8 Introspective Books That Will Lift You Up
Is acute stress response your coping mechanism of choice? It was for author
Barbara Bradley Hagerty, until she sought the advice of a few highly enlightened bedside companions.
By Barbara Bradley Hagerty
By Erling Kagge
160 pages; Pantheon
After spending 50 days alone in Antarctica, Kagge is clearly qualified to write about the soul-reviving benefits of quiet. In a series of lyrical vignettes, the Norwegian explorer muses on our brain's tendency to descend into chaos and the urgent need to contemplate "the silence that rests like a young bird in your palms."
From the
January 2018 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
