The Emotional Truth of Dreams

Book Announcement by Willow Pearson Trimbach (USA) and Eva Tuschman Leonard (USA)

The Emotional Truth of Dreams: Learning from Dream Dialogues in Psychotherapeutic and Spiritual Practice

The Emotional Truth of Dreams cover

The greatest myth we harbor about our dreams is that they aren’t real, yet as psychotherapists, artists, and colleagues Willow Pearson Trimbach and Eva Tuschman Leonard demonstrate, dreams are profoundly real expressions of our deepest emotional truths.

The Emotional Truth of Dreams: Learning from Dream Dialogues in Psychotherapeutic and Spiritual Practice (Routledge) explores what we can learn from dreams, both nocturnal and waking, through their revelations of emotional truths, and how these truths can inform psychotherapeutic practice, spiritual practice, and everyday life.

The co-authors—both psychotherapists and artists—demonstrate the path of awakening not only from dreams but also to and through dreams. They suggest that to dream is to realize grace. Further, they apprentice grace by developing and deepening the relationship to the soul’s divine gifts and receiving the wondrous offerings of vivid dreamlife. Through contemplation of over a dozen dreams, the authors share their collaborative dream dialogues and reflections. In this process, new meanings, questions, and revelations about the life of the soul emerge. They show how to cultivate the practice of deeply listening to our dreams and the emotional truths they harbor by growing awareness and receptivity to our psyche’s enigmatic expressions.

www.routledge.com/The-Emotional-Truth-of-Dreams

Willow Pearson Trimbach, PsyD, LMFT, MT-BC, is Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Clinical Psychology Department, California Institute of Integral Studies. Dr. Pearson Trimbach practices psychotherapy in the Bay Area, California where she sees adults and provides consultation and supervision. She is a psychologist, psychotherapist, music therapist, author, singer, and songwriter. Her most recent album, Caesura’s Cry, was released in July 2025.

Eva Tuschman Leonard, LMFT, is a psychotherapist, writer, and visual artist residing in Northern California. Her first book, Bodywork, is a meditation on illness, grief, and desire told through her drawings and written reflections.

Willow Pearson Trimbach, Psy.D., LMFT, MT-BC