The Emotional Truth of Dreams is an intimate book of awakening together not only from, but also to, and through our dreams…
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“With this compelling new book, Willow Pearson Trimbach and Eva Tuschman Leonard invite you to awaken to the deep mystery of dreaming— at once a dialogical practice embracing the fullness of our being, as well as a path toward the more we have yet to become. Accepting their invitation to “sing your dreams” might just open your soul to growth, grace, and love you didn’t know were waiting for you.”
Robin Bagai, PsyD
Lecturer and editor of A Michael Eigen Companion:
Moments of Wisdom from a Psychoanalytic Mystic
“Luminous and oneiric, The Emotional Truth of Dreams returns dreaming to the heart of psychoanalysis. This book reads like a dream—porous, shimmering, unhurried—its pages opening emotional truth across space and time. With exceptional grace, Willow Pearson Trimbach and Eva Tuschman Leonard sing the dream that awakens and expands the heart-mind. Sublime and enlarging, dreams in these pages represent, connect, and transform.”
Shalini Masih
Author of Psychoanalytic Conversations with
States of Spirit Possession: Beauty in Brokenness
“Willow and Eva have crafted an insightful, heartfelt, and truly original book that is sure to delight any explorer of the nocturnal mind. Ever since Plato, the power of dialogue has been engaged for transformation. This elegant book is about authentic dialogue—with our deeper self, with each other, and with reality. Rigorous, reflective, and infinitely wise, these gifted guides will take you to the treasures that await you within and show you to share that wealth with the world.”
Andrew Holecek
Author of Dream Yoga
A Wisdom Tapestry of Dreaming, Intimacy, and Spirit
“The Emotional Truth of Dreams: Learning from Dream Dialogues in Psychotherapeutic and Spiritual Practice is a rare and beautiful book — one that moved me at the tender, quiet, subterranean level of my being.
What Willow Pearson Trimach and Eva Tuschman Leonard offer is far more than a contribution to dream studies and depth psychology, though it is certainly that. This book opens a wider understanding of dreaming itself: an expanded sense of nested dreaming, daytime and nighttime dreaming, and the profound terrain of lucid living and dying. Through explorations of synchronicity, love, illness, time, spirituality, and death, the authors invite us into a deeper, more mysterious, and aesthetically attuned dimension of our lives.
What makes this book especially extraordinary is the way it is written. Willow and Eva — psychotherapists, artists, colleagues, and deep soul friends — weave years of intimate dialogue and lived inquiry into the text itself. The result feels like entering an ongoing conversation between two wise and soulful women over tea on a long afternoon. Their reflections unfold with elegance, tenderness, depth, and humanity. Wise teachings — at times serving as nondual pointing-out instructions — are woven throughout the tapestry of the book, yet never feel imposed or abstracted from lived experience.
This is scholarship grounded in theory, yet rooted in life itself: in dreaming, loving, singing, friendship, illness, grief, beauty, cats, and the mysteries of time and psyche. Included among the book’s many gifts is Eva’s courageous exploration of illness as a kind of “beautiful nightmare” — an offering of vulnerability, honesty, and surrender.
Not all substantive books are beautifully written. This one truly is. Deeply personal yet intellectually rigorous, emotionally intimate while spiritually spacious, The Emotional Truth of Dreams: Learning from Dream Dialogues in Psychotherapeutic and Spiritual Practice is a joy to read from beginning to end. Reading this book felt like a blessing.”
Vipassana Esbjörn-Hargens, PhD
Psychologist, Artist, Death Doula