You Are Not Broken

A Trauma-Informed Guide to Anxiety, Grief, and Emotional Overwhelm

By Linda MacInnes, LMFT

A physical book and an e-book displayed on a tablet, both titled "You Are Not Broken," with the subtitle "A Trauma-Informed Guide to Anxiety, Grief, and Emotional Overwhelm," authored by Linda MacInnes, LMFT.

Publisher: Silicon Valley Press

Publication Date: October 2026

Paperback ISBN: 9798986101231

eBook ISBN: 9798986101248

Trim: 6×9

Page Count: 220

A Compassionate Guide to Returning to Yourself

Many people silently move through life carrying grief, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, burnout, self-doubt, people pleasing, perfectionism, and the exhausting pressure to keep functioning while feeling disconnected underneath it all.

In You Are Not Broken, licensed marriage and family therapist Linda MacInnes offers a trauma-informed approach to emotional healing rooted in compassion, nervous system awareness, self-trust, mindfulness, and emotional understanding.

This book helps readers understand:

  • why emotional survival patterns develop

  • how grief changes identity

  • what emotional overwhelm is trying to communicate

  • how nervous system dysregulation impacts healing

  • how to reconnect with yourself gently

  • why healing is not self-reinvention

Blending therapeutic insight with reflective guidance and grounded emotional support, You Are Not Broken offers readers a path toward emotional safety, self-understanding, resilience, and reconnection.

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Linda

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Linda MacInnes is a licensed marriage and family therapist and creator of Essence-Based Therapy™, a trauma-informed healing approach focused on helping people reconnect with their authentic selves after grief, trauma, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm.

Meet Linda

  • you feel emotionally overwhelmed or exhausted

  • you are navigating grief or loss

  • anxiety has left you disconnected from yourself

  • you are tired of constantly surviving

  • you struggle with self-trust

  • you feel emotionally numb, stuck, or disconnected

  • you have spent years people pleasing or abandoning yourself

  • you want healing that feels grounded, compassionate, and emotionally safe

This Book Is For You If …

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What You’ll Find Inside

You will explore:

  • emotional survival patterns

  • grief and identity shifts

  • nervous system awareness

  • emotional regulation tools

  • mindfulness and presence

  • self-compassion practices

  • reflective exercises

  • emotional resilience

  • reconnecting with authenticity

  • healing through self-understanding