16 Best nonfiction books like The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life by Mark Epstein

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The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

By: Mark Epstein

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable exploration of the therapeutic relationship, Dr. Mark Epstein reflects on one year's w…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life by Mark Epstein , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki, Huston Smith, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker

1. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more

Similar categories in Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Waves are the practice of the water."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Cover of The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin D. Yalom, Nicola Ferguson

2. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

By: Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

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Similar categories in Irvin D. Yalom's The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help

3. The Art of Mindful Living: How to Bring Love, Compassion, and Inner Peace Into Your Daily Life

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Audio CD

Zen meditation master Thich Nhat Hanh offers his practical teachings about how to bring love and mi… read more

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4. Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Bring You Joy

By: John Tarrant

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

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5. 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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6. I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression

By: Terrence Real

3.62

Format: 57 pages,

Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced psychotherapist Terrence R… read more

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Cover of Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection by Julie Schwartz Gottman

7. Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection

By: Julie Schwartz Gottman

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

LEARN THE 5 SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL COUPLES Conflict is the top reason couples seek help—but it's al… read more

Similar categories in Julie Schwartz Gottman's Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book by Dan   Harris

8. 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

Similar categories in Dan Harris's Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • buddhism
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv

9. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Aviv's Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Cover of The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club) by Martha N. Beck

10. The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Martha N. Beck

4.17

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author, life coach, and sociologist Martha Beck explains why “ integrity ”— needed now … read more

Similar categories in Martha N. Beck's The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club) book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma by Galit Atlas

11. Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

By: Galit Atlas

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients' stories—and her own life experie… read more

Similar categories in Galit Atlas's Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chodron

12. How We Live Is How We Die

By: Pema Chodron

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more

Similar categories in Pema Chodron's How We Live Is How We Die book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • buddhism
  • health
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher

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

By: Janina Fisher

4.53

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understan… read more

Similar categories in Janina Fisher's Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery by Nicole LePera

14. How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery

By: Nicole LePera

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Most people are stuck living life on autopilot. Are you ready to break free? At the root of all… read more

Similar categories in Nicole LePera's How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Cold by Drew Hayden Taylor

15. Cold

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for the… read more

Similar categories in Drew Hayden Taylor's Cold book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • audiobook
Cover of Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World by Sharon Salzberg

16. 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

Similar categories in Sharon Salzberg's Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • buddhism
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life by Mark Epstein

17. The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

By: Mark Epstein

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable exploration of the therapeutic relationship, Dr. Mark Epstein reflects on one year's w… read more

Similar categories in Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • buddhism
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Finding Fulfillment by Frank Tallis

18. The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Finding Fulfillment

By: Frank Tallis

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Life and its meaning is a mystery almost impossible to solve, but what can the leading theories tea… read more

Similar categories in Frank Tallis's The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Finding Fulfillment book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being by Christy Harrison

19. The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being

By: Christy Harrison

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing critique of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being that … read more

Similar categories in Christy Harrison's The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • audiobook
  • health
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Being Ram Dass by Ram Dass

20. Being Ram Dass

By: Ram Dass

4.60

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

“Ram Dass lived a full life and then some. His final statement is thorough and, yes, enlightening.”… read more

Similar categories in Ram Dass's Being Ram Dass book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • buddhism
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Deb Dana

21. Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

By: Deb Dana

3.84

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Bringing the benefits of polyvagal theory to readers through easy-to-implement exercises. Here, for… read more

Similar categories in Deb Dana's Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) book and Mark Epstein's The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health

14 Best audiobook books like The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life by Mark Epstein

Transform Your Habits

Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection

Julie Schwartz Gottman

4.57

Transform Your Habits

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

Dan Harris

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Rachel Aviv

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club)

Martha N. Beck

4.17

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14 Top audiobook books like The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club) by Martha N. Beck

Transform Your Habits

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

Stephen Mitchell , Byron Katie

0.00

Transform Your Habits

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

Susan Cain

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

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