A Bedside Book About Us

I met the author of this short book at the recent SAND conference in Italy. She is a therapist focusing on the Internal Family Systems approach to healing, and this book is a series of short articles for a local magazine, written in a simple and accessible style. There are more than 30 articles on a wide variety of topics including acceptance, the seeds of change, happiness, attachment, neuroscience, research on psychedelics, the power of intention and compassion, and the real nature of the self. All this contains much practical wisdom as well as significant reflections and advice for living. One of the most striking series of articles tells the story of Leon, severely neglected as a child and who as an adolescent commits a terrible murder - Laura explores the process leading to this sociopathy, ending with the insight from the mother of one of the girls that he must be broken inside.