Dream Minding
Coming February 2, 2027
published by The Dial Press.
A renowned psychotherapist’s fascinating guide to using your dreams as an inner resource to find a more fulfilling life
In her practice, psychotherapist Annie Armstrong Miyao sees patients who are feeling lost. Some face anxiety, drastic life shifts, looming decisions, or trauma, others simply want to better understand themselves. They look to her for solutions. Through working with her patients, Miyao saw that the answers lie within each of us, and through dreams, we can access the wisdom that we seek. She uses dreams as one of the most powerful therapeutic tools to find true purpose and fulfillment. Dreams synthesize information we’ve taken in during the day, and they can be used as a portal of insight to identify and tend to issues that often elude us. We can use our dreams, and our reactions to them, as our guiding path.
Miyao parses and processes dreams with her patients to help them through their waking lives. She calls this practice—using dreams as a vessel to live more peacefully and wholeheartedly—dream minding. From Lou, a career-driven wife and mother whose dream of a trapped canary taught her to quell her controlling tendencies, to Ida, a twenty-something art gallery assistant whose dream of a framework of a house taught her to navigate life transitions, and more, Miyao chronicles real-life patient stories to show us the transformative effect of using dreams to heal.
Dream Minding teaches us how to use our dreams—our own internal signals—as a compass to understand our complex emotions and navigate life with a sense of direction, purpose, and well-being. Dreams call to you every night. In Dream Minding, you can learn to listen to their call.
“Annie Armstrong Miyao’s profound exploration of the unconscious mind will have you thinking deeply about your inner life, your relationships, and how you take in the world, while teaching you to embrace the medicine—and the magic—of your sleep to find meaning in your waking life.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
““Dream Minding is an exciting, empowering, and thoroughly hopeful book about the healing we can access from our dreams. Annie Armstrong Miyao invites us to take our dreams seriously, as portals to our own unconscious. Best of all, in this beautifully written and highly accessible book, Armstrong Miyao guides readers toward a practice that would allows them to harness the wisdom of their dreams. Her vital work is a must-read for anyone interested in integrating hidden parts of themselves—mind, body, and soul—knowing themselves more intimately and understanding the world more deeply.”—Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author of Group
“Annie Armstrong Miyao has a remarkable ability to make the mysterious world of dreams feel accessible and deeply relevant to our everyday lives.”—Jilian Turecki, New York Times bestselling author of It Begins with You
“Annie Armstrong Miyao’s profound exploration of the unconscious mind will have you thinking deeply about your inner life, your relationships, and how you take in the world, while teaching you to embrace the medicine—and the magic—of your sleep to find meaning in your waking life.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
“Through her lucid prose, vivid storytelling, and psychological insight, Annie Armstrong Miyao expertly guides readers to look to their dreams as internal resources for honing their intuition and deeply understanding themselves. By gracefully integrating science, theory, patient stories, and practical offerings, Miyao brings readers into the world and process of dream minding, providing them with a way to reclaim their self-sovereignty.”—Ellen Vora, MD, author of The Anatomy of Anxiety and Season of the Witch
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Annie writes on mental health, emotional well being, and womanhood. In a blend of anecdote and service oriented journalism she offers reflection, insight, tools and poses questions to deepen self understanding.
