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 Mark Nepo
264 pages; Sounds True
How do we unravel our existential fear? How do we fight the urge to withdraw into ourselves to avoid pain? How do we shed what is unnecessary? Drawing from his longtime journal, Nepo riffs on the sublime in the ordinary, always returning to the "sweet and sudden ache that lets me know I'm alive."
From the
January 2018 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
