For the men who want growth without clichés and advice that feels practical, honest and genuinely useful. Self-help books that stay with you long after the last page., Books, Times Now ...

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 ...

Experts recommend these contemplative texts and workbooks to help shift your perspective. By Carolyn Todd Of the thousands of self-help books on the market, which ones are truly helpful? “It’s ...

Any book can be a self-help book, depending on how it’s read. Political pamphlets, epic poems, and contemporary novels can all offer insight into how to live—or how not to. But the self-help genre is ...

These seven Black women self help books by Black authors offer different but supportive methods to bettering ourselves. Since mother earth was struck by a pandemic nearly three years ago, everyone has ...

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.

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Whether we talk about grief, coronavirus symptoms, economic fallout, or isolation, the last year has been a kaleidoscope of crisis. If thinking about the future feels overwhelming, a bucket list—which ...

I have tremendous respect for most sex therapists, but not all—and particularly not those who malign sexual self-help. Some years ago, at a meeting of the nation’s largest sexuality organization, I ...