Books like Braving the Wilderness
12 books with a reading profile close to Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Elaine N.
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Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
by Brené Brown
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Brené Brown focuses on the physics of vulnerability, specifically how to recover from failure, heartbreak, and professional setbacks.
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Lindsay C.
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Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
by Brené Brown
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Brené Brown categorizes eighty-seven distinct emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human.
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The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Ian Morgan Cron presents the Enneagram as a personality typing system rooted in ancient wisdom and modern psychology.
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It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
by Mark Wolynn
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Mark Wolynn argues that chronic anxiety, depression, and phobias often originate in the unresolved tragedies of our parents and grandparents rather than our own immediate experiences.
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Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
by Kristin Neff
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Kristin Neff presents a psychological framework that replaces the pursuit of high self-esteem with consistent self-compassion.
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Don't Believe Everything You Think
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Joseph Nguyen argues that human suffering stems from the psychological process of thinking rather than the thoughts themselves.
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How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
In this manual for holistic psychology, Nicole LePera argues that individuals can manage their own mental wellness by addressing the link between the nervous system and childhood biological programming.
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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
by David Brooks
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
David Brooks argues that modern society suffers from a crisis of invisibility where people feel overlooked and misunderstood.
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Laziness Does Not Exist
by Devon Price
Also clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Social psychologist Devon Price identifies a cultural phenomenon called the laziness lie, a belief system rooted in Puritan work ethics that ties human worth to productivity.
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The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Also inward-looking · self help, personal growth
Using a Socratic dialogue between a cynical young man and an elderly philosopher, this book presents the psychological theories of Alfred Adler.
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