Book Notes: The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk
A trauma psychiatrist on why the body remembers what the mind has buried — and what to do about it.
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Slow walks through one book at a time.
Book Notes: Stillness Is the Key, by Ryan Holiday
A modern Stoic on the discipline of slowing down — and where his argument lives, and where it strains.
Book Notes: Wherever You Go, There You Are, by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The book that translated Buddhist practice into the plain language most of us could finally hear.
Book Notes: A Grief Observed, by C.S. Lewis
A small book written in the immediate aftermath of unbearable loss. The most honest pages I know on the subject.
Book Notes: The Art of Communicating, by Thich Nhat Hanh
A short, practical book about saying less and listening more, by the Vietnamese teacher who taught me to wash dishes.
Book Notes: When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chödrön
A book for the kind of week you cannot fix. There is more medicine in it than you will be ready to receive.
Book Notes: The Miracle of Mindfulness, by Thich Nhat Hanh
The little book that has stayed on my desk for ten years and still has more to give.