12 must-read self help books like Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World by Kate Johnson

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Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

By: Kate Johnson

4.14

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A case for friendship as a radical practice of love, courage, and trust, and seven strategies that …

If you liked the self help plot in Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World by Kate Johnson , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World by Pema Chödrön

1. The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

By: Pema Chödrön

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's true, as they say, that we can only love others when we first love ourselves and we can only e… read more

Similar categories in Pema Chödrön's The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help

2. 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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3. You Are The One You've Been Waiting For: Bringing Courageous Love To Intimate Relationships

By: Richard C. Schwartz , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In this new audio version, Richard Schwartz, the developer of the Internal Family Systems Model, ap… read more

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4. The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

By: None

3.20

Format: 192 pages,

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of ev… read more

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

5. 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 Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • 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 Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

6. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • nonfiction
  • self help
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Cover of The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen

7. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

By: Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more

Similar categories in Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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8. Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

By: John Waters

3.88

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

No one knows more about everything - especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling… read more

Similar categories in John Waters's Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • nonfiction
"Librarians are always smart, a little nuts, and know how to party."

-John Waters, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

"As soon as you stop listening to new music, your life is over. You are a fart."

-John Waters, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

Cover of How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chodron

9. How We Live Is How We Die

By: Pema Chodron

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more

Similar categories in Pema Chodron's How We Live Is How We Die book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart by Tara Brach

10. True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

By: Tara Brach

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you cope when facing life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old… read more

Similar categories in Tara Brach's True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path."

-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

"Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit."

-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

"You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh…"

-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

"The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first ste…"

-Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

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11. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, "a da… read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • nonfiction
"Remembering is the death of mercy."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

"It wasn't my first mutilation, but it was one of my best."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

"...if just this terrified you - the tip of a feather - how am I supposed to open up entire wings?"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

"What is love if not a shield thrown up around you when you are too injured to throw it up yourself?"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

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12. How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

By: Mia Birdsong

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An Invitation to Community and Models for Connection After almost every presentation activist a… read more

Similar categories in Mia Birdsong's How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • relationships
  • feminism
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Real Happiness: A 28-Day Program to Realize the Power of Meditation by Sharon Salzberg

13. Real Happiness: A 28-Day Program to Realize the Power of Meditation

By: Sharon Salzberg

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A New York Times best seller—now revised and updated with new exercises and guided meditations.“An … read more

Similar categories in Sharon Salzberg's Real Happiness: A 28-Day Program to Realize the Power of Meditation book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Let the breath lead the way."

-Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: A 28-Day Program to Realize the Power of Meditation

"Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it."

-Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: A 28-Day Program to Realize the Power of Meditation

"Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively."

-Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: A 28-Day Program to Realize the Power of Meditation

"We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones."

-Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: A 28-Day Program to Realize the Power of Meditation

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14. Content Warning: Everything

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.94

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Content Warning: Everything book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • nonfiction
Cover of Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow

15. Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

By: Aminatou Sow

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can cont… read more

Similar categories in Aminatou Sow's Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • relationships
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"I love that you've known every version of me. You were there at the beginning and I want you there at the end."

-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

"When you are obsessed with your friend's brain, it's natural to crave ordered conversations and excuses to go deeper."

-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

"It can be extremely hard to figure out the right amount of growth and sacrifice to be devoting to a friendship, because we're not taught that friends are worth stretching for at all. Your spouse? Def…"

-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Cover of Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon

16. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

By: Chantha Nguon

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more

Similar categories in Chantha Nguon's Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • nonfiction
"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"

-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

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17. One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life

By: Eddie Stern

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A pragmatic and succinct introduction to the purposes and benefits of yoga--philosophical, physiolo… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Stern's One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

18. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

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Cover of What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill

19. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World by Kate           Johnson

20. Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

By: Kate Johnson

4.14

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A case for friendship as a radical practice of love, courage, and trust, and seven strategies that … read more

Similar categories in Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World book and Kate Johnson's Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World

  • relationships
  • buddhism
  • love
  • feminism
  • politics
  • psychology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
Cover of Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy #12) by Adrienne Maree Brown

21. Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy #12)

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.53

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times–bestselling author adrienne maree brown transcends binary thinking about "accountabi… read more

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  • relationships
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

17 Best nonfiction books like Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World by Kate Johnson

Transform Your Habits

The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

Pema Chödrön

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

Rhaina Cohen

3.95

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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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