What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma
By: Mike Mariani
3.69
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
A deep examination of what happens after life-altering events--from devastating car accidents to ye…
Want to Read $ 14.99"The identities people foster in their afterlives are rarely arrived at incidentally--they do not wander haphazardly into their passions, careers, perspectives, and beliefs. The individuals they become are forged in voids, sowed on fallow land, pursued against the finest of margins, and people seize on them because their survival in some sense depends on it."-Mike Mariani, What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma
"In Far from the Tree , Andrew Solomon writes, "It takes an act of will to grow from loss: the disruption provides the opportunity for growth, not the growth itself." Catastrophes do not trigger transformation; they only establish the conditions that increase the likelihood that we will pursue them. Only through our willful, persevering actions can we gradually remake our identities."-Mike Mariani, What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma
"The Lebanese American poet Kahlil Gibran wrote, "The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain." The catastrophes that carve themselves deep inside of us also leave us with increased depth, augmenting the volume of feeling we're able to hold. And how can we measure devotion but by how much the vessels that we become for our art, faith, saviors, and crusades have the capacity to contain?"-Mike Mariani, What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma
"Examining our behaviors and thought patterns demands sustained, uninterrupted self-work, and the fullness of our everyday lives and the finite attention spans that rove through them sometimes appear engineered to thwart personal investigations. For many, such an undertaking is undesirable in any case: Those of us content with our lives are not compelled to confront or interrogate our habits, lifestyles, or underlying beliefs. Contentment doesn't incentivize change--it does everything in its power to forestall it. But those of us learning to survive in the ill-disposed, unaccommodating terrain of afterlives--marooned on the desert islands we have little affinity for--must open ourselves up to it."-Mike Mariani, What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma
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By: Alice Miller , None
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
As charming performers who skillfully reflect their parents expectations, far too many children gro… read more
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2. The Probable Future
By: Alice Hoffman
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
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3. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
By: Clancy Martin
3.71
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more
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4. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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5. Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
By: Andy Borowitz
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines t… read more
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"Imagine a hypothetical job applicant. He can't spell the simplest words, such as "heal" and "tap". Confused by geography, he thinks there's an African country called "Nambia". As for American history…"-Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
6. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
7. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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8. Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
By: Pooja Lakshmin
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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9. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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10. It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
By: Ramani Durvasula
4.58
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
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"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
11. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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12. Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
By: Nicklas Brendborg
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Sunday Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" … read more
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13. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
By: Robert Waldinger
4.16
Format: 352 pages, ebook
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more
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14. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
By: Alua Arthur
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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15. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
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4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
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16. Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir
By: Daniel Barban Levin
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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17. Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI
By: Jana Monroe
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Mindhunter, Criminal Minds, and My Favorite Murder, a riveting memoir of a trailblazing… read more
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"The devil, or whatever force was behind that disembodied knife in her mind, has never made anyone do anything. The devil just applauds when it happens."-Jana Monroe, Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI
"Our answers were rarely found in confessional sessions in a jailhouse interrogation room despite how hard serial killers like Ted Bundy and Edmund Kemper tried to play their interviewers. Our answers…"-Jana Monroe, Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI
18. Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
By: Florence Williams
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects t… read more
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"I didn’t yet realize it was okay to be broken, that it was even, perhaps, essential to becoming a more porous animal capable of far more real love than I had known was possible. It would still take s…"-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
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19. The Women of Pearl Island
By: Polly Crosby
3.42
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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20. Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power
By: Devon Price
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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21. What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma
By: Mike Mariani
3.69
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
A deep examination of what happens after life-altering events--from devastating car accidents to ye… read more
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- philosophy
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"The identities people foster in their afterlives are rarely arrived at incidentally--they do not wander haphazardly into their passions, careers, perspectives, and beliefs. The individuals they becom…"-Mike Mariani, What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma
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"Examining our behaviors and thought patterns demands sustained, uninterrupted self-work, and the fullness of our everyday lives and the finite attention spans that rove through them sometimes appear …"-Mike Mariani, What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma
