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Deeply Human: The Science and Soul of Emotional Healing: How to Understand and Connect with Your Emotions
Deeply Human is a book for people who have persevered through stress, silence, shame, and the pain of feeling misunderstood.
Maybe you’ve had to be the strong one. A person who listens more than they speak. Someone who’s done so much to help others and ignored your own needs.
Perhaps you’ve done this for years while all along something inside you waits desperately to be heard. Perhaps it’s been asking, ‘when it is my turn?’
This isn’t just another self-help book; it’s an invitation to connect and help even the most difficult-to-reach emotions and help them make sense.
Through powerful stories of therapy clients, you’ll discover what it means to reconnect with your feelings after years of emotional disconnection or emotional overload. Anxiety, numbness, and shame aren’t flaws—they’re survival strategies. This book helps you listen to what your body and nervous system have been trying to tell you for years.
Blending neuroscience, trauma-informed insight, and compassionate storytelling, this book offers more than knowledge—it offers companionship. It will meet you in your inner world and give your body a voice.
Deeply Human was written for you
You often feel “too much” or “not enough.”
You struggle to name your emotions or trust them.
You’ve always helped others but have felt unable to help yourself.
You’re ready to feel more connected—but you’re unsure how to begin.
Through practical tools and body-based emotional exercises, you’ll learn not just how to manage emotions—but how to build a relationship with them. A relationship based on trust, not fear.
Someone who’s been where you are wrote this book, someone who’s walked a similar path not just as a therapist—but as a fellow human. Someone who’s learned that healing doesn’t come from pushing feelings away, but from inviting them in.
Come as you are. It’s your time now.
Read Deeply Human to begin the most important relationship of your life—the one with yourself.
Maybe you’ve had to be the strong one. A person who listens more than they speak. Someone who’s done so much to help others and ignored your own needs.
Perhaps you’ve done this for years while all along something inside you waits desperately to be heard. Perhaps it’s been asking, ‘when it is my turn?’
This isn’t just another self-help book; it’s an invitation to connect and help even the most difficult-to-reach emotions and help them make sense.
Through powerful stories of therapy clients, you’ll discover what it means to reconnect with your feelings after years of emotional disconnection or emotional overload. Anxiety, numbness, and shame aren’t flaws—they’re survival strategies. This book helps you listen to what your body and nervous system have been trying to tell you for years.
Blending neuroscience, trauma-informed insight, and compassionate storytelling, this book offers more than knowledge—it offers companionship. It will meet you in your inner world and give your body a voice.
Deeply Human was written for you
You often feel “too much” or “not enough.”
You struggle to name your emotions or trust them.
You’ve always helped others but have felt unable to help yourself.
You’re ready to feel more connected—but you’re unsure how to begin.
Through practical tools and body-based emotional exercises, you’ll learn not just how to manage emotions—but how to build a relationship with them. A relationship based on trust, not fear.
Someone who’s been where you are wrote this book, someone who’s walked a similar path not just as a therapist—but as a fellow human. Someone who’s learned that healing doesn’t come from pushing feelings away, but from inviting them in.
Come as you are. It’s your time now.
Read Deeply Human to begin the most important relationship of your life—the one with yourself.
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306 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 7, 2025
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January 9, 2026
A compassionate bridge between neuroscience and the emotional life we rarely name
Deeply Human: The Science and Soul of Emotional Healing is a quietly powerful book for people who have learned to survive by being strong, composed, and emotionally contained often at the cost of their own inner voice. Dr. James P. Manning writes not as a distant expert, but as someone deeply attuned to the lived reality of emotional pain, numbness, and shame.
What makes this book stand out is its reframing of difficult emotions. Anxiety, disconnection, and emotional overwhelm are not treated as problems to fix, but as intelligent survival strategies shaped by experience. This perspective alone can feel profoundly relieving for readers who have spent years judging themselves for how they feel or don’t feel.
Blending trauma-informed neuroscience with deeply humane storytelling, Manning invites readers into the therapy room through client narratives that feel authentic and respectful rather than sensationalized. The illustrations subtly reinforce this sense of safety and accessibility, making complex emotional concepts feel approachable and embodied.
Rather than offering quick techniques or emotional “hacks,” Deeply Human focuses on building a relationship with emotions one rooted in curiosity, listening, and trust. The body-based exercises are gentle and practical, especially helpful for readers who struggle to name emotions or feel disconnected from their internal experience.
This is not a book about becoming emotionally perfect or endlessly positive. It’s about becoming honest, regulated, and self-compassionate. For helpers, caretakers, and anyone who has long put themselves last, Deeply Human feels less like a self-help manual and more like a steady companion saying, “You’re not broken and you don’t have to do this alone.”
A meaningful, grounding read for those ready to stop fighting their inner world and begin listening to it.
Deeply Human: The Science and Soul of Emotional Healing is a quietly powerful book for people who have learned to survive by being strong, composed, and emotionally contained often at the cost of their own inner voice. Dr. James P. Manning writes not as a distant expert, but as someone deeply attuned to the lived reality of emotional pain, numbness, and shame.
What makes this book stand out is its reframing of difficult emotions. Anxiety, disconnection, and emotional overwhelm are not treated as problems to fix, but as intelligent survival strategies shaped by experience. This perspective alone can feel profoundly relieving for readers who have spent years judging themselves for how they feel or don’t feel.
Blending trauma-informed neuroscience with deeply humane storytelling, Manning invites readers into the therapy room through client narratives that feel authentic and respectful rather than sensationalized. The illustrations subtly reinforce this sense of safety and accessibility, making complex emotional concepts feel approachable and embodied.
Rather than offering quick techniques or emotional “hacks,” Deeply Human focuses on building a relationship with emotions one rooted in curiosity, listening, and trust. The body-based exercises are gentle and practical, especially helpful for readers who struggle to name emotions or feel disconnected from their internal experience.
This is not a book about becoming emotionally perfect or endlessly positive. It’s about becoming honest, regulated, and self-compassionate. For helpers, caretakers, and anyone who has long put themselves last, Deeply Human feels less like a self-help manual and more like a steady companion saying, “You’re not broken and you don’t have to do this alone.”
A meaningful, grounding read for those ready to stop fighting their inner world and begin listening to it.
January 5, 2026
All encompassing book on the many facets of emotional well-being. Beginning with a few patients, the author begins with their back stories to draw the reader in. Where after, treatment begins related to overcoming past difficulties from childhood emotions to dealing with grief, depicting the pathway towards healing. It then defines many of the treatments used and the many emotions involved. A very thorough book related to the overall psyche that can be used to diagnose various psychological disturbances accompanied by physical issues exploring various interventions to overcome it. A very worthwhile and interesting read for those who enjoy this genre.
December 30, 2025
Through the stories of three "composite" therapy clients, Manning shows different ways of connecting with your physical and emotional feelings and actons that have become survival strategies, and giving those parts of you the love and attention they've been needing for years.
Very readable.
Not IFS therapy, but many of the practices are the same.
Will hopefully lead more people to seek out therapy in order to heal their inner children and become happier and better able to cope with difficulties as a result.
Very readable.
Not IFS therapy, but many of the practices are the same.
Will hopefully lead more people to seek out therapy in order to heal their inner children and become happier and better able to cope with difficulties as a result.
December 8, 2025
We proudly announce that DEEPLY HUMAN: The Science and Soul of Emotional Healing by Dr. James P. Manning has been honored with the B.R.A.G. Medallion (Book Readers’ Appreciation Group). It now joins the very select award-winning, reader-recommended books at indieBRAG. This award is a testament to this book's quality and its impact on readers.
November 17, 2025
Deeply Human is an outstanding book. I really liked the way the information was presented. The stories from real patients were beneficial. I also liked the videos.
December 31, 2025
Very impressed with this book. Read it in it's entirety and will go back and read it again as a study guide. Excellent resource section. Well written.
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