8 must-read spirituality books like Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter by Melody Beattie

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Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter

By: Melody Beattie

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

“Melody Beattie gives you the tools to discover the magnificence and splendor of your being.” — Dee…

If you liked the spirituality plot in Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter by Melody Beattie , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Hannah Coulter

By: Wendell Berry

4.38

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more

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"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

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2. The Dance Of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

By: Harriet Lerner

3.94

Format: None pages,

"Anger is a signal and one worth listening to,"writes Dr. Harriet Lerner, in her renowned classic t… read more

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  • relationships
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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3. Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence

By: Sarah Young

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After many years of writing her own words in her prayer journal, missionary Sarah Young decided to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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4. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

By: Elaine N. Aron

3.85

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

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5. 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

Similar categories in Lindsay C. Gibson's Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents book and Melody Beattie's Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter

  • relationships
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • 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

6. You Can Heal Your Life

By: Louise L. Hay

3.92

Format: 594 pages,

Louise's key message in this powerful work is: "If we are willing to do the mental work, almost any… read more

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7. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

By: Michael A. Singer

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can y… read more

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8. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By: Susan Cain

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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9. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

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10. 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 Melody Beattie's Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • 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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11. How to Keep House While Drowning

By: K.C. Davis

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."

-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

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12. How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

By: Nicole LePera

4.14

Format: 320 pages, ebook

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of … read more

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  • relationships
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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13. Worthy

By: Jada Pinkett Smith

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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14. Don't Believe Everything You Think

By: Joseph Nguyen

3.76

Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn how to overcome anxiety, self-doubt & self-sabotage without needing to rely on motivation or … read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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15. Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut

By: Sherrie Campbell

4.34

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and tow… read more

Similar categories in Sherrie Campbell's Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut book and Melody Beattie's Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter

  • relationships
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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16. Two Women Walk into a Bar

By: Cheryl Strayed

4.06

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things , finds humor and connecti… read more

Similar categories in Cheryl Strayed's Two Women Walk into a Bar book and Melody Beattie's Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter

  • nonfiction
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17. The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments

By: Hadley Vlahos

4.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy… read more

Similar categories in Hadley Vlahos's The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments book and Melody Beattie's Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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18. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

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"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

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19. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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20. Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self

By: Thema Bryant-Davis

4.40

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A road map for dismantling the fear and shame that keep you from living a free and authentic life. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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21. Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter

By: Melody Beattie

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

“Melody Beattie gives you the tools to discover the magnificence and splendor of your being.” — Dee… read more

Similar categories in Melody Beattie's Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter book and Melody Beattie's Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter

  • relationships
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help

17 must-read nonfiction books like Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter by Melody Beattie

Transform Your Habits

The Dance Of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

Harriet Lerner

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence

Sarah Young

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

Elaine N. Aron

3.85

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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16 best-selling audiobook books like Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

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

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Bruce D. Perry

4.44

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