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I Cried All the Way to Happy Hour
What to do when self help or talk therapy haven't really helped
Why This Book Matters & Should
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If self-help hasn't fully helped or you’ve talked about your problems, until you were blue in the face, to little or no avail, then this book is exactly what you need. Stop chasing down your symptoms and focus on truly healing the root causes of your struggles, patterns and anxiety: trauma, the trauma of Shame and unconscious limiting beliefs.
This book is for trauma survivors—especially those who aren’t aware that they are trauma survivors. The 'little t' traumas, like Shame, are more dysregulating over a lifetime than the 'Big T' traumas, like an accident, act of violence or loss. More than you may realize, most of your beliefs, much of your personality and many of your life-long patterns and behaviors were forged by traumatic experiences.
If you've tried EVERYTHING for your emotional pain and nothing has worked GET THIS BOOK!
"Let me state at the outset I am am a medical doctor and neuroscientist that helps people recover from anxiety and I read about 3-4 books a month on the topic of healing trauma. By far and away, the people who experienced trauma first hand (especially in childhood) and have recovered seem to have the most wisdom on the subject. I find Brian D Mahan's book is no exception to that observation.
Personal, engaging, very well written, and ultimately informative I CRIED ALL THE WAY TO HAPPY HOUR provides a well studied way out for people who have tried everything traditional therapy has to offer and are still suffering. Traditional cognitive, "talk" therapies have been heralded as the standard for healing emotional disorders and it is clear that this type of "thinking based" therapy is failing many, many people. In my practice treating people with anxiety, I consistently find many people feel because traditional therapy hasn't provided relief for them, that they are unfixable and they are destined to suffer forever.
What is missing, and what I believe Brian's book so clearly shows, is that a more body centered, feeling based, "somatic" approach provides considerable advantages that the "talking cure" just can't rival. Brian quotes research showing that the more clearly people can describe their emotions via sensations in the body, the more likely they will ultimately overcome those painful feelings. As a physician and neuroscientist, this makes so much sense to me because the parts of the brain that relate to sensation and movement in the body are often also the very same parts that are engaged with emotion, especially painful emotion.
Further, as Brian so aptly points out, shame is a considerable factor in painful emotion —and shame is an emotion he has spent considerable time and energy studying and resolving in himself using a somatic focus. Again, just talking about shame (as in traditional therapies) does little to resolve this powerful negative emotion. I have had over 100,000 patient encounters in my career and I believe to truly heal, I completely agree with Brian's premise that the shame must be felt through the body to be processed and resolved. Just thinking and changing the attitude cognitively towards shame is simply not enough.
As Brian so astutely points out in this book, when toxic shame is integrated into "healthy" shame, a great deal of painful emotion is resolved. This revolutionary book goes a very long way to show a different approach to healing called SOMATIC EXPERIENCING that Brian is highly trained and experienced in. So, as the title says, if Self Help or Talk Therapy hasn't really helped, you're not broken, you just haven't been exposed to the right approach and I CRIED ALL THE WAY TO HAPPY HOUR may well show you the true path to healing —ESPECIALLY when everything else has failed."
DR RUSSELL KENNEDY, MD
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what people are saying
Praise for the Book
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“Brian is a profoundly talented practitioner and deeply committed to helping people heal from trauma. I’m proud to call him a teacher and a friend.”
Gabby Bernstein
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Universe has Your Back
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“Simply a must-read. Brian’s compassion, wisdom, and humor leap off the page guiding us onto a path of profound healing and transformation.”
Marie Forleo
#1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything is Figureoutable
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“Brian creates a safe space to start with the “facts” of your traumas. At first glance, it seems like you’re just helplessly looking at the pain. And then you realize—it’s an unfailing tool that masterfully releases it.”
Nicole Ari Parke
Actor, Producer and Parent
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"Brian took the physical manifestation of my trauma and healed it. His work and his teachings are game changing."
Maria Menounos
2x New York Times best selling author and host of “Better Together with Maria Menounos”
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"Brian Mahan writes like a force of nature. Both laugh-out-loud funny and terrifying—Brian weaves personal experience with his deep knowledge of Somatic Experiencing to bring you a road map for healing your most profound traumas.”
Matthew Carnahan
Creator of Emmy Award-winning series HOUSE OF LIES and author of SERPENT GIRL.
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“Brian has the profound ability to lead me towards the truth. Always.“
Annabelle Dexter Jones
(HBO ‘Succession’) Actor, Director
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“Traditional therapy made me relive my trauma by having to tell the same story again and again, without seeing any improvement. Brian takes you to the core issues in a whole new way so that you actually heal!”
Tamar Geller
New Your Times bestselling author of The Loved Dog and as Oprah says “A Life Coach for dogs and their people”
"Brian has been a bright light illuminating the path of my personal healing journey. From an internal and external view it appears this world needs levels of healing from perspectives we haven’t explored before. Brian has been exploring these levels of healing for years. It shows in his work.
Fleming’s work healed the world 100 years ago, and my gut tells me that Mahan is doing that very same thing for the emotional body.
Thank you Brian, not just for helping me, but for all you do for this world."
- Michael Magness
meet the author
About Brian D. Mahan
Brian D. Mahan, SEP is not a traditional talk therapist. He is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, specializing in working with anxiety, PTSD, developmental trauma, shock trauma and shame. Brian once struggled with the life long impact of developmental trauma and shame, not realizing it was the root cause of so many of his problems. After years of fruitless efforts to change, he discovered the missing links to profound and long lasting healing. He is now an internationally renown expert on healing trauma and the trauma of shame. His life’s mission is to help 1,000,000 heal from trauma.
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