15 Best nonfiction books like Embracing Shame by Bret Lyon

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Embracing Shame

By: Bret Lyon

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Discover a proven pathway for transforming shame from a self-punishing emotion into a powerful ally…

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1. Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon - Survival of Bodily Death

By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , Raymond A. Moody Jr. , Melvin Morse

4.10

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Raymond Moody is the “father” of the modern NDE (Near Death Experience) movement, and his pioneerin… read more

Similar categories in Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon - Survival of Bodily Death book and Bret Lyon's Embracing Shame

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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2. 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,

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health

3. The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How to Fix It

By: W. Chris Winter

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With cutting-edge sleep science and time-tested techniques, The Sleep Solutionwill help anyone achi… read more

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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

Similar categories in Elaine N. Aron's The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You book and Bret Lyon's Embracing Shame

  • 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

5. The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment

By: Adyashanti

4.67

Format: 87 pages, Audio CD

For those serious about enlightenment, author and teacher Adyashanti has some advice: better know w… read more

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6. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

By: Kristin Neff

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

From leading psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff comes a step-by-step guide explaining how to be more sel… read more

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7. Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

By: Nathaniel Branden

3.80

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Nathaniel Branden's book is the culmination of a lifetime of clinical practice and study, already h… read more

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8. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

By: Mumia Abu-Jamal , Terry Bisson , Tara Betts , Tananarive Due , David F. Walker , Kalamu ya Salaam , Bao Phi , LeVar Burton , Alexis Pauline Gumbs , Walidah Imarisha , None , Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha , Autumn Brown , Adrienne Maree Brown , None , None , None , None , None , None , Dani McClain , None , None

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing vis… read more

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9. Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection

By: Julie Schwartz Gottman

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

LEARN THE 5 SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL COUPLES Conflict is the top reason couples seek help—but it's al… read more

Similar categories in Julie Schwartz Gottman's Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection book and Bret Lyon's Embracing Shame

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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10. Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood

By: Ruby Warrington

3.86

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

What is “woman” if not “mother”? Anything she wants to be. Foregoing motherhood has traditional… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Warrington's Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood book and Bret Lyon's Embracing Shame

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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11. Anchored

By: Deb Dana

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Discover your body’s neural pathways to calmness, safety, and connection. An intense conversation,… read more

Similar categories in Deb Dana's Anchored book and Bret Lyon's Embracing Shame

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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12. It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

By: Ramani Durvasula

4.58

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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

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13. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

By: Rebekah Taussig

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more

Similar categories in Rebekah Taussig's Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body book and Bret Lyon's Embracing Shame

  • nonfiction
"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"

-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

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14. It's Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

By: Hilary Jacobs Hendel

4.22

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiet… read more

Similar categories in Hilary Jacobs Hendel's It's Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self book and Bret Lyon's Embracing Shame

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"healing is not just a desired outcome of treatment, it is a potential that is there from the start. We are wired to heal, to right ourselves, to grow and transform. This is not just a metaphor. It is…"

-Hilary Jacobs Hendel, It's Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

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15. I Didn’t Sign Up for This: A Couples Therapist Shares Real-Life Stories of Breaking Patterns and Finding Joy in Relationships . . . Including Her Own

By: Tracy Dalgleish

4.31

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

“Partnerships are tricky, especially when you are parenting young kids. I Didn’t Sign Up for This o… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Dalgleish's I Didn’t Sign Up for This: A Couples Therapist Shares Real-Life Stories of Breaking Patterns and Finding Joy in Relationships . . . Including Her Own book and Bret Lyon's Embracing Shame

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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16. Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic

By: Paul Conti

3.74

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A Journey Toward Understanding, Active Treatment, and Societal Prevention of Trauma Imagine, if yo… read more

Similar categories in Paul Conti's Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic book and Bret Lyon's Embracing Shame

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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17. Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

By: Zach Zimmerman

3.62

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

In this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, New York-based comedian Zach Zimmerm… read more

Similar categories in Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth? book and Bret Lyon's Embracing Shame

  • nonfiction
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18. 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

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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19. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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20. Embracing Shame

By: Bret Lyon

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Discover a proven pathway for transforming shame from a self-punishing emotion into a powerful ally… read more

Similar categories in Bret Lyon's Embracing Shame book and Bret Lyon's Embracing Shame

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help

11 best-selling self help books like Embracing Shame by Bret Lyon

Transform Your Habits

Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon - Survival of Bodily Death

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , Raymond A. Moody Jr. , Melvin Morse

4.10

Transform Your Habits

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

Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection

Julie Schwartz Gottman

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood

Ruby Warrington

3.86

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Transform Your Habits

Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression, and Unleash Your Soul's Potential

Phil Stutz , Barry Michels

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

Peter Attia

4.37

Transform Your Habits

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

Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

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