8 must-read health books like Befriending Your Nervous System: Looking Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana

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Befriending Your Nervous System: Looking Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory

By: Deb Dana

4.00

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Harness the power of your nervous system to support healthy relationships and personal well-being.W…

If you liked the health plot in Befriending Your Nervous System: Looking Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier

1. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

By: Michael Bungay Stanier

4.02

Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition

In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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2. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

By: Ron Chernow

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dy… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

3. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

By: Audre Lorde

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up by James Hollis

4. Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

By: James Hollis

4.12

Format: 323 pages,

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

5. Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship

By: Harville Hendrix , Stan Tatkin

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

""What the heck is my partner thinking?"" is a common refrain in romantic relationships, and with g… read more

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6. It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness

By: Suzanne O'Sullivan

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'Even if medical tests cannot explain your pain or tiredness or disability, it does not lessen your… read more

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7. 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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Cover of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach

8. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

By: Tara Brach

4.16

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

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9. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May

3.86

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"The problem with “everything"

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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10. Saga, Volume 11

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Format: 153 pages, ebook

While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new all… read more

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11. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cover of No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz

12. 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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  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • 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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13. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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14. Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

By: Maggie Smith

3.89

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Marie Claire’s The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now The Washington Post’s What to Read in 2020 B… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change book and Deb Dana's Befriending Your Nervous System: Looking Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Do not be ashamed of the intensity of your emotion. That's your humanity. Grief can be feral, wild, frightening. Give it a safe place to live."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"Everything is temporary. You can't keep a white-knuckled hold on what you love or on what has hurt you. Loosen your grip on your grief today, if only a bit."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"Stop calling your heart broken; your heart works just fine. If you are feeling--love, anger, gratitude, grief--it is because your heart is doing its work. Let it."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

"It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are. Be wary of those who don't want you to change or grow. Grow anyway--there is no alternative."

-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

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15. The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

By: Daniel Z. Lieberman

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them? Why is addiction "perfect… read more

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  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"It’s better to be smart than strong."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"Success inspired confidence; confidence produced success."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"Having a confident expectation of success can make obstacles melt before your eyes."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"As the German philosopher Arthur Schoppenhauer wrote, "Dreams are brief madness and madness a long dreams."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

Cover of Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir by Marsha M. Linehan

16. Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

By: Marsha M. Linehan

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Somehow I lost all ability to regulate not only my emotions but my behavior as well.... It was an alarmingly rapid and complete descent into hell."

-Marsha M. Linehan, Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

Cover of The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy) by Yung Pueblo

17. The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy)

By: Yung Pueblo

4.42

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this thir… read more

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  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Stephen W. Porges

18. The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

By: Stephen W. Porges

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Bridging the gap between research, science, and the therapy room. When The Polyvagal Theory was pub… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Becoming Safely Embodied: A Guide to Organize Your Mind, Body and Heart to Feel Secure in the World by Deirdre Fay

19. Becoming Safely Embodied: A Guide to Organize Your Mind, Body and Heart to Feel Secure in the World

By: Deirdre Fay

4.01

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

Whether you are stuck in the distress of life, or appear like nothing’s wrong, you may have faced t… read more

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  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Intentional Neuroplasticity: Moving Our Nervous Systems and Educational System Toward Post-Traumatic Growth by Lori L Desautels

20. Intentional Neuroplasticity: Moving Our Nervous Systems and Educational System Toward Post-Traumatic Growth

By: Lori L Desautels

4.28

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

This book is an absolute must-read for educators. Educator fatigue and burnout are at an all-time h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Befriending Your Nervous System: Looking Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana

21. Befriending Your Nervous System: Looking Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory

By: Deb Dana

4.00

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Harness the power of your nervous system to support healthy relationships and personal well-being.W… read more

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  • mental health
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  • self help

17 must-read nonfiction books like Befriending Your Nervous System: Looking Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana

Transform Your Habits

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Stanier

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Ron Chernow

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

James Hollis

4.12

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18 Top audiobook books like The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Stephen W. Porges

Transform Your Habits

Bad Dreams and Other Stories

Tessa Hadley

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

Simon Marshall , Lesley Paterson

3.44

Transform Your Habits

Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

Alan W. Watts , Mark Watts

3.75

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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