7 Best mental health books like Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself by Mark Epstein

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Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

By: Mark Epstein

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or a great Buddhist teacher, but Mark Epstein is …

"The ego's instinctive favoring of itself is eroded by a sense of the infinite"

-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

"There is much self-esteem to be gained from learning how and when to surrender."

-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

"The most important events in our lives, from falling in love to giving birth to facing death, all require the ego to let go."

-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

"We are already equipped to meet whatever befalls us. Life's challenges are challenging, but there is room for faith, for confidence, even for optimism."

-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

If you liked the mental health plot in Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself by Mark Epstein , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

By: Sharon Salzberg , None , None

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully written work, one of America's most beloved meditation teachers offers discerni… read more

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  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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2. No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

By: Jack Kornfield

4.04

Format: None pages,

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  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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3. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment

By: Robert Wright

3.64

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditat… read more

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  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

4. The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything

By: Neil Pasricha

4.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What's the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a Walmart executive, a New Yor… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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5. Before Happiness: How Creating a Positive Reality First Amplifies Your Levels of Happiness and Success

By: Shawn Achor

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Why are some people able to make positive change while others remain the same? In his international… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help

6. Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns & Encountering Naked Reality

By: Pema Chödrön

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Audio CD

Have you ever had an itch and not scratched it? In the Buddhist tradition, this points to a vast pa… read more

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7. Don't Bite the Hook: Finding Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Other Destructive Emotions

By: Pema Chödrön

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Audio CD

Life has a way of provoking us with traffic jams and computer malfunctions, with emotionally distan… read more

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8. Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

By: Stephen Batchelor

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller and acclaimed guide to Buddhism for beginners and practitioners alike In this… read more

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9. Realizing the Power of Now

By: Eckhart Tolle

3.93

Format: 152 pages, Audio CD

Perhaps you can recall a time when you felt more alive than at any other moment when you had a sudd… read more

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10. The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

By: Dalai Lama XIV

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr, Einstein. Their insights shook our perception of who we ar… read more

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11. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

By: Dan Harris

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to… read more

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12. 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

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

4.49

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

From the author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents , this handbook offers essential,… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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13. Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn

4.15

Format: 722 pages, Kindle Edition

2005 15th anniversary edition reprint Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the … read more

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  • audiobook
  • buddhism
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"We tend to see more through our thoughts and opinions than through our eyes."

-Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

"Awareness requires only that we pay attention and see things as they are. It doesn't require that we change anything."

-Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

"Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time."

-Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

"Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself."

-Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

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14. Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book

By: Dan Harris

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play … read more

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  • audiobook
  • buddhism
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Forget mindfulness. You just have to be a gorgeous lazy slacker."

-Dan Harris, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book

"I have a friend, a fellow meditator, who jokes that when he considers the voice in his head, he feels like he's been kidnapped by the most boring person alive, who says the same baloney over and over…"

-Dan Harris, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book

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15. No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism (The No Self Wisdom Series)

By: Chris Niebauer

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

While in grad school in the early 1990s, Chris Niebauer began to notice striking parallels between … read more

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  • audiobook
  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Perhaps the reason we can't find the self in the brain is because it isn't there."

-Chris Niebauer, No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism (The No Self Wisdom Series)

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16. The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed

By: Ash Ali

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

We all have unfair advantages in life, whether we happen to be quick, have a talent for maths, a gr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
"One of the biggest ‘hacks’ or shortcuts to personal growth and development is via those we spend our time with."

-Ash Ali, The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed

"Location affects the vibe that you’re infected with. It’s said that you become the average of the five people you spend the most time with, so being surrounded by innovative and entrepreneurial peopl…"

-Ash Ali, The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed

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17. Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

By: Mark Epstein

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or a great Buddhist teacher, but Mark Epstein is … read more

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  • audiobook
  • buddhism
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"The ego's instinctive favoring of itself is eroded by a sense of the infinite"

-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

"There is much self-esteem to be gained from learning how and when to surrender."

-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

"The most important events in our lives, from falling in love to giving birth to facing death, all require the ego to let go."

-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

"We are already equipped to meet whatever befalls us. Life's challenges are challenging, but there is room for faith, for confidence, even for optimism."

-Mark Epstein, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

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18. Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World

By: Sharon Salzberg

4.09

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of most prominent figures in the field of meditation comes a guidebook for how to use mind… read more

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  • audiobook
  • buddhism
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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19. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds by Lauren Slater

20. Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

By: Lauren Slater

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

A groundbreaking and revelatory history of our major psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilar… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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21. The Clinton Vision: Old Wine, New Bottles

By: Noam Chomsky

4.06

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

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  • philosophy
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4.53

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Shawn Achor

3.59

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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

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

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4.15

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Morgan Housel

4.19

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Adam M. Grant

4.12

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Natalie Haynes

4.07

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