Feel, Heal & Let That Sh*t Go

Your Guide to Emotional Resilience and Lasting Self-Love

By: Rachel Kaplan

Narrated by: Rachel Kaplan

Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

A psychotherapist and hit podcaster brings empathy and humor to her first book, a radical reimagining of the self-help genre that teaches listeners how to “process their emotional sh*t,” let it go, and enjoy the life they’re living

After suffering through her own cycle of tragedy, suppressed emotion, professional study, therapy, and eventual breakthrough, Rachel Kaplan knows from experience that many of us avoid actually feeling our feelings. Instead, we store them in a kind of emotional constipation, chasing distraction, addiction, consumption, and other forms of suppression. The only way to heal from traumatic experiences and difficult feelings, to live healthier and happier lives, is to move the emotions through our bodies—to let that sh*t go.

Heal, Feel, and Let That Sh*t Go is a revolutionary and irreverent approach to personal transformation and self-care that teaches listeners precisely how to (and why they should) feel emotions to move them through the body as nature intended. Kaplan calls this modality “emotional potty training,” and the revolutionary community she’s nurturing, the Feelings Movement. Her approach helps listeners heal themselves deep down, eliminate doubt about their own self-worth and value, and importantly, enjoy the journey.

To accomplish this, Kaplan guides listeners to:
• reconnect and reintegrate with their younger selves who suppressed emotion because they needed connection and approval from parents in order to survive
• access the inner pain resulting from the experience of feeling unlovable and other traumas that were not emotionally processed at the time
• engage in self-care practices and step-by-step physical and mental exercises to work through and release these pent-up feelings

Restoring the ability to process emotion is the only effective means for reducing our backlog of emotional pain, establishing a baseline of well-being and self-trust, and overcoming the debilitating effects of core wounds, chronic stress, depression, and misery. By letting that sh*t go, listeners can enjoy the life they’re living and know their worth, no matter what.

©2024 Rachel Kaplan (P)2024 Recorded Books

Deep, sweet, and sometimes silly take on healing and caring for your whole self

I just finished Feel, Heal & Let that Sh*t Go on Audible, but I already know that I'll be revisiting this audiobook many times along my continued healing journey. Rachel's narration made this book a smart and even at times, a FUN listen.

The magic in this book is how Rachel breaks down and presents decades of emotional and healing expertise in such an easy to follow and light hearted way. I have listened to 48 audio titles over the last two years while navigating my own heartbreak and healing. Save yourself the many hours and listen to Rachel's succinct, sensitive, and strategic method of becoming (and loving) a whole, full version of your Self!

OMG this book will change so many lives

Wow. Look, I haven’t read all the other books in this category, but now I don't feel like I need to. I've seen enough. This was fantastic.

Rachel is clearly the perfect person to create this book. It's not so much that the wisdom in this book comes from her life.... rather, the wisdom comes from all over the place, but only someone who has lived a life like Rachel would be in any position to discover this wisdom and synthesize it in this way. And even if someone else were to unlock the info in this book, would they be able to make it a fun read? I listened to the audiobook, which I recommend, because it feels all the more accessible... the subject matter is sometimes emotionally heavy, but held with a lightness and humor that makes this an enjoyable read.

There were plenty of new insights which got me thinking. For example, the provocation about the "rationality" of the choice a child might make to believe that the world is safe and they themselves are to blame for the ways in which their parents cause them to feel pain. Brain expanding and heart expanding. This is simultaneously an extremely practical instruction manual, and also a collection of stories which help make it easier to see the world in a new light. Even the foreword and the acknowledgments got me good.

I expect to send this book to many friends over the course of my life!