Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life
10 best books like Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life (Priscilla Warner): A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness, Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment, Devotion: A Memoir, Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression, Downward Dog, Upward Fog, Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival, Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi: My Humble Quest to Heal My Colitis, Calm My ADD, and Find the Key to Happiness, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life
A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
| Author | Tom Davis |
| ISBN | 1616491213 |
The story of a loving family coming to grips with its own fragilities, A Legacy of Madness relays the author's journey to uncover, and ultimately understand, the history of mental illness that led generations of his suburban American family to their demise. Dede Davis had worried, fussed, and obsessed...
| Author | Suzanne Morrison |
| ISBN | 0307717445 |
What happens when a coffee-drinking, cigarette-smoking, steak-eating twenty-five-year-old atheist decides it is time to get in touch with her spiritual side? Not what you’d expect…
When Suzanne Morrison decides to travel to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat, she wants nothing...
| Author | Dani Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0061628344 |
“Devotion’s biggest triumph is its voice: funny and unpretentious, concrete and earthy—appealing to skeptics and believers alike. This is a gripping, beautiful story.” —Jennifer Egan, author of The Keep
“I was immensely moved by this elegant book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert,...
| Author | Bo Forbes |
| ISBN | 1590307607 |
Emotional balance is within your reach—when you cultivate the intelligence of both your body and mind. Bo Forbes, a psychologist and yoga teacher, presents an integrative approach to healing anxiety, depression, and chronic stress. In this book, she offers some of her most important teachings...
| Author | Meryl Davids Landau |
| ISBN | 1936586355 |
Lorna Crawford has a great boyfriend, longtime friends, and a well-paying job as special- events coordinator at a premium ice-cream manufacturer. But, out of sorts and filled with self-doubt, the 33 year old soon realizes that what she really wants is to stay on the spiritual path she keeps diving off...
| Author | Alison Wright |
| ISBN | 1594630461 |
A searing and uplifting account of one woman’s spiritual journey from surviving a terrible accident to a triumphant ascent of Kilimanjaro
On the second day of this century, world- renowned photojournalist Alison Wright was traveling on a windy mountain road in Laos when the bus she was...
As a college freshman business major suffering from a variety of anxiety-related maladies, Brian Leaf stumbled into an elective: yoga. It was 1989. All his classmates were female. And men did not yet generally “cry, hug, or do yoga.” But yoga soothed and calmed Leaf as nothing else had. As his hilarious...
| Author | Karen Maezen Miller |
| ISBN | 1577319044 |
It’s easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are “out there,” somewhere outside of our daily routine. But in this playful yet profound reflection on awareness, the compelling voice of a contemporary woman reveals the happiness at the bottom of the laundry basket, the love in the kitchen...
| Author | Ana T. Forrest |
| ISBN | 0061864242 |
In Fierce Medicine, Ana Forrest, charismatic teacher and founder of Forrest Yoga, combines physical practice, eastern wisdom, and profound Native American ceremony to help heal everything from addictive behaviors and eating disorders to chronic pain and injury.
Fierce Medicine is also...
| Author | Irwin Kula |
| ISBN | 1401301924 |
"Irwin Kula shows us how to to live our humanness -- the pleasures and the challenges, the messiness and the triumphs -- with a profound acceptance of our desires and foibles and a joy that can only come from understanding." --Deepak Chopra "Yearning. After twenty-three years as a rabbi, I can think of...
| Author | Forrest Church |
| ISBN | 0807072931 |
On a February day in 2008, Forrest Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation, informing them that he had terminal cancer; his life would now be measured in months, not years. In that remarkable letter, he wrote: "In more than one respect, I feel very lucky." He went on to promise that he would...
| Author | Judith Hanson Lasater |
| ISBN | 1930485158 |
Judith Hanson Lasater has been teaching an annual yoga retreat at Feathered Pipe Ranch, in Helena, Montana, for 28 years. When she learned that one of her students was collecting Lasater’s thoughts — which she called “Judith’s aphorisms” — Lasater decided to collect them in this book....
| Author | Cyndi Lee |
| ISBN | 0525953841 |
In the candid, contemplative memoir May I Be Happy, revered yoga teacher Cyndi Lee gives readers an unforgettable gift: the ability to focus on our experiences as we have them, on the way to a lighter life.
For all her wisdom as a teacher, Cyndi Lee—founder of New York’s world renowned OM...
| Author | Rachel Neumann |
| ISBN | 1937006239 |
The book is a memoir of how a skeptical, fast-talking New Yorker became Thich Nhat Hanh's editor, turned forty, realized she was aging, and slowly and reluctantly started to absorb mindfulness practice and grow up. Scenes with Thich Nhat Hanh and the author’s two vividly exuberant older parents,...
| Author | Karuna Cayton |
| ISBN | 1577319427 |
Buddhism asserts that we each have the potential to free ourselves from the prison of our problems. As practiced for more than twenty-six hundred years, the process involves working with, rather than against, our depression, anxiety, and compulsions. We do this by recognizing the habitual ways our...
The following twenty-one stories are from actual house calls I have made in three different states during my thirty years of practice as a rural family physician. Some are humorous, some sad, some sublime. I have changed the names and in a few cases altered circumstances slightly to protect privacy...
| Author | Anneli Rufus |
| ISBN | 0399164219 |
“Anneli Rufus has an incredible insight into the human condition. Through observation and anecdote, she shows us that no matter what was said or done to us, self-loathing does not have to be our fate. Hers is a strong, sympathetic and encouraging voice.”—Henry Rollins
"This book should...
The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of "Enough"
| Author | Julia Cameron |
| ISBN | 1585428973 |
A dynamic new creative-renewal program from the woman who has inspired millions to discover and recover their creative souls.
In The Prosperous Heart, Julia Cameron presents a ten-week program for using your creative heart and soul to lead you to prosperity in all the areas of your life. With...
One Good Deed: 365 Days of Trying to Be Just a Little Bit Better
| Author | Erin McHugh |
| ISBN | 1419704176 |
Erin McHugh had spent the better part of her adult life doing community work, but in more recent years, the minutiae of life and working as a bookseller kept her busy and away from those higher impulses. Then one day she learned a distant relative was actually going to be canonized. Was this a sign? What...
The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes
| Author | Randi Davenport |
| ISBN | 1565126114 |
Randi Davenport’s story is a testament to human fortitude, to hope, and to a mother’s uncompromising love for her children. She had always worked hard to provide her family with a sense of stability and strength, despite the challenges of having a son with autism and a husband whose erratic behavior...
My Depression: A Picture Book
| Author | Elizabeth Swados |
| ISBN | 1401307892 |
A moving memoir in words and pictures of one woman's struggle with the little black cloud of depression pening up the darkest corners of her world, author Elizabeth Swados takes us on an unforgettable journey that is by turns poignant and funny, and will be undoubtedly familiar to those who suffer from...
Learning from the Voices in My Head
Eleanor Longden was a college freshman when she started hearing voices in her head. Diagnosed with schizophrenia and checked into a psychiatric ward, Longden spent years trapped in a nightmare of hospitals and medications, pain and despair. Yet she survived. Her technique: to learn to listen to her...
| Author | Jon Reiner |
| ISBN | 1439192464 |
“I’m a glutton in a greyhound’s body, a walking contradiction, in the grip of the one thing I can’t have—food.”
Food is not just sustenance. It is memories, a lobster roll on the beach in Maine; heritage, hot pastrami club with a half-sour pickle; guilty pleasures, a chocolate rum-soaked...
