14 Top self help books like Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind by The School of Life

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Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind

By: The School of Life

4.29

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

We all experience anxiety, but too often we bottle up our anxiousness, ashamed of what others might…

If you liked the self help plot in Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind by The School of Life , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction

By: Gary Wilson , Anthony Jack

4.22

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

When high speed internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began t… read more

Similar categories in Gary Wilson's Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction book and The School of Life's Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind

  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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2. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert

By: John M. Gottman , Nan Silver

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage by using rigorous scientific procedures to ob… read more

Similar categories in John M. Gottman's The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert book and The School of Life's Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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3. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.25

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Here, T… read more

Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering book and The School of Life's Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

"The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

"If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tende…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

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4. Models: Attract Women Through Honesty

By: Mark Manson

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Models is the first book ever written on seduction as an emotional process rather than a logical on… read more

Similar categories in Mark Manson's Models: Attract Women Through Honesty book and The School of Life's Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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5. Turning Pro

By: Steven Pressfield

4.61

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow up to the War of Art. In the War of Art Pressfield identifies the enemy to living an aut… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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6. A Very Easy Death

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

4.04

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly… read more

Similar categories in Simone de Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death book and The School of Life's Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"«A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente»."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"«No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de "algo"»."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"Sorumlusu olmadığım halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da bağışlatamayacağım bir günahın, umutsuzluk içinde, cezasını çekiyordum."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

7. The Architecture of Happiness

By: Alain de Botton

3.57

Format: None pages,

One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our en… read more

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8. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

By: Olivia Laing

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more

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9. How Proust Can Change Your Life

By: Alain de Botton

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-mil… read more

Similar categories in Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life book and The School of Life's Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"It is, unfortunately, easier to lose a lover than complete In Search of Lost Time. "

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

"For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit."

-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

10. The Art of Travel

By: Alain de Botton

3.89

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Any Baedeker will tell us wherewe ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us howand why… read more

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11. How to Think More About Sex

By: Alain de Botton

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Covering such topics as adultery, lust, pornography and impotence, Alain de Botton argues that 21st… read more

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12. How to Stay Sane

By: Philippa Perry

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everyone accepts the importance of physical health: isn't it just as important to aim for the menta… read more

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13. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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14. Everything Is OK

By: Debbie Tung

4.31

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Quiet Girl in a Noisy World comes a gently humorous and poignant col… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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15. Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

By: Maggie Smith

3.89

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Marie Claire’s The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now The Washington Post’s What to Read in 2020 B… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Do not be ashamed of the intensity of your emotion. That's your humanity. Grief can be feral, wild, frightening. Give it a safe place to live."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"Everything is temporary. You can't keep a white-knuckled hold on what you love or on what has hurt you. Loosen your grip on your grief today, if only a bit."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"Stop calling your heart broken; your heart works just fine. If you are feeling--love, anger, gratitude, grief--it is because your heart is doing its work. Let it."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are. Be wary of those who don't want you to change or grow. Grow anyway--there is no alternative."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

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16. The School of Life: An Emotional Education

By: Alain de Botton

4.25

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life... Introduce… read more

Similar categories in Alain de Botton's The School of Life: An Emotional Education book and The School of Life's Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life

By: Paul Millerd

4.00

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

With 40k global sales, The Pathless Path has become a surprise best-seller. The book has received a… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. It's OK to Feel Things Deeply

By: Carissa Potter

3.77

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From Carissa Potter, whose stationery and gift line, People I've Loved , has been featured on Desig… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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19. Your Head is a Houseboat: A Chaotic Guide to Mental Clarity

By: Campbell Walker

4.44

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Your Head is a Houseboat is uniquely hilarious guide to what goes on in your brain, from illustrati… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"You’re not to blame for letting these Freeloaders onboard, but it’s up to you to kick them out."

-Campbell Walker, Your Head is a Houseboat: A Chaotic Guide to Mental Clarity

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20. Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind

By: The School of Life

4.29

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

We all experience anxiety, but too often we bottle up our anxiousness, ashamed of what others might… read more

Similar categories in The School of Life's Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind book and The School of Life's Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Just Go With It (Nashville is Calling, #1)

By: Madison Wright

3.57

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Lo Summers’ life is falling apart. In a matter of weeks, she’s lost her job and her home. To top… read more

Similar categories in Madison Wright's Just Go With It (Nashville is Calling, #1) book and The School of Life's Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind

  • audiobook

7 must-read audiobook books like Anxiety: Meditations on the Anxious Mind by The School of Life

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Gary Wilson , Anthony Jack

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

Maggie Smith

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The School of Life: An Emotional Education

Alain de Botton

4.25

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Transform Your Habits

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

Steve Chandler

4.01

Transform Your Habits

This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True

M.J. Ryan

3.82

Transform Your Habits

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Manoush Zomorodi

4.00

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The School of Life

4.12

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