7 Best medicine books like Long Illness: A Practical Guide to Surviving, Healing, and Thriving by Meghan Jobson

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Long Illness: A Practical Guide to Surviving, Healing, and Thriving

By: Meghan Jobson

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From COVID-19 and autoimmune disease to chronic pain and inflammation, this new integrative approac…

If you liked the medicine plot in Long Illness: A Practical Guide to Surviving, Healing, and Thriving by Meghan Jobson , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body

By: Jo Marchant

3.30

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's surprising ability… read more

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  • self help
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal by Anthony William

2. Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal

By: Anthony William

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Anthony William, Medical Medium, has helped tens of thousands of people heal from ailments that hav… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

3. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More by Christopher M. Palmer

4. Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

By: Christopher M. Palmer

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This is the book that will forever change the way we understand and treat mental health. If you … read more

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  • self help
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • health
"Depression in children, adolescents, and young adults is increasing as well. From 2006 to 2917, rates of depression the US increased by 68 percent in children ages twelve to seventeen. In people ages…"

-Christopher M. Palmer, Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

"The specific psychiatric disorders in which mitochrondrial dysfunction has been identified include the following: schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression, autism, …"

-Christopher M. Palmer, Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

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5. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
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6. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

By: James Patterson

3.92

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Different books speak to us at different times."

-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

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7. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

By: Andrew McCarthy

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following  New York Times  bestselling author and ac… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah     Thomas

8. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

By: Leah Thomas

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

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10. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

By: Annie Duke

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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11. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

By: Alice Wong

4.47

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • disability
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

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12. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
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13. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1) by Charlotte Vassell

14. The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)

By: Charlotte Vassell

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

You know how they live. This is how they die... Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinn… read more

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"No one used the phrase "force of nature" in a positive way. It's meant for floods, and volcanoes, and hurricanes. I'm a woman, not a geographical phenomenon."

-Charlotte Vassell, The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)

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15. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner

16. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

By: Dacher Keltner

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne

17. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne

4.25

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health by Anupam B. Jena

18. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By: Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • health
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19. Long Illness: A Practical Guide to Surviving, Healing, and Thriving

By: Meghan Jobson

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From COVID-19 and autoimmune disease to chronic pain and inflammation, this new integrative approac… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Jobson's Long Illness: A Practical Guide to Surviving, Healing, and Thriving book and Meghan Jobson's Long Illness: A Practical Guide to Surviving, Healing, and Thriving

  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
Cover of The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke

20. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

By: Meghan O'Rourke

4.03

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • health
"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

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21. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Introduction to Internal Family Systems by Richard C. Schwartz

22. Introduction to Internal Family Systems

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A highly accessible introduction to a therapeutic approach that brings our inner “parts” into harmo… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

23. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.46

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • disability
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

Cover of It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told) by Karen Tang

24. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

By: Karen Tang

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more

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  • self help
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa  Miller

25. What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt

By: Tessa Miller

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What Doesn’t Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist’s awakening to chronic illness,… read more

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  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • self help
Cover of The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 by Matthew J. Davenport

26. The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

By: Matthew J. Davenport

4.03

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

27. Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing

By: Jen Soriano

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses sci… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • health
Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

28. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • health
Cover of Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms by Ilana Jacqueline

29. Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms

By: Ilana Jacqueline

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“An important antidote to the dogmatic ‘kale and vitamins’ tone of most ‘self-help’ literature.” —A… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • health
Cover of Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change by Nicole Vignola

30. Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change

By: Nicole Vignola

4.33

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

YOUR VERY OWN NEURO-TOOLKIT FOR A GOOD LIFE. CHANGE YOUR MIND TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Discover the n… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of All Tangled Up in Autism and Chronic Illness by Charli Clement

31. All Tangled Up in Autism and Chronic Illness

By: Charli Clement

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this ground-breaking debut, Charli Clement combines their own experiences alongside unique short… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • disability
  • health

29 Best nonfiction books like Long Illness: A Practical Guide to Surviving, Healing, and Thriving by Meghan Jobson

Transform Your Habits

Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body

Jo Marchant

3.30

Transform Your Habits

Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal

Anthony William

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

Christopher M. Palmer

4.14

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8 Top audiobook books like Introduction to Internal Family Systems by Richard C. Schwartz

Transform Your Habits

Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Guided Practices for Reclaiming Your Body and Your Life

Jon Kabat-Zinn

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.49

Transform Your Habits

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Gabor Maté

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

Janina Fisher

4.53

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