Annie Armstrong Miyao

Annie’s profound exploration of the unconscious mind will have you thinking deeply about your inner life, your relationships, and how you take in the world while teaching you to embrace the medicine - and the magic - of your sleep to find meaning in your waking life.

Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Annie Armstrong Miyao has a remarkable ability to make the mysterious world of dreams feel accessible and deeply relevant to our everyday lives.

Jilian Turecki, New York Times bestselling author of It Begins with You

Through a masterfully woven blend of captivating stories and clinical expertise, psychotherapist Annie Armstrong Miyao shines light on the wisdom our unconscious mind holds and the innate power we all have to tap into it through our dreams. In this book, she illuminates the nine-step dream minding process as a healing paradigm to live a more meaningful, whole-hearted, and expansive life. Miyao helps us find who we were always meant to be.

Elise Loehnen, New York Times bestselling author of On Our Best Behaviour

Through her lucid prose, vivid storytelling, and psychological insight, Annie Armstrong Miyao expertly guides readers to look to their dreams as internal resources to hone their intuition and deeply understand themselves. By gracefully integrating science, theory, patient stories, and practical offerings, readers will be brought into the world and process of Dream Minding — providing them with a way to reclaim their self-sovereignty.

Ellen Vora, MD, author of Anatomy of Anxiety and Season of the Witch

Dream Minding is an exciting, empowering, and thoroughly hopeful book about the healing we can access from our dreams. Annie Armstrong Miyao invites us to take our dreams seriously, as portals to our own unconscious. Best of all, in this beautifully written and highly accessible book, Miyao guides readers toward a practice that would allow them to harness the wisdom of their dreams. Miyao's vital work is a must-read for anyone interested in integrating hidden parts of themselves - mind, body, and soul - knowing themselves more intimately, and understanding the world more deeply.

Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author of Group

We know that we voyage to a world beyond the mind's horizon when we sleep, but too few of us understand the symbolism of what we encounter or what our dreams are trying to show us. In this illuminating, story-laden guide, psychotherapist Annie Armstrong Miyao illustrates how to navigate the unconscious to return its gifts, and put you in touch with a deeper and more whole version of yourself.

Elise Loehnen, New York Times bestselling author of On Our Best Behavior

Annie Armstrong Miyao is a compelling guide through the mysteries of sleep. This book is a fascinating journey.

Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD., New York Times bestselling co-author of What Happened to You?

The Secret Language of Sleep

A fascinating journey into the hidden world of our dreams, and what they can reveal about who we really are, from renowned psychotherapist and Vogue and Goop contributor Annie Armstrong Miyao.Every night, our minds create strange and vivid worlds. We find ourselves in unfamiliar places, encounter people from our past, live through impossible situations – and wake wondering what, if anything, it all means.In Dream Minding, psychotherapist Annie Armstrong Miyao takes us inside the mysterious world of dreams, exploring what happens in our minds while we sleep and what our dreams can reveal about the emotions, relationships and experiences shaping our waking lives.Drawing on psychological theory, neuroscience and fascinating real-life case studies from her work as a psychotherapist, Miyao explores the sometimes absurd scenes that play out in our sleeping minds and uncovers the thoughts, fears and desires that can lie beneath them.Moving between science, psychology and the stories of real people, Dream Minding is an illuminating exploration of the unconscious mind – and of how paying attention to the lives we lead while we sleep can deepen our understanding of the lives we lead while awake.‘Annie’s profound exploration of the unconscious mind will have you thinking deeply about your inner life, your relationships, and how you take in the world.’ – Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

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