17 Top nonfiction books like Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief by Michelle Cassandra Johnson

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Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

4.15

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Learn how to process individual, intergenerational, and collective grief with this fierce and openh…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief by Michelle Cassandra Johnson , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

By: Francis Weller , Michael Lerner

4.40

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of … read more

Similar categories in Francis Weller's The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others."

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"Ritual is able to hold the long-discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the strength and elasticity to contain what we cannot contain on our own, what we cannot face in soli…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for wh…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby. In this way, we may be able to honor the losses and live our lives as carriers of their unf…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

2. 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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3. The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise

By: Martin Prechtel

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Inspiring hope, solace, and courage in living through our losses, author Martin Prechtel, trained i… read more

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4. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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5. 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

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
"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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6. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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7. 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 Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • 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

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8. 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 Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
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9. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

By: Priya Parker

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at wor… read more

Similar categories in Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Chill" is a selfishness disguised as kindness"

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"Good controversy is much more likely to happen when it is invited in but carefully structured."

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating."

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"Barack Obama's aunt once told him, 'If everyone is family, no one is family.' It is blood that makes a tribe, a border that makes a nation. The same is true of gatherings. So here is a corollary to h…"

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

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10. Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

By: Marisa Renee Lee

4.17

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Author Marisa Renee Lee reveals that healing does not mean moving on after losing a loved one heali… read more

Similar categories in Marisa Renee Lee's Grief Is Love: Living with Loss book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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11. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

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12. Lost & Found: A Memoir

By: Kathryn Schulz

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & F… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Schulz's Lost & Found: A Memoir book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • nonfiction
"For now, at least, the world is ours to notice and to change, and that seems to me sufficient. It is true that loss will ultimately part us from it, but it is also true, as I said earlier, that we ha…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

"One consequence of losing a parent—obvious enough, although it hadn't occurred to me beforehand—is that it reconfigures the rest of your family. All my life, it had been the four of us; to the extent…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

"What an astonishing thing it is to find someone. Loss may alter our sense of scale, reminding us that the world is overwhelmingly large while we are incredibly tiny. But finding does the same; the on…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

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13. 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 Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • self help
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14. You Better Be Lightning

By: Andrea Gibson

4.63

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's You Better Be Lightning book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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15. Embrace Yoga's Roots

By: Susanna Barkataki

4.27

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Embrace Yoga's Roots is for you if you practice, teach or want to learn yoga and integrate your val… read more

Similar categories in Susanna Barkataki's Embrace Yoga's Roots book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"You see, to be colonized is to become a stranger in your own land and culture."

-Susanna Barkataki, Embrace Yoga's Roots

"If our thought, speech or action is not bringing us right there, toward connection, it is not yoga."

-Susanna Barkataki, Embrace Yoga's Roots

"When we mistake yoga for a workout routine, reduce it to physical fitness or even practice some of the deeper practices without an eye to the whole system of liberation it offers, we rob ourselves an…"

-Susanna Barkataki, Embrace Yoga's Roots

"It’s for you, if you’ve ever been unsure, insecure or curious about how to practice yoga without causing harm. Even the best-intentioned can cause harm by taking yoga out of context or diluting the p…"

-Susanna Barkataki, Embrace Yoga's Roots

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16. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.31

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3) book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • activism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

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17. 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

Similar categories in Prentis Hemphill's What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
Cover of American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal by Kerri Kelly

18. American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal

By: Kerri Kelly

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Better, stronger, healthier, whole–the wellness industry promises us that with enough intention, in… read more

Similar categories in Kerri Kelly's American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • self help
"It wasn’t until I discovered what yoga isn’t that I truly understood what it really is. Yoga is not an escape from the harsh realities of our world. It is not a blissed-out bright-siding of the truth…"

-Kerri Kelly, American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal

"For me, disability wasn't in the chronic pain I experience to this day, nor the inability to sit or stand or walk for long periods of time, nor in being unable to carry bags while shopping or traveli…"

-Kerri Kelly, American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal

"The privilege that I'd experienced for most of my life had not only oriented me to see access and convenience as normal, but it completely invisibilized the experience that one in five Americans have…"

-Kerri Kelly, American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal

Cover of Nine Tailed (Realm of Four Kingdoms, #1) by Jayci Lee

19. Nine Tailed (Realm of Four Kingdoms, #1)

By: Jayci Lee

3.94

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

An enemy on her tails, an innocent at her side, and a dangerous power within her that could destroy… read more

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"Besides, I wouldn’t mess with the Greeks. Their mythology is part of the US public school curriculum."

-Jayci Lee, Nine Tailed (Realm of Four Kingdoms, #1)

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20. A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation

By: Jacoby Ballard

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Queer critique, queer practice: embodied teachings for healing from trauma and social injustice. … read more

Similar categories in Jacoby Ballard's A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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21. Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

4.15

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Learn how to process individual, intergenerational, and collective grief with this fierce and openh… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief book and Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • spirituality
  • activism
  • self help

6 must-read spirituality books like Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief by Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

Francis Weller , Michael Lerner

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

Marisa Renee Lee

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Embrace Yoga's Roots

Susanna Barkataki

4.27

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Transform Your Habits

The Monstrous Misses Mai

Van Hoang

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Still the Sun

Charlie N. Holmberg

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Curious Secrets of Yesterday

Namrata Patel

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Deeper Than the Dead (Vera Boyett, #1)

Debra Webb

4.07

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