If I Am Not Me

<h3><strong>If I Am Not Me: Recovering Your Ego - Managing Bipolar Depression through Walking and Meditation</strong></h3><p>by Rabbi Jeffrey S. Turtletaub</p><p></p><p><strong><em>If I Am Not Me</em></strong> is a deeply personal and practical guide to healing from bipolar depression - not by escaping the self but by learning to walk with it.</p><p>Drawing on decades of <strong>Torah study</strong> <strong>psychology</strong> and <strong>lived experience</strong> Rabbi Jeffrey S. Turtletaub offers a revolutionary approach to emotional recovery: movement as medicine awareness as prayer and walking as the most honest form of meditation.</p><p>This book is not about quick fixes. It is about slowing down enough to meet yourself where you truly are - in body breath and thought. With gentle honesty and profound spiritual clarity Turtletaub explores how simple mindful walking can become a form of cognitive therapy how meditation can restore equilibrium and how faith can be rediscovered through rhythm not dogma.</p><p>Both memoir and manual <em>If I Am Not Me</em> offers tools for those navigating depression bipolar disorder or the aftermath of trauma - and for anyone seeking to recover a stable compassionate relationship with their own mind.</p><p>A book of movement and mercy it reminds us that healing begins with a single step - and that every step taken consciously can lead us home.</p>