Books on the mind: anxiety, trauma, grief, relationships, motivation, ADHD, addiction and how people change. Many authors are psychologists, counselors and therapists who wrote down what they explain to clients again and again.
Others are written by people who lived through the struggle they describe. Both kinds are here, and the descriptions make clear which you are getting.
This shelf holds 184 books. Publication years run from 2015 to 2026. 22 of them have an audiobook edition. The most-rated on Amazon are Chasing Excellence, The Alter Ego Effect, You're Not Broken. The list below is sorted by how many ratings each book has on Amazon, so the most-read titles come first.
Ben Bergeron · 2017 · Audiobook
CrossFit trainer Ben Bergeron has helped build the world’s fittest athletes, but he’s not like other coaches. He believes that greatness is not for the elite few; that winning is a result, not a goal; and that character, not talent, is what makes a true…
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Todd Herman
An award-winning performance expert reveals the secret behind many top athletes and executives: creating a heroic alter ego to activate when the chips are down. There's only one person in the way of you untapping your capabilities: You. There's also one…
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5 Steps to Become Superconscious and Activate Your Magic
Christopher Duncan · 2021 · Audiobook
You are not broken. If you want to create a life you love, transform your reality, and manifest miracles with ease, this book is for you. You don’t have to “fix” anything about yourself to do it. You don’t have to think a certain way, heal your past, clear…
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Brian Scott
Our world is undergoing a reality revolution. More and more people are discovering the power of their minds to shape the world around them faster than ever before. The question is: how do you create the reality of your design? Brian Scott wants to help you…
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Shani Silver · 2021 · Audiobook
Shani Silver is not an advocate for singlehood. She’s an advocate for single women feeling good while single, and there’s a difference.A Single Revolution is one book for single women that won’t approach you like you’re unfinished. It’s for those who are…
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The Roadmap to Healing from Your Past and Living with Ease and Vitality
Ilene Smith · 2020
Have you noticed that no matter how much time you spend in talk therapy, you still feel anxious and triggered? That is because talk therapy can keep you stuck in a pattern of reliving your stories, rather than moving beyond them. But, most of all, it’s…
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Richard Grannon · 2022
Are you truly taking care of yourself? Or are you too busy taking care of everyone else? So many of us find it easier to love other people than to love ourselves. We struggle to put our own needs first and have a hard time asking for what we want, let alone…
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Kain Ramsay
The self-improvement industry, sadly, can often be one of the most deceptive. Bombarded by an endless stream of so-called influencers peddling quick-fix success tips, productivity hacks, and secrets to self-confidence, it’s no wonder so many people feel…
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Ken Falke · 2018
Your struggle may come in different forms, and be given one of many different names, such as anxiety, depression, addiction, and/or PTSD. No matter how much you or a loved one is struggling, or what it is called, one thing is almost certainly clear: you…
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A Memoir on Suicide, Addiction and Healing
Robert Imbeault · 2020
An unbelievably real and authentic story of pain, growth, and new life. What if you could find happiness after addiction? Imagine the struggle was behind you and you felt grateful for every ounce of joy in your life. What if you KNEW how to be courageous and…
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Aaron Stupple · 2025
Could it really be okay to let kids eat whatever they want? Sleep whenever they want? Watch whatever they want? If kids are completely free to make their own choices, they’ll develop damaging habits that will haunt them into adulthood. Surely parents have a…
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Will Leach · 2018 · Audiobook
Your nonconscious mind will filter out more than 99 percent of marketing you "see" today. Traditional marketing simply doesn't work in today's complex world. To reach today's customers and influence their purchases, marketers and market researchers need to…
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Douglas Brackmann
Some people are born with a drive often seen in entrepreneurs, pro-athletes, inventors, adventurers, and Navy SEALs. It's in their DNA - research has shown that certain genes can manifest resilient and highly focused people who can also be impulsive and…
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Daily Practices for Resilience, Perspective & Progress
Elizabeth Benton Thompson · 2021 · Audiobook
What happens when a master of personal transformation suffers unspeakable loss? After thirty years of battling obesity and struggling with her finances, Elizabeth Benton transformed herself. She lost 150 pounds, eliminated $130,000 of debt, and committed…
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Stefany Banda
You got into your dream school, earned the degree, and landed the job you always wanted. You have a beautiful apartment, found the right guy, and hit your goal weight. You’ve checked all the boxes that should guarantee you are living your dream life. But…
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Regan Walsh · 2021
Women are doing it all: running companies, nurturing marriages, raising kids, volunteering on boards, and still making Pinterest-perfect cupcakes for the class party, thank you very much. But we’re exhausted. We’re running on hamster wheels and popping…
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Brian Keating · Audiobook
How can you unlock creativity and imagination to inspire, teach, and lead? What mental models do the world’s most accomplished scientists use to supercharge their creativity and strengthen their most precious collaborations? In this mesmerizing collection of…
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Tom Lillig · 2020
What’s Within You Is Stronger Than What’s In Your WayNo one believes this more than David Shurna and Tom Lillig, co-founders of No Barriers USA. In 2003, they launched this award-winning nonprofit with the mission to help people reach their fullest potential…
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Lori Jean Glass · 2019
Do you find yourself in the same, unfulfilling, destructive relationships time and again? Or do you know your relationship has potential, but you can't seem to unlock it? If, like so many others, you find yourself stuck on a "crazy train" of secretive…
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Joshua Mantz
This is a journey of finding beauty within darkness. Former Army Major Josh Mantz reaches into the deepest corners of the human soul to expose the most difficult emotions associated with traumatic experiences. Mantz was shot and killed by a sniper on the…
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Pete Temple
Athletes work hard in practice, putting in the time and the grind, but when it comes to game time, sometimes they miss the mark. They know they’re capable of more, and their coaches and trainers know it, too, but when the lights are on them, and the pressure…
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Andre Norman · 2020
Andre Norman's early life put him on a path to prison. Raised in poverty and surrounded by dysfunction, Andre gravitated to his neighborhood gang. His choices there led to time in juvenile detention, and eventually a maximum-security prison, with sentences…
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Because You Are The Problem... and the Solution
Tracy Litt · 2019
Have you ever struggled with the feeling that you’re not good enough? Maybe this feeling comes from your background, traumas you’ve experienced, what you have or don’t have, who you feel you should or shouldn’t be. Whatever the reason, this feeling is…
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8 Homegrown Lessons for Business and Life
Marney Andes · 2021
Marney Andes grew up on a farm outside of Wallace, a small town in western Nebraska. Today, she is a successful learning and development executive, coach, corporate consultant, and entrepreneur. She’s also a former educator and collegiate basketball player. …
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Whitney Tilson · 2021 · Audiobook
To be successful and enjoy a happy life, it’s important to do all the right things: become well educated and wise, develop a strong work ethic, always act with integrity, and treat others well. But what’s equally important, yet widely overlooked, is avoiding…
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Stories of Loss, Grief, and Moving Forward
John Sardella · 2020
After twenty-seven years of marriage, John Sardella lost the love of his life when his wife, Margaret, passed away following a seven-year battle with cancer. John looked for a book that would give him space for his pain and inspire him to move forward, but…
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A Reflection on Challenges, Failures, and Lessons Learned
Lee Beck · 2020
One. Lee D. Beck counted the first wave and waited for the second, knowing that he’d have a chance of surviving if he could hold his breath, maintain his composure, and count to six, the number of waves in a typical set. The leash of his surfboard, wedged in…
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Paul Zak · 2022
No one raves about boring movies, bland customer service experiences, or sleep-inducing classes. The world is rapidly transforming into an experience economy as people increasingly crave extraordinary experiences. Experience designers, marketers…
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Jason Roncoroni
After years of dedicated service, leaving might be the hardest mission for any military leader. If you’re standing at the threshold of transition, fear and uncertainty are unspoken obstacles that can erode your confidence and excitement for what comes next.…
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James Neville-Taylor · 2023
James Neville-Taylor has felt the suffocating darkness that can drive a person to take their own life. After a failed suicide attempt in 2017, he realized his life would have amounted to nothing if it had ended then. So he resolved to change it. From Beat…
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Julie Whitehead · 2023
Sex trafficking. For many Americans, it sounds like fiction. After all, who could believe that a preschool teacher was being transported against her will every weekend? That she was being sold for sex in multiple US states, out of the country, and even in her…
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Simone Knego · 2020
Do you wake up every day feeling like you’re going through the motions, that the hundreds of choices you make have almost no impact on the people around you? Many motivational books will tell you that in order to better the world, you must first better…
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Eliminate the Beliefs That Sabotage Your Business and Your Life
Shelly Lefkoe · 2023
As an entrepreneur, you’re a master at solving problems and selling solutions. But limiting beliefs can still derail your progress. You struggle to delegate. Your company thrives, but your health and your nonbusiness relationships suffer. In Hitting the…
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Joe Mechlinski
70% of the American workforce is disengaged. With every tick of the clock, millions of people inch closer to their breaking points―a growing epidemic of apathy and anxiety in the workplace that is affecting life outside of the office. But meaningful…
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Lorenzo Gomez
The great lie of our society is that mental health and mental illness are the same. Lorenzo Gomez wants to dispel that notion for good. In his new book, Tafolla Toro, he reaches back in time to share stories of his turbulent, traumatic, and often violent…
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Seven Vital Virtues to Turn Struggle Into Strength
Ben Woodward · 2020
Adversity comes to all of us in ways we may not expect or choose. Often, it is unwanted and untimely. And still it boldly demands something of us. A response. Perhaps it’s the pain of sickness, death, or simply getting older. Maybe it’s the struggle of…
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Tammy Pack · 2023
Is this it for you? Is this the life you always wanted? If it isn’t, maybe you feel like it’s too late to do something different…but that isn’t true at all. Stop Waiting to Die proves that it’s not too late to take charge of your life and live your dreams.…
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How to Feel Empowered after Casual Sex
Lia Paulina Holmgren · 2021
Most women want sex. Not just love. Sex. But the same desire that our culture celebrates in men can leave women feeling anxious, insecure, emotionally attached, or even ashamed. Enough. In Hookup Without Heartbreak, world-renowned intimacy and relationship…
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Greg Hiebert · 2018
It’s easy to take life for granted. In the pursuit of fame, fortune, or success, we forget to take care of ourselves, missing out on things that bring us joy, happiness, and well-being. It’s time to transform burnout into happiness and invest in ourselves, so…
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Morgan Anderson · 2023
Why are other people lucky in love, while you’re stuck with short-term strikeouts? Do your relationships fall into painfully predictable patterns, always ending in heartache? Have you secretly suspected that you’re doomed to lead a lonely life? There is…
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Simple Tools to Help You Live Peacefully
Holly Schneider · 2021
Carry Your Own Backpack is a self-help guide to emotional well-being from award-winning mental health coach and psychotherapist Holly A. Schneider. Based on two simple principles, what you pay attention to grows, and what you carry builds strength, this…
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Eliot Marshall · 2019
Eliot Marshall has always been a fighter, from overcoming bullies and bigots who targeted his half-black, half-Jewish heritage to using his martial-arts prowess to become part of the UFC. But beneath his badass exterior, Eliot struggled with severe anxiety…
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How to Build a Healthy and Happy Home When You Come From a Broken One
Anthony Blankenship · 2020
A powerful, transformative work. A must read for anyone aiming to free themselves, or their family, from a negative cycle of painful dysfunction. Awards for this book include gold awards from Independent Press Awards, Reader Views Literary Awards, & the…
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Timothy Yen
Have you ever faced a challenge or decision that felt so overwhelming you had no idea where to start? Choose Better provides a systematic approach to solving any problem, no matter how difficult. Designed by Dr. Timothy Yen, this series of questions will lead…
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Julie Lopez
Have you ever found yourself puzzled by an inability to act on something important that seems logically within your reach? Do you notice that invisible barriers seem to keep you from making desired changes? Some of these roadblocks may seem minor, others…
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Ashish Kothari · 2022
We live in a world of abundance and prosperity. Technology has brought us closer and keeps us more connected than ever before. Medical advances protect and heal us. And yet, so many of us trudge through life feeling heavy, empty, stressed, and alone. The…
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How to Control Which One Speaks for You
Kevin McCarney · 2021
In a world where anything you text, post, or blurt out can go viral instantly, having control over your words is critical to your success. Whenever we’re frustrated, angry, or under stress, those negative influences try to control what we’ll say next. When…
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Sheridan Taylor · 2022
This is a challenging book. In Not Okay? Okay. combat veteran and suicide survivor Sheridan Taylor chronicles the anguish and rage he experienced in the darkest depths of despair, and he shares the process and triumph of fighting his way out. After a…
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Five Relationships of Success
Daphne Scott · 2019
Whether you’re a new leader or you’ve been in your role for a while, let me ask you a question: Do you feel equipped to lead? For many leaders, the answer is “no.” Instead of empowered, they feel ineffective and stressed out trying to juggle all of their…
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Greg Wells
Smartphones debuted only ten years ago, but their impact has been immense. With up-to-the-minute updates on social media, email, and texts, people are more distracted than ever, which is affecting our psychological and physical well-being. To cut through the…
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Omar Ritter · 2025
In vulnerability lies strength. Do you feel trapped by your past? Are you struggling with mental health issues or overwhelmed with life’s pressures? You’re not alone. In West Point to Wall Street, veteran Omar Ritter reveals the lessons he’s learned over…
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Derrick Pledger · 2023
This is your recipe for success. You are on a journey toward the dreams and goals you’ve set for yourself. But a steady stream of useless information bombards your brain every day. To satisfy your appetite for success, you must fill your mind with the right…
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Emily Gutierrez · 2019
When your child has been diagnosed with autism (ASD), finding an effective treatment can be a complicated journey filled with wrong turns and dead ends. In this first-of-its-kind guidebook, Emily Gutierrez and Jana Roso suggest an alternate route that can…
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Lilli Correll · 2021 · Audiobook
Suffering is a part of life, and trauma is all too common. Although no one talks about it, leaving many feeling alone, ashamed, and disqualified from living a good life, some cultures believe suffering is actually a right of passage, a way to rise. In…
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The Surprising Science of How Brain Inflammation Impacts Mental Health, and What You Can Do About It
Xenia Kachur · 2024
It’s time to take control of the inflammation in your brain. Why? Depression, anxiety, brain fog, migraines, poor memory, sleep issues, concussions, and long COVID all have this one thing in common. Mindfire demystifies how inflammation plays a role in so…
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Alreen Haeggquist · 2023
One out of every two women in the United States experience sexual assault. Underreporting, victim blaming, and societal shaming mean the actual rate is even higher. But you are not a statistic. You are a survivor. This book is for you. Sex abuse survivor…
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Jefferson K. Rogers · 2023 · Audiobook
Remember your dreams? The exotic places you planned to visit? The adventures that called? If you’re living each day to its fullest, mindful of every blessing, then this book is not for you. However, if you’re sleepwalking through life, stuck in a rut, and…
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The Practical Path to Living Your Purpose and Potential
Tracy Thomas · 2019
In today's world, even the act of living can become overwhelming. Surrounded by constant pressures and obligations, and coping with our own emotional clutter, we become trapped as we try to maintain the semblance of a happy life, all the while feeling as if…
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Phil Illy · 2023
THE MOST COMMON KIND OF TRANSThere are two known types of transgenderism. One is associated with homosexuality and the other with autoheterosexuality: a sexual attraction to being the other sex. Some trans people see these transgender categories as…
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Simone Heng · 2022
The world was in a loneliness crisis long before Covid-19.As human beings, our brains are wired for connection. The feelings of disconnectedness people are facing today, isolation within our families, digital addiction, emotional trauma, hold worrying…
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