This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. Many of us turn to self-help when we want to improve our ...

Gone are the days when self-help books were practically required to be cheesy, impersonal, and boring. Now, if you know where to look, you'll find empowering, genuinely useful self-help books designed ...

Some self-help books shout. Others whisper and stay with you. This selection looks at quietly powerful titles that reshape ...

I was listening recently to a self-proclaimed self-help “expert.” The person's goal was to try helping those who are in difficult relationships to remain psychologically whole or to become whole once ...

How’s this for self-help advice? You’re never going to be sure about the future. You’ll always have too much to do and not enough time. You’re never going to sort out your life. You’re not perfect!

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None of the ideas I’m about to share with you came from any self-help book. (OK, maybe a couple). But it’s only through being immersed in the beautiful strangeness of life that these lessons can be ...

When any of these 8 signs indicate your efforts to do better are making you feel worse, it’s time to ease up. Self-help has a dark side, experts warn. If you spot these signs in your own efforts at ...

Research on burnout shows that several factors, such as workload, role overload, and lack of support, predict burnout far ...

In a 1954 New Yorker essay “Howtoism,” writer and critic Dwight Macdonald states that authors of how-to books are to other authors as frogs are to mammals, and encourages people to read other genres.