8 Top self help books like The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening by David Rakel

Cover of The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening by David Rakel

The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

By: David Rakel

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All of us have an innate capacity for compassion. We recognize when others are hurting, and we want…

If you liked the self help plot in The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening by David Rakel , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah's Scribbles, #1) by Sarah Andersen

1. Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah's Scribbles, #1)

By: Sarah Andersen

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Are you a special snowflake? Do you enjoy networking to advance your career? Is adulthood an exciti… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Andersen's Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah's Scribbles, #1) book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • nonfiction
Cover of Impulse (Impulse, #1) by Ellen Hopkins

2. Impulse (Impulse, #1)

By: Ellen Hopkins

3.92

Format: 98 pages,

Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same. Three li… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1) book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • mental health
Cover of The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin D. Yalom, Nicola Ferguson

3. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

By: Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Irvin D. Yalom's The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health

4. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

By: Meik Wiking

3.41

Format: None pages,

Denmark is often said to be the happiest country in the world. That's down to one thing: hygge. 'Hy… read more

Similar categories in Meik Wiking's The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

5. Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity

By: Ronald Epstein

3.81

Format: None pages,

The first book about mindfulness and medical practice, a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of ho… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Epstein's Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

6. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

By: Dan Harris

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to… read more

Similar categories in Dan Harris's 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

7. Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

By: Sarah Manguso

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn't realize we needed." --The New Yorker In Ongoingness, Sa… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Ongoingness: The End of a Diary book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

8. Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician

By: Sandeep Jauhar

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

The New York TimesBestseller "An extraordinary, brave and even shocking document. Dr. Jauhar's shar… read more

Similar categories in Sandeep Jauhar's Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

Cover of The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

9. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

By: Timothy Egan

4.05

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like no… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems."

-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

"Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What …"

-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Cover of The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead

10. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Stead's The Lost Library book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • audiobook
"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

Cover of The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers

11. The Eyes and the Impossible

By: Dave Eggers

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals. Johanne… read more

Similar categories in Dave Eggers's The Eyes and the Impossible book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • audiobook
"What monster would turn up his snout at the thought-through help of all the friends he had?"

-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible

"Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is th…"

-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible

Cover of The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

12. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

Similar categories in Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Place Called Home by David Ambroz

13. A Place Called Home

By: David Ambroz

4.64

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

PORCHLIGHT BESTSELLER Zibby Owens 2022 Book of the Year A galvanizing, stirring memoir about gr… read more

Similar categories in David Ambroz's A Place Called Home book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Heavy by Kiese Laymon

14. Heavy

By: Kiese Laymon

4.48

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more

Similar categories in Kiese Laymon's Heavy book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."

-Kiese Laymon, Heavy

Cover of Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World by Neil Gaiman

15. Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

By: Neil Gaiman

4.30

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gai… read more

Similar categories in Neil Gaiman's Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art."

-Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

"Physical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath resistant, solar operated, feel good in your hand: they are good at being books, and there will always be a place for them."

-Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

"I love the way words and pictures work together on a page. I have also noticed how when wise words have visuals added to them, they seem to travel further online, like paper aeroplanes catching an up…"

-Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

"I decided that I would do my best in future not to write books just for the money. If you didn't get the money, then you didn't have anything. If I did work I was proud of, and I didn't get the money…"

-Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

Cover of Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It by Brian D. McLaren

16. Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It

By: Brian D. McLaren

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world … read more

Similar categories in Brian D. McLaren's Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth by Meg Bowles

17. How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth

By: Meg Bowles

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years… read more

Similar categories in Meg Bowles's How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • communication
  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness by Vivek H. Murthy

18. Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness

By: Vivek H. Murthy

4.24

Format: 352 pages, ebook

In this groundbreaking book, Former Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy argues that … read more

Similar categories in Vivek H. Murthy's Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • relationships
  • self help
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Today it's widely understood that one of the most important factors in preventing and addressing toxic stress in children is healthy social connection."

-Vivek H. Murthy, Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness

"The structure of operations also encourages connection. Any employee can attend meetings of any department, including Zingerman's board meeting. A truck driver can help plan a menu, and a chef can he…"

-Vivek H. Murthy, Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness

"The fact is, [University of Michigan organizational behavior professor Dr.] Wayne [Baker] said, most people do want to help. But that's not always intuitive. "We've shown that engaging in the process…"

-Vivek H. Murthy, Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness

Cover of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness by Rick     Hanson

19. Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

By: Rick Hanson

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The culmination of New York Times bestselling author and respected psychologist Rick Hanson's work,… read more

Similar categories in Rick Hanson's Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of The Gentle Discipline Book by Ockwell-Smith Sarah

20. The Gentle Discipline Book

By: Ockwell-Smith Sarah

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Discipline is an essential part of raising happy and successful kids, but as more and more parents … read more

Similar categories in Ockwell-Smith Sarah's The Gentle Discipline Book book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • self help
Cover of The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening by David Rakel

21. The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

By: David Rakel

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All of us have an innate capacity for compassion. We recognize when others are hurting, and we want… read more

Similar categories in David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening book and David Rakel's The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening

  • communication
  • relationships
  • self help
  • psychology
  • death
  • mental health
  • social
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook

13 Top audiobook books like The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening by David Rakel

Transform Your Habits

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Library

Rebecca Stead

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Eyes and the Impossible

Dave Eggers

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

View all the books

9 Best fiction books like Impulse (Impulse, #1) by Ellen Hopkins

Transform Your Habits

Suicide Notes

Michael Thomas Ford

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Lucy in the Sky

Anonymous

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Impulse (Impulse, #1)

Ellen Hopkins

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Sara Pascoe

4.30

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.