As a writer, I’m fortunate to connect with authors and experts all over the globe who have vitally important messages to share. While each of these experts sees the world in his or her own very unique ...

Perhaps, she suggests, they should accept their weak or tender spots, all of their little ways of being defensive or ...

If you’re a reader, and you’re on Instagram, chances are the algorithm has fed you posts promising that “this book will change your life” or touting “five books that made me successful.” These claims ...

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 ...

For millions of readers around the world, self-help books offer a discreet, affordable way to access an array of psychological insights and therapeutic techniques. Take a moment to browse your local ...

I first discovered fraternal filmmakers Erik and Carson Bloomquist when I critiqued their breakout feature, She Came from the Woods, for Dread Central in 2023, and I have been a fan of their output ...

Self-help has a dark side, experts warn. If you spot these signs in your own efforts at self-improvement, your quest may have turned toxic. Over 15 years, she reports, she bought hundreds of books, ...

In The Age of Anxiety, W.H. Auden observed that we human beings never become something without pretending to be it first. The corollary is more prosaic but, regrettably, at least as true: We humans ...

We didn’t end up in what is sometimes derisively referred to as “therapeutic” culture just because we are narcissists (though there is that). The truth is, we need therapy to deal with what we have ...

What began as a method of improving one’s life has become something much kinder — and stranger. By Kate Carraway “Wellness” is a word that has come to encompass our latest dominant sociocultural ...

Self-help groups and medications (buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone) both play important roles in opioid addiction treatment. The relative use of these two treatment modalities has not been ...