24 Best nonfiction books like Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them by Tina Gilbertson

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Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

By: Tina Gilbertson

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Constructive wallowing" seems like an oxymoron. Constructive is a good thing, but wallowing is bad…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them by Tina Gilbertson , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

By: Mark Wolynn

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generatio… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame by Janet Lansbury

2. No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame

By: Janet Lansbury

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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3. The Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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4. The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal by Jen Waite

5. A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal

By: Jen Waite

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

What do you do when you discover that the person you've built your life around never existed? When … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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6. Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

By: Tina Gilbertson

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Constructive wallowing" seems like an oxymoron. Constructive is a good thing, but wallowing is bad… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • self help
Cover of The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron

7. 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

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  • mental illness
  • 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

8. Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts

By: Harriet Lerner

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"If you want to know why Harriet Lerner is one of my great heroes, Why Won't You Apologize?is the a… read more

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9. Truth and Beauty

By: Ann Patchett

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writ… read more

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10. The Liars' Club

By: Mary Karr

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. I… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A pool game mixes ritual with geometry."

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

"Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild..."

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it."

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

"Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, “go in,"

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

11. Across The Wide And Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary Of Hattie Campbell

By: Kristiana Gregory

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Now that we're in the North Platte River Valley the air feels dry and thin. My lips are so chapped … read more

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Cover of Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World by Gretchen Rubin

12. Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

By: Gretchen Rubin

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Rubin's Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World book and Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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13. Inward

By: Yung Pueblo

4.22

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Inward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self love to un… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"i can only give to you what i have already given to myself i can only understand the world as much as i understand myself"

-Yung Pueblo, Inward

"to expect another to resolve all of our issues and give us the happiness we desire is to expect to see the sunrise without opening our own eyes. it is to ask a river to give us nourishment without di…"

-Yung Pueblo, Inward

Cover of No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel

14. No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

By: Daniel J. Siegel

4.26

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain t… read more

Similar categories in Daniel J. Siegel's No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind book and Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset) by Jon Acuff

15. Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)

By: Jon Acuff

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Overthinking isn't a personality trait. It's the sneakiest form of fear. It steals time, creativit… read more

Similar categories in Jon Acuff's Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset) book and Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Your brain is waiting for you each day. It's waiting to be told what to think. It's waiting to see what kind of soundtracks you'll choose. It's waiting to see if you really want to build a different …"

-Jon Acuff, Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)

"This time though, I didn't listen to that. There was a new soundtrack in town that told me, "Everything's always working out for me? I didn't know how that was going to become true, but I decided to …"

-Jon Acuff, Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)

".........Frederickson discovered a more reasonable goal. "Aim for a positivity ratio of at least 3 to 1. This means that for every heart-wrenching negative emotional experience you endure, you experi…"

-Jon Acuff, Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)

Cover of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice  Wong

16. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

By: Alice Wong

4.47

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century book and Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • nonfiction
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"

-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Cover of Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution by Rainn Wilson

17. Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

By: Rainn Wilson

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

**New York Times  Bestseller** Comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson, cofounder of th… read more

Similar categories in Rainn Wilson's Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution book and Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
Cover of The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals by Clea Shearer

18. The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals

By: Clea Shearer

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

There's decorating, and then there's organizing. From the Instagram-sensation home experts (with a … read more

Similar categories in Clea Shearer's The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals book and Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • how to
Cover of Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance by Kelly McDaniel

19. Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

By: Kelly McDaniel

4.15

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and p… read more

Similar categories in Kelly McDaniel's Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance book and Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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20. The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential

By: Wim Hof

3.83

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The only definitive book authored by Wim Hof on his powerful met… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance and Living Your Purpose by Chani Nicholas

21. You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance and Living Your Purpose

By: Chani Nicholas

4.22

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The beloved Los Angeles astrologer with more than one million fans shows a new generation how to us… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • self help
"Being witnessed is essential to our humanity, our growth, and our ability to move past the trauma that we have survived. If astrology does its job, it offers a mirror in which we see both our best se…"

-Chani Nicholas, You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance and Living Your Purpose

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22. A Christmas Memory

By: Richard Paul Evans

4.58

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

It’s 1967, and for young Richard it’s a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few mont… read more

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Cover of Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown

23. Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

By: Greg McKeown

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism takes on the holy grail of human performance:… read more

Similar categories in Greg McKeown's Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most book and Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
"What job have I hired this grudge to do?"

-Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

"There is no mastery without mistakes, and there is no learning later without the courage to be rubbish."

-Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

"Life doesn't have to be as hard and complicated as we make it. Each of us has -- as Robert Frost wrote -- "Promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep." No matter what challenges, obstacles or ha…"

-Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

Cover of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger

24. 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

Similar categories in Robert Waldinger's The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness book and Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris J. Anderson

25. Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading

By: Chris J. Anderson

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of huma… read more

Similar categories in Chris J. Anderson's Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading book and Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of The God of Endings by Jacqueline  Holland

26. The God of Endings

By: Jacqueline Holland

3.80

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Collette LeSange has been hiding a dark secret: She is immortal. In 1834, Collette’s grandfather gr… read more

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Cover of 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

27. 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 Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • 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

Cover of Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career by Kristi Coulter

28. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

By: Kristi Coulter

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more

Similar categories in Kristi Coulter's Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career book and Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Daydreams by Laura Hankin

29. The Daydreams

By: Laura Hankin

3.59

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s—and th… read more

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"There are certain feelings you don’t believe are real until you feel them yourself. Take anger so strong that you could kill someone. You cannot wrap your head around how a person could get to that p…"

-Laura Hankin, The Daydreams

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30. The Professor

By: Lauren Nossett

3.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Tana French, The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic ambition, lies… read more

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"Because truth, like anything buried in the bottom of a box, is rarely the balm people think it will be."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"It’s not true what they say—the truth will set you free. The truth only means you see the walls of your cage."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"There’s a whisper of something at the back of my neck, and I bristle, knowing that for weeks I’ve been leaving my armor at the door, slipping around the warm floors in nothing sturdier than gossamer,…"

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

Cover of Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind by Andy     Dunn

31. Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind

By: Andy Dunn

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder th… read more

Similar categories in Andy Dunn's Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind book and Tina Gilbertson's Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health

24 Top nonfiction books like Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them by Tina Gilbertson

Transform Your Habits

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn

3.55

Transform Your Habits

No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame

Janet Lansbury

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

Thich Nhat Hanh

4.04

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Transform Your Habits

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

Mark Wolynn

3.55

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

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Stephanie Foo

4.52

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