16 Top nonfiction books like The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self by Chris Irons

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The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self

By: Chris Irons

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

There is good and increasing evidence that cultivating compassion for one's self and others can hav…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self by Chris Irons , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

By: Steven C. Hayes , Russ Harris

4.12

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Are you, like milllions of Americans, caught in the happiness trap? Russ Harris explains that the w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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2. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

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3. Myth of Self-Esteem: How Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Can Change Your Life Forever

By: Albert Ellis

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

What exactly is self-esteem? Most people, as well as many psychologists and educators, believe we n… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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4. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

By: Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi

4.34

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"

-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

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5. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

By: None , Matthew Walker

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501144318. Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker pr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span "

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

"...our lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia..."

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

"When sleep is abundant, minds flourish. When it is deficient, they don't."

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

"Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death."

-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

6. Memories, Dreams, Reflections

By: C.G. Jung , Richard Winston , Clara Winston , Aniela Jaffé

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his li… read more

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7. Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

By: Sue Johnson

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Heralded by the New York Timesand Timeas the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emot… read more

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8. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more

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9. The Bricks that Built the Houses

By: Kae Tempest

3.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London in a fourth-hand Ford with a suitcase full of stolen mone… read more

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10. The Compassionate Mind

By: None

4.47

Format: None pages,

Compassion and particularly compassion towards oneself can have a significant impact on our wellbei… read more

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11. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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12. Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

By: Ali Wong

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Ali Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they wer… read more

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"That day, my co-workers found out my secret: I'm a fucking idiot."

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

"I don't care how funny or beloved someone is. Take his ass down if he fucks with you."

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

"My dad would sometimes say things to my mom like, “Devil, get away, for I am God’s property!"

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

"When in doubt, go out. Not just for material, but to experience new people, new social situations, and unfamiliar surroundings."

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

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13. Humankind: A Hopeful History

By: Rutger Bregman

4.32

Format: 462 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and coope… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"We are trained to see selfishness everywhere."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"Toddlers don't need tests or grades to learn to walk or talk."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

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14. The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

By: Mary Ann Sieghart

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s author… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

By: Julie Smith

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

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16. 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

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  • psychology
  • 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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17. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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18. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

By: Cal Newport

4.06

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Cover of The Visit (Black Stars, #1) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

19. The Visit (Black Stars, #1)

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3.95

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men—old friends—confront the past and future in a … read more

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20. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon  Price

21. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

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22. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

By: Jason Hickel

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more

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"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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23. The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self

By: Chris Irons

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

There is good and increasing evidence that cultivating compassion for one's self and others can hav… read more

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  • psychology
  • self help

11 Best self help books like The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self by Chris Irons

Transform Your Habits

The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

Steven C. Hayes , Russ Harris

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Myth of Self-Esteem: How Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Can Change Your Life Forever

Albert Ellis

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

None , Matthew Walker

4.38

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Transform Your Habits

The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger

Leonard Scheff , Susan Edmiston

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi

4.34

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

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

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