nonfiction that feels like going to therapy (without the copay)
created by tfletch
last updated March, 2026
Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts
Harriet Lerner
The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response
Ellen Vora
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
Henry Cloud
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
Mark Wolynn
It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
Ramani Durvasula
Whole Again: Healing Your Heart and Rediscovering Your True Self After Toxic Relationships and Emotional Abuse
Jackson MacKenzie
AuDHD Women: Navigating Life After Late Discovery: A Compassionate Guide to Living with Autism and ADHD
Sarah Jones
The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Anna Lembke
The Needs of the Dying: A Guide for Bringing Hope, Comfort, and Love to Life's Final Chapter
David Kessler
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
Tara Schuster
Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
Marc Brackett
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker
The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How to Fix It
W. Chris Winter
Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
Karyl McBride
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond
Patricia Evans
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
Jonice Webb
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
Amir Levine
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Emily Nagoski
How to Keep House While Drowning
K.C. Davis
Who Deserves Your Love: How to Create Boundaries to Start, Strengthen, or End Any Relationship
Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers: Quiet the Critical Voice in Your Head, Heal Self-Doubt, and Live the Life You Deserve
Stephanie M. Kriesberg
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Nedra Glover Tawwab
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
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