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 ...

Draw boundaries. Protect your peace. Worry less about pleasing others. The prevailing (and best-selling) wisdom of the day encourages an inward turn. By Emma Goldberg There’s a certain flavor of ...

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 ...

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

A problem in the self-help industry is that people often read advice and think "Awesome idea, I should do that" and then do absolutely nothing to follow through. This is great for self-help writers as ...

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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 ...

The best self-help books offer considered, useful solutions to life's problems, presented in an accessible, entertaining format. They tap into a need in the zeitgeist for inner meaning, for purpose, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the book, Adams offers tips for how to shift your perspectives and retrain your brain to see situations and challenges from a ...

The year 1859 was a big one for British publishing. Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was published, as was John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty”. So too was a now largely forgotten book by an ...