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Gila Lyons

Gila Lyons writes about health, mental health, and social justice. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Health Magazine, Healthline, Vice, Vox, The Huffington Post, GOOD Magazine, Salon, Refinery29, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Morning News, Ploughshares, Brevity, Tablet, The Forward, Fusion, Bitch Magazine, Bust Magazine, and other publications. Her pieces have been anthologized in books and collections, most recently in ABOUT US: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times, (W. W. Norton, 2019). 

Books About Writing
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Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
Several Short Sentences about Writing
The Next American Essay
The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Anniversary)
The Writing Life
The Journalist and the Murderer
Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition (Anniversary)
William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life: Bookmarked
7 Essential Writing Tools: That Will Absolutely Make Your Writing Better (And Enliven Your Soul)
Memoir
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
The Boys of My Youth
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Bluets
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Brain on Fire (10th Anniversary Edition): My Month of Madness
Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma
Ask Me about My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Abandon Me: Memoirs
Sick: A Memoir
Educated: A Memoir
Fiction
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The Last Rose of Shanghai
The Road
Anna Karenina
Cathedral: Stories
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
The Idiot
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
On the Road
Breasts and Eggs
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories
Big Sur
1Q84
Lost Children Archive
The Snow Child
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Nonfiction
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Doing Harm: The Truth about How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
My Heart
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
Mending Life: A Handbook for Mending Clothes and Hearts (with Basic Stitching, Sashiko, Darnin G, and Patching to Practice Sustainab
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into the Mystery and Art of Living
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
The Fire Next Time
Braiding Sweetgrass
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Heart: A History
Between the World and Me
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Essay Collections
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The Next American Essay
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays
The Empathy Exams: Essays
The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Maps to Anywhere (Revised)
The Lost Origins of the Essay
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Glass, Irony and God
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
My Misspent Youth: Essays
Like Love
Motherhood
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The Highly Sensitive Parent: Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You
Motherhood
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
The Blue Jay's Dance
Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
Spiritual Midwifery
Hypnobirthing: A Natural Approach to a Safe, Easier, More Comfortable Birthing
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice
How Toddlers Thrive: What Parents Can Do Today for Children Ages 2-5 to Plant the Seeds of Lifelong Success
Writing about Illness
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Sick: A Memoir
The Two Kinds of Decay
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir
Ask Me about My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Tender Points
Doing Harm: The Truth about How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Brain on Fire (10th Anniversary Edition): My Month of Madness
Death Be Not Proud
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
Anxiety Books
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Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks
The Anxious Truth: A Step-By-Step Guide To Understanding and Overcoming Panic, Anxiety, and Agoraphobia
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (Seventh Edition, Revised)
Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Workbook
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters
Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now
On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Pass Through Panic Lib/E: Freeing Yourself from Anxiety and Fear
The Trauma of Everyday Life
Self-Help/Psychology
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Untamed
How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration
If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path
The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships
Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Revised)
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Health
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Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums
The Blood Sugar Solution: The Ultrahealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!
The Inflammation Spectrum: Find Your Food Triggers and Reset Your System
Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition
Perfect Health--Revised and Updated: The Complete Mind Body Guide (Revised)
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine
Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine (Revised, Updated)
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power (Revised)
Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome
The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine
My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization
Ayurveda: A Life of Balance: The Complete Guide to Ayurvedic Nutrition and Body Types with Recipes (Original)
Heart: A History
Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
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