When I was in seventh grade, I read Jen Sincero’s “You Are A Badass,” an extremely popular self-help book at the front of every bookstore in 2013. Part of the appeal was a friend’s insistence that it ...

The best self-help books don’t promise to “completely change your life” overnight. Instead, a truly great one—written by someone who knows their stuff—will gently nudge you towards small shifts that ...

Cultural shifts in 2025 shaped psychology and self-help books that centred confidence, emotional clarity and practical ...

The self-help industry has shown massive growth in the last several decades. Self-help leaders are coming up with pragmatic solutions to almost every problem we face—whether it is relationships, ...

Many people come to therapy wondering why consuming self-help content isn’t helping them. They ask questions like: “I read more self-help books than anyone I know. It makes me feel inferior because ...

From the 1940s to the ’60s, the Onitsha Market in southeastern Nigeria was the center of a burgeoning movement in self-help literature. Known as Onitsha Market literature, these cheap, locally ...

Heaven helps those who help themselves.” So opens Samuel Smiles’ 1859 book Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct—an appropriately self-published work that birthed the modern genre.

Two managers enter an office party. On seeing the first manager, everyone groans, shrinks or tenses up, wondering who is about to be blamed for some problem or who is going to have their feelings hurt ...

Self-care is the practice of tending to your mind, body, and spirit through relaxation. Some of the best self care methods are journaling, going out in nature, meditating, and more. It's also ...

Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion ...

Negativity from another person is bad enough, but when it comes from your own head, that's rough. Self-talk is what you say to yourself, in your head. It is the monologue running through your mind as ...

On The Quick Fix, by Jesse Singal. The physician, poet, and essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that if the whole of the pharmacopeia were thrown into the sea, it would be the better for mankind ...