9 Best mental health books like When It's Never About You: The People-Pleaser's Guide to Reclaiming Your Health, Happiness and Personal Freedom by Ilene S. Cohen

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When It's Never About You: The People-Pleaser's Guide to Reclaiming Your Health, Happiness and Personal Freedom

By: Ilene S. Cohen

4.09

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you sometimes feel as if you exist only to satisfy others wants and needs, but never your own? I…

If you liked the mental health plot in When It's Never About You: The People-Pleaser's Guide to Reclaiming Your Health, Happiness and Personal Freedom by Ilene S. Cohen , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Writing Life

By: Annie Dillard

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. 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

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  • relationships
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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3. What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

By: James Hollis

3.66

Format: None pages,

Why are we here? What is the meaning of existence? What truly matters the most in life? We have all… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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4. The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

By: Gavin de Becker

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US's leading expert on vi… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook

5. The Yamas Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice

By: Deborah Adele

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

The first two limbs of the eight-fold path of yoga sutras--the basic text for classical yoga--are e… read more

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6. Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship

By: Harville Hendrix , Stan Tatkin

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

""What the heck is my partner thinking?"" is a common refrain in romantic relationships, and with g… read more

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7. How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

By: David Richo

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

"Most people think of love as a feeling," says David Richo, "but love is not so much a feeling as a… read more

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8. Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life

By: Henry Cloud , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. A boundary is a personal pro… read more

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9. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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10. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

By: Anna Lembke

3.91

Format: 304 pages, ebook

This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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11. Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

By: Ryan Holiday

4.28

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"We must master ourselves unless we'd prefer to be mastered by someone or something else."

-Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

"We must practice temperance now, in times of plenty, because none of us know what the future holds- only that plenty never lasts."

-Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

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12. Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time

By: Laura Khoudari

3.67

Format: None pages, None

A celebrated strength trainer and trauma practitioner offers a fresh and empowering approach to hea… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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13. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

By: Max Fisher

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"

-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

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

By: Emily Nagoski

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship, from t… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nagoski's Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections book and Ilene S. Cohen's When It's Never About You: The People-Pleaser's Guide to Reclaiming Your Health, Happiness and Personal Freedom

  • relationships
  • self help
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Not Nice: Stop People Pleasing, Staying Silent, & Feeling Guilty... And Start Speaking Up, Saying No, Asking Boldly, And Unapologetically Being Yourself

By: Aziz Gazipura

4.00

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Are You Too Nice? If you find it hard to be assertive, directly ask for what you want, or say "no" … read more

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  • relationships
  • self help
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

By: Johann Hari

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the Wa… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"If you picture of a perfect After-life, it's being with the people you love all the time. He asked me: Why wouldn't you choose today: when you're still alive, to be truely present with the people you…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"...Every one of the social and psychological causes of depression and anxiety they have discovered has something in common. They are all forms of disconnection. They are all ways in which we have bee…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"Un día descubrió que nunca podía desembarazarse de «esa sensación de no tener un futuro». Ni siquiera se veía capaz de planificar con unos días de antelación. Los comentarios de sus amigos sobre hipo…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"Robert Kohlenberg, a professor of psychology, once thought that depression and anxiety were different things. But as he studied it, he discovered that "the data are indicating they're not that distin…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

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17. Nosy Neighbors

By: Freya Sampson

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Two neighbors-at-war band together to stop a dangerous criminal in their midst in this enthralling … read more

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  • audiobook
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18. Power of Attachment

By: Diane Poole Heller

4.29

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How traumatic events can break our vital connections―and how to restore love, wholeness, and resili… read more

Similar categories in Diane Poole Heller's Power of Attachment book and Ilene S. Cohen's When It's Never About You: The People-Pleaser's Guide to Reclaiming Your Health, Happiness and Personal Freedom

  • relationships
  • self help
  • parenting
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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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  • relationships
  • self help
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. When It's Never About You: The People-Pleaser's Guide to Reclaiming Your Health, Happiness and Personal Freedom

By: Ilene S. Cohen

4.09

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you sometimes feel as if you exist only to satisfy others wants and needs, but never your own? I… read more

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  • relationships
  • self help
  • parenting
  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

21. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

14 best-selling audiobook books like When It's Never About You: The People-Pleaser's Guide to Reclaiming Your Health, Happiness and Personal Freedom by Ilene S. Cohen

Transform Your Habits

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

Gavin de Becker

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Anna Lembke

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

Ryan Holiday

4.28

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10 Best audiobook books like Power of Attachment by Diane Poole Heller

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

10 Principles for Doing Effective Couples Therapy

Julie Schwartz Gottman

4.33

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

Anchored

Deb Dana

3.96

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