In life, there are things that can lead you to your highest of highs and lowest of lows. Most of this stuff, good, bad, and ugly, are the result of your actions and decisions. Since an individual goes through different stages of growth and development, there will be moments that the mind is fixed on the things that you want without considering their impact on others and even on yourself. Thus, you cannot see the outcomes of your decisions, especially when you fall on circumstances that only survival is the last resort.
Everything may look like a roller-coaster journey, where you can smile in happiness and scream in frustration. But, in the end, you have survived that thrilling ride and reflected at each peak. If you want to know more about yourself, life, and the world, as well as how survival and reflection are important in your journey — then here are some of the best self-help books that you might want to check out.
Let Me Tell You How I Got Saved by Charles Lewis Anthony
Let Me Tell You How I Got Saved by Charles Lewis Anthony is a journey of street life survival and second chances. It was published in 2018 by CLF PUBLISHING and centers on the story of the author. His personal account in the character of Ray Watkins will inspire every reader to strive harder and turn their lives around.
Being raised in an area where gangs and violence are present, Anthony has made choices, good and bad. An excerpt from the book by Charles Lewis Anthony goes, “Vooshia picked me up while I was smelling like a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I didn’t care at all! Jesus said to come as you are, so I did just that, with all of my problems.” But regardless of all the bad and ugly circumstances, he still led into an encounter with God and a better life.
Growing Beyond Survival: A Self-help Toolkit for Managing Traumatic Stress by Elizabeth G. Vermilyea
Elizabeth G. Vermilyea penned an interactive book that aims to help readers in dealing with traumatic stress titled Growing Beyond Survival: A Self-help Toolkit for Managing Traumatic Stress. Hence, it is a workbook where you can learn different abilities that push you to be in control even in the most stressful impact of trauma.
This self-help book serves as a toolkit, which can help trauma survivors in identifying, contextualizing, and comprehending detachment and posttraumatic symptoms from their roots to why they arise. Readers can also build a structure to develop and enhance their abilities in managing exasperating thoughts, emotions, and impulses connected to traumatic events.
Wherever You Go, There You Are: A Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The 10th edition of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Wherever You Go, There You Are: A Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life was published in 2005 by Hachette Books. It is a guidebook that can greatly lower your stress levels and look for moments for self-reflection. The author plots a simple pathway for readers to follow in order to grow mindfulness in their lives. Thus, it is the perfect book for those who want to try to meditate and those who have been meditating for quite a long time now,
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You is a national bestselling book written by Elaine N. Aron. It is intended for those readers, specifically the highly sensitive ones, who want to find the best ways to achieve self-understanding and to live a better life with the aid of a clinical psychologist. The author, who possesses the same trait as her target readers, presents you with the methods of determining these characteristics and how to make the most out of them.
7 Mindsets to Master Self-Awareness by Elizabeth Diamond
In July 2010, Elizabeth Diamond’s brilliant book titled 7 Mindsets to Master Self-Awareness was published. This book aims to give rise to certain optimistic mindsets that can mold a strong underpinning for long-term conditions of inner happiness, love, calmness, and more. It also shows the readers the best ways to take so they can achieve the inner transformation that shows the emergence of positive, feel-good events that they’ve been longing for so long.
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