17 Best psychology books like Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma by Elizabeth A. Stanley

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Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

By: Elizabeth A. Stanley

4.10

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

"I don't think I've ever read a book that paints such a complex and accurate landscape of what it i…

If you liked the psychology plot in Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma by Elizabeth A. Stanley , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Healing the Shame that Binds You

By: John Bradshaw

4.09

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

“I used to drink,” writes John Bradshaw, “to solve the problems caused by drinking. The more I dran… read more

Similar categories in John Bradshaw's Healing the Shame that Binds You book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • personal development
  • health
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are."

-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

"Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive."

-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

"True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love."

-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

"Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically."

-John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

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2. Healing from Trauma: A Survivor's Guide to Understanding Your Symptoms and Reclaiming Your Life

By: Robert C. Scaer , Jasmin Lee Cori , Robert Scaer

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

While there are many different approaches to healing trauma, few offer a wide range of perspectives… read more

Similar categories in Robert C. Scaer's Healing from Trauma: A Survivor's Guide to Understanding Your Symptoms and Reclaiming Your Life book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • health
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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3. Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

By: Jonice Webb , Christine Musello

4.01

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Running on Emptyis the first self-help book about Emotional Neglect: an invisible force from your c… read more

Similar categories in Jonice Webb's Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help

4. The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed

By: Jasmin Lee Cori

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Was your mother too busy, too tired, or too checked-out to provide you with the nurturing you neede… read more

Similar categories in Jasmin Lee Cori's The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help

5. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more

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6. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

By: Pete Walker

3.99

Format: 512 pages,

I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced… read more

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7. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

By: Peter A. Levine , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma... Waking the Tigeroffers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It… read more

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8. Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life

By: Jill Bolte Taylor

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author of My Stroke of Insight blends neuroanatomy with psychology … read more

Similar categories in Jill Bolte Taylor's Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

Similar categories in Richard C. Schwartz's No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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10. Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers r… read more

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Sick and weak are not useful entries in the dictionary of self-understanding."

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

"Given their automatic tuning out, ADD children forever find themselves being told to “pay attention"

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

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

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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12. Anchored

By: Deb Dana

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Discover your body’s neural pathways to calmness, safety, and connection. An intense conversation,… read more

Similar categories in Deb Dana's Anchored book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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13. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

By: Fuchsia Dunlop

4.26

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thir… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In cooking as with love, it's not easy to ensure that both ingredients reach their climaxes of perfection simultaneously."

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"Appetite for food and sex is human nature, shi se xing ye ,' as the philosopher Gaozi said. Or, as the popular saying derived from the Book of Rites puts it: 'Eat, drink, man, woman' ( yin shi nan nü…"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its …"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"Trying to categorize Chinese regional cuisines makes me dizzy. You can travel and travel and travel around China and taste new foods every single day, which is pretty much what I have been doing for …"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

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14. Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing

By: David A. Treleaven

4.40

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

"[A] rare combination of solid scholarship, clinically useful methods, and passionate advocacy for … read more

Similar categories in David A. Treleaven's Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • personal development
  • health
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Posttraumatic stress fundamentally challenges the notion that time can heal all wounds."

-David A. Treleaven, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing

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15. 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 Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)

By: Terrence Real

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Stop working on yourself as an individual and start working on your relationship as a couple, with … read more

Similar categories in Terrence Real's Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press) book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • self help
  • personal development
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"So, here's the first tip for working on your partner's core negative image of you: the more you refute it, the more you'll reinforce it. But the more you admit to the kernel of truth within your part…"

-Terrence Real, Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)

"First, repair is not a two-way street. Almost everyone gets this wrong. When you are faced with an upset partner, this is not your turn. This is not a dialogue. Liz doesn't air all her grievances as …"

-Terrence Real, Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)

"When you're dissatisfied with an aspect of your relationship, it is critical that you say something rather than sweep it aside. But there's a difference between speaking the way most of us do in this…"

-Terrence Real, Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)

"When you share your feelings, skip over the emotion that first comes to you, your go-to emotion, and lead with others. ... More specifically, if you are used to leading with big, powerful feelings, l…"

-Terrence Real, Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press)

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17. Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us

By: Stephen W. Porges

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The creator of the Polyvagal Theory explains the principles in simple terms that are accessible to … read more

Similar categories in Stephen W. Porges's Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • science
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime by Julie Menanno

18. Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime

By: Julie Menanno

4.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Create a lasting and loving attachment with the help of the expert couple’s therapist behind the po… read more

Similar categories in Julie Menanno's Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

By: Elizabeth A. Stanley

4.10

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

"I don't think I've ever read a book that paints such a complex and accurate landscape of what it i… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma book and Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • brain
  • nonfiction
  • science
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20. 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 Elizabeth A. Stanley's Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything by James R. Doty

21. Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

By: James R. Doty

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing you… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science

10 Top audiobook books like Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma by Elizabeth A. Stanley

Transform Your Habits

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

Gabor Maté

4.32

Transform Your Habits

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

Gabor Maté

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Anchored

Deb Dana

3.96

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14 must-read audiobook books like Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press) by Terrence Real

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

Peter Attia

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Becky Kennedy

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection

Julie Schwartz Gottman

4.57

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