10 must-read mental health books like The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma by James S. Gordon

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The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma

By: James S. Gordon

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

 A world-recognized authority and acclaimed mind-body medicine pioneer presents the first evidenced…

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Cover of It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

1. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

By: Mark Wolynn

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generatio… read more

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  • health
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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2. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

By: Emil Ferris

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monstersis… read more

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3. The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life

By: Jeffrey S. Bland

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For decades, Dr. Jeffrey Bland has been on the cutting edge of Functional Medicine, which seeks to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
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4. Healing Trauma

By: Peter A. Levine

4.04

Format: 130 pages, Audio CD

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than 23 million Americans suffer from an… read more

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  • health
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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5. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By: Paulo Coelho , Alan R. Clarke , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly p… read more

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  • spirituality
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6. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more

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  • health
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

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. Healthy Aging

By: Andrew Weil

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Hugely informative, practical, and uplifting. Healthy Agingis infused with the engaging candor and … read more

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9. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more

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10. Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

By: Lisa Cron

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that … read more

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11. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

By: Marisa G. Franco

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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12. My Name Was Eden

By: Eleanor Barker-White

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this edge-of-your-seat psychological debut, a mother’s experience with Vanishing Twin Syndrome t… read more

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13. 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

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  • health
  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"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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14. Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

By: Kelly McDaniel

4.15

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and p… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Ramani Durvasula

15. It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

By: Ramani Durvasula

4.58

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more

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  • health
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"You may have had the belief that to forgive is divine but have come to learn that to discern may be transcendent."

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"Radical acceptance of the injustice is part of this process-it not fair, I cannot change it; I can, however, chart a different and authentic course forward and learn from this. Be kind to yourself, t…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive func…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

Cover of My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts by Resmaa Menakem

16. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

By: Resmaa Menakem

4.40

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trau… read more

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  • health
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about learning and expressing regard, compassion and love."

-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

"In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we're broken or we've healed from that brokenness. But that's not how healing operates, and it's almost never how human gro…"

-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

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17. Friendshipped (Getting Shipped! #1)

By: Savannah Scott

3.67

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

Can you keep a secret? ... I'm in love with my best friend. There are three things you should kn… read more

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"Hey, Trevor,"

-Savannah Scott, Friendshipped (Getting Shipped! #1)

Cover of Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo

18. Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

By: Robin DiAngelo

3.96

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

In Nice Racism, her follow-up work to White Fragility, the author draws on her background as a soci… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"…every moment that I spend in white space reinforces in me a particular (and limited) worldview and experience. But the deeper message being reinforced is that we lose nothing of value by living in s…"

-Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

Cover of Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime by Julie Menanno

19. 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

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body  Defy Aging by Ben Greenfield

20. Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body Defy Aging

By: Ben Greenfield

4.25

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

What if the ability to look, feel, and perform at peak capacity wasn’t the stuff of lore but instea… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • health
Cover of The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma by James S. Gordon

21. The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma

By: James S. Gordon

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

 A world-recognized authority and acclaimed mind-body medicine pioneer presents the first evidenced… read more

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  • social science
  • health
  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help

13 Top nonfiction books like The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma by James S. Gordon

Transform Your Habits

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life

Jeffrey S. Bland

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Healing Trauma

Peter A. Levine

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

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Transform Your Habits

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

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Bruce D. Perry

4.44

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