Books like It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
12 books with a reading profile close to It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn. Inward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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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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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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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
by Brené Brown
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Brené Brown argues that vulnerability is not a symptom of weakness but the most accurate measure of courage.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
Susan Cain examines the cultural shift from a nineteenth-century Cult of Character to a modern Cult of Personality that favors the Extrovert Ideal.
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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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