The Light Between the Leaves
6 Truths Your Therapist Won't Tell You About Healing Depression and Trauma
$46.73
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
16 June 2026
Summary
Drawing on psychology, lived experience, and the environments that shaped his own recovery, a clinical psychologist introduces a way of understanding the mind as an ecosystem—one that must be supported, stabilized, and nourished before it can truly change.
For many people, therapy, medication, and self-help advice provide insight—but not relief. They understand why they feel the way they do, yet still feel numb, disconnected, or emotionally distant from their own lives.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781637748282 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1637748280 |
| Author: | Scott Eilers |
| Publisher: | BenBella Books |
| Imprint: | BenBella Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 16 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 153mm x 230mm |
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Critics Review
“Scott Eilers has written something rare—a book that tells the unfiltered truth about depression. The Light Between the Leaves cuts through therapy-speak and ‘self-care’ clichés with hard-won wisdom about what it really takes to come back from despair. Fierce, beautifully written, and real, Eilers offers actionable guidance that’s easy to understand and implement—and is a steady light for anyone who’s ever felt too broken to keep going.”
—Anna Runkle, “The Crappy Childhood Fairy” and author of Re-Regulated
“The Light Between the Leaves combines Dr. Eilers’s clinical insight with the honesty of someone who’s lived through the challenges his clients face. He brings a necessary humanity and good humor to this unflinching account of how to build a life worth living alongside pain, difficulty, and plenty of dirty laundry. Is it possible for a book about depression to be heartwarming? It seems so.”
—Forrest Hanson, host of the Being Well Podcast
Scott Eilers
Scott Eilers, PsyD, LP, is a board-certified clinical psychologist and the owner of the North Star Psychological Center. He has fifteen years of experience providing individual and group psychotherapy, mostly to individuals with relatively severe conditions such as bipolar disorder, severe depression, severe anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, anorexia, and bulimia. He’s also the author of For When Everything Is Burning, the host of the podcast The Psychology of Depression and Anxiety, and a regular content creator on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.
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