenges of being human.
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Expert insights and insight-building exercises that support parents on their emotional journey
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Shows parents how to reach the open-hearted state of the authentic self
Parents have feelings. And when they understand what they are, where they’re coming from, and how to process them, they become equipped to not only enhance their parenting skills but also help their children understand and process their own emotions.
It's Not Always Depression
Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self
Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises that help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiety and depression, and discover your authentic self.
In It’s Not Always Depression, psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel presents readers with a unique and pragmatic tool she calls The Change Triangle.
The Change Triangle is a map—a guide to carry you from a place of disconnection back to your true self.
Working the Change Triangle is the step-by-step process at the heart of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), a therapeutic method that teaches patients to identify the defenses and inhibitory emotions (shame, anxiety, and guilt) that prevent them from being in touch with their core emotions (joy, anger, sadness, fear, and excitement).
In allowing ourselves to fully experience core emotions, we move toward an openhearted state where we are calm, curious, connected, compassionate, confident, courageous, and clear. Through moving, persuasive stories of working the Change Triangle with her own patients, Hendel teaches us how to apply these principles to our everyday lives.
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