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How Social Support Contributes to Psychological Health

By Kendra Cherry — 2020

It is social support that builds people up during times of stress and often gives them the strength to carry on and even thrive.

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Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World

Written from Neil Shister’s perspective as a journalist, student of American culture, and six-time participant in Burning Man, Radical Ritual presents the event as vitally, historically important.

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Neil Shister
2019
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Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

Murthy’s prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness.

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Vivek H. Murthy
2020
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I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships

In this 3-hour, conversational read, you’ll discover the whats, whys, and hows of one of the most valuable (yet surprisingly little-known) communication skills—validation.

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Michael S. Sorensen
2017
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

"Wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review), and rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this book is a balm for everything life throws our way.

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Cheryl Strayed
2025
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

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Lori Gottlieb
2019
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All About Love: New Visions

“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love.

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Bell Hooks
2018
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It’s OK that You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that Doesn’t Understand

In It’s OK that You’re Not OK, Megan Devine offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we try to help others who have endured tragedy.

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Megan Devine
2017
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Common Sense Spirituality: The Essential Wisdom of David Steindl-Rast

This collection of David Steindl-Rast's essays directs us back to the true authority—our inner core of knowing. An invitation to reconnect with the wisdom that grounds us, draws no limits, motivates moral actions, and makes us exhilaratingly alive.

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David Steindl-Rast, Joan Chittister (foreword)
2008
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book

These intimate stories by cancer patients and their loved ones, medical professionals, and friends, are a must-read for anyone affected by cancer. Writers share all their experiences—from the initial diagnosis, to breaking the news to loved ones, to discussing the effect on home, school, and work.

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Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, David Tabatsky
2009
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Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist—One Woman's Spiritual Journey

Jan Willis is not Baptist or Buddhist. She is simply both. Dreaming Me is the story of her life, as a child growing up in the Jim Crow South, dealing with racism in an Ivy League college, and becoming involved with the Black Panther Party.

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Jan Willis
2008
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