9 Best self help books like The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having by JoEllen Notte

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The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

By: JoEllen Notte

4.29

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Almost everyone has had some interaction with depression. Whether it’s you, a family member, a frie…

If you liked the self help plot in The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having by JoEllen Notte , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

By: Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt

3.93

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethicall… read more

Similar categories in Dossie Easton's The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • relationships
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • self help
"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

Cover of Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships by Tristan Taormino

2. Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

By: Tristan Taormino

4.10

Format: 668 pages,

Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating… read more

Similar categories in Tristan Taormino's Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • relationships
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • self help
Cover of Ask: Building Consent Culture by Kitty Stryker

3. Ask: Building Consent Culture

By: Kitty Stryker

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Have you ever heard the phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?" Violating consent … read more

Similar categories in Kitty Stryker's Ask: Building Consent Culture book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • sexuality

4. Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

By: Esther Perel

3.79

Format: 704 pages,

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Cover of Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

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

By: Emily Nagoski

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more

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  • relationships
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • self help
"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

6. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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7. The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

By: Esther Perel

3.75

Format: 263 pages, ebook

Iconic couples' therapist and bestselling author of Mating in CaptivityEsther Perel returns with a … read more

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8. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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9. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

By: Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.62

Format: 590 pages, Hardcover

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more

Similar categories in Nikole Hannah-Jones's The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • nonfiction
Cover of Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

10. Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

By: Jessica Fern

4.40

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate se… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Fern's Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • relationships
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • self help
"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Cover of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

11. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Hersey's Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne

12. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne

4.25

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Manne's Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • self help
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • health
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13. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

By: Samra Habib

4.16

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more

Similar categories in Samra Habib's We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • nonfiction
"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

Cover of Sucker Punch (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #27) by Laurell K. Hamilton

14. Sucker Punch (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #27)

By: Laurell K. Hamilton

3.98

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A brutal murder, a suspect in jail, and an execution planned, but what if the wrong person is about… read more

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15. Beyond the Gender Binary

By: Alok Vaid-Menon

4.49

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Beyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not … read more

Similar categories in Alok Vaid-Menon's Beyond the Gender Binary book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • nonfiction
"I learned about gender through shame."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"Critiquing gender is not the same thing as creating gender."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

Cover of Sex Talks: The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life by Vanessa Marin

16. Sex Talks: The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life

By: Vanessa Marin

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The definitive guide to creating the sex life of your wildest dreams—just by talking about it!—from… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Marin's Sex Talks: The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • relationships
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • self help
Cover of Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom by Gypsy-Rose Blanchard

17. Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom

By: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard

3.54

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard discovered that her whole life was a lie. After eight-and-a-half years of inca… read more

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  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy by Rachel  Krantz

18. Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy

By: Rachel Krantz

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning journalist delves into the growing trend toward relationships--including her own--… read more

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  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
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19. Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

By: Rachel E. Gross

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A scientific journey to the center of the new female body. The Latin term for the female genital… read more

Similar categories in Rachel E. Gross's Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • nonfiction
  • health
"Medicine is supposed to be unbiased," she says. "But when we look at the bigger picture of it, we can see that it is far from that."

-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

"Darwin's attitudes toward women were a direct outgrowth of his ideas about other animals—or, rather, each reinforced the other. Throughout his career, he insisted that female animals were less capabl…"

-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

"Your vagina is another planet. If you could shrink down to the size of a grain of sand and go between your own legs, you'd find a wondrous realm of humid jungles, cool caves, and viscous pits of mucu…"

-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

Cover of Attachment Theory: A Guide to Strengthening the Relationships in Your Life by Thais Gibson

20. Attachment Theory: A Guide to Strengthening the Relationships in Your Life

By: Thais Gibson

3.97

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Build powerful current and future relationships by understanding your past In order to improve clo… read more

Similar categories in Thais Gibson's Attachment Theory: A Guide to Strengthening the Relationships in Your Life book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • relationships
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having by JoEllen Notte

21. The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

By: JoEllen Notte

4.29

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Almost everyone has had some interaction with depression. Whether it’s you, a family member, a frie… read more

Similar categories in JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having book and JoEllen Notte's The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

  • relationships
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • self help

17 best-selling nonfiction books like The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having by JoEllen Notte

Transform Your Habits

The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

Tristan Taormino

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Ask: Building Consent Culture

Kitty Stryker

3.91

Transform Your Habits

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

Emily Nagoski

4.29

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5 best-selling audiobook books like Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

Transform Your Habits

More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

Tatiana Gill , Franklin Veaux , Eve Rickert , None

4.22

Transform Your Habits

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

Emily Nagoski

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

Emily Nagoski

4.14

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