zumothecat 's review for:

Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma by Elizabeth A. Stanley

5.0

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I read this bit by bit over several months, because I found that I got pretty emotional reading some sections and wanted to absorb and recover instead of just zipping through it. But it was engaging enough to zip through if I wanted to... every chapter had some kind of nugget of wisdom that I wanted to talk to my friends about and seek to understand better. I often recommend it to complete strangers. It is incredibly liberating to understand the neuroscience behind stress and trauma. This book helped me forgive myself for things that aren't my fault and put real solutions into practice.