| 单词 | self-help |
| 例句 | She’d read stacks of self-help books, and they had made her realize that she’d been living her life for other people. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I have a house full of self-help books and meditation tapes. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He’s reading self-help books and learning new things about himself and the world. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z America had become a Persian bazaar of self-help. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They listened to a positive affirmations self-help CD on the drive. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Under Fuller, Operation Breakthrough would be dedicated to empowerment and self-help. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z His wanting her supplied a missing piece she couldn’t supply for herself; no matter what the self-help books said, desirability was something reflected back to you. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z All I knew was this: Morrie, my old professor, wasn’t in the self-help business. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave me some self-help book, and I threw it on the ground, but I was mad. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z "For one thing, a lot of groups are trying to organize self-help programs in the black communities. Parents' groups, tenants' groups... ." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have no idea. I can’t read it. But a lot of her jobs are junky self-help books that she complains about. She’s more of a science fiction fan.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Vera thinks I’m a self-help book and a room full of crystals. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Of course, there were a million self-help books on these subjects, and plenty of cable TV shows, and $90- per-hour consultation sessions. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As they flourished, evangelical entrepreneurs and strivers built a distinctly evangelical business culture of prayer meetings, self-help books, and business associations. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He’s knocked over his stack of self-help books, and they lie like shallow steps between the couch and the radiator. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I estimate that I spent over $2,300 on self-help books, workshops, and videos to make myself into the man Cindy Sindy wanted me to be. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z There is no research supporting this anecdotal approach, but there are numerous studies supporting the efficacy of sound self-help books with scientifically tested techniques to alleviate human suffering. Reading Between the Lines: in the Law, in Therapy, in True Crime 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z I think you should write some kind of self-help book on how to get stuff done. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z The result is a travelogue with self-help bromides, or an Esalen workshop with blisters. 'Walking the Camino' an eloquent trek to Spanish shrine of St. James 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Sort of in the self-help kind of way which is also great. How to be happier and have fewer regrets: Stop buying stuff and start doing things 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z And next month, Gallery Books will publish a self-help guide, called “The Shopping Diet,” by the red-carpet stylist Phillip Bloch. Shoppers on a ?Diet? Tame the Urge to Buy 2010-07-21T20:16:00Z The one genre I’m not really into: self-help books. Michiko Kakutani: By the Book 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Any of my self-help and new-agey books are guilty pleasures to me. Don Lemon Organizes His Books by Color 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z The KonMari Method and minimalist self-help as a whole works because it is a simple, almost one-step procedure, as memorable as a marketing slogan. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z “The book is divided into three sections — ‘Becoming Me,’ ‘Becoming Us’ and ‘Becoming More’ — that sound like the bland stuff of inspirational self-help,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes. 4 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The popularity of business and self-help books likewise attests to this: many, if not most, are about making oneself more productive. What Jedediah Jenkins learned by bicycling across the world 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Chief executives and management consultants, and those who read their memoirs and self-help books, would no doubt approve. Can Jeff Koons Teach Me to Paint? 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Skallas, who spends his work day reading contracts, does not see himself as a self-help figure or a philosopher. The Lindy Way of Living 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Mat is a “literal Adonis” — a wildly handsome and charismatic sort who speaks in self-help platitudes. Review | ‘The Very Nice Box’ is a very funny office satire 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z After reading self-help books and looking for meaning in other places, he found a life coach. $229 an hour to find your best self: welcome to the world of life coaches 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z What a self-help book can't do is listen or talk back. Adam Phillips: a life in writing 2012-06-01T21:55:08Z The baseball scene is one that could have been plucked from Maps to the Stars, featuring Cusack as a millionaire self-help guru. John Cusack: ‘Hollywood is a whorehouse and people go mad’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z There are self-help books that cull tips from successful entrepreneurs. The Service That Makes Shame a Productivity Hack 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z The scandal for me is that, as a result of reading these self-help books, will there be self-improvement? ‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z It’s kind of a bit of a sexual self-help album. Can Peaches Still Fit in Those Pink Hot Pants? 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z This self-help classic will help you to see the role all of you play in your mother-in-law’s addiction. Perspective | Ask Amy: Gambling addict has family in hock 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z “I wonder if the key word is ‘project,’ ” mused David LeMaire, who buys self-help titles for Borders Books. On Top of the Happiness Racket 2010-02-26T23:31:00Z We’ve found catharsis in apocalyptic science fiction and comfort in romance; advice in self-help guides and a moment of peace, thanks to children’s activity books. What the country is reading during the pandemic: Dystopias, social justice and steamy romance 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z You could call “How to Win Friends & Influence People” the grandfather of America’s self-help movement, except this grandfather is running circles around the rest of the industry, selling 300,000 copies last year. ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’: Why the granddaddy of self-help endures 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Passages: it’s not just a self-help book from the ’70s anymore. Crib Sheet: The 10 Things to Talk About This Weekend 2010-04-07T21:16:00Z The hostage scenario is turned into a self-help circle; the students side with Decker, and they turn everything around. Rereading Stephen King: week four – Rage 2012-07-03T12:59:44Z The book cases are like small treasure chests with an eclectic mix of anything from fiction to obscure self-help, travel guides or crime novels. Public bookshelves spread across Germany 2011-10-14T11:36:09Z I thought it was for people who read the self-help books I never finished. My friend left this world – and I learned to let him go 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Fat Chance is a persuasively indignant public-policy manifesto, but it's also a self-help book; curiously, each strain flatly contradicts the other. Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar by Robert Lustig – review 2013-01-25T10:00:01Z Things really took off in the 1980s, particularly in self-help books. ‘Toxic’ Is Oxford’s Word of the Year. No, We’re Not Gaslighting You. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Are miracle and faith being slyly travestied, or is this just another example of the going secular self-help usage? Mother of All Decisions: Sheila Heti’s New Novel Weighs Whether to Have a Child 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z There is finally the peril, given the subprimate level of intelligence and wit in most self-help books, of leading millions of your innocent brain cells into the killing fields. Books of The Times: Alain de Botton on Sex, and Philippa Perry on Sanity 2013-01-03T22:53:59Z I’m referring to a growing library of self-help guides for the self-care generation. Perspective | In a noisy world, books about silence are booming 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z As Newman must know, numerous self-help books direct readers in how to identify and accept their true self. Letters to the Editor 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z However, the Independent's Arifa Akbar found the novel's story "slightly overfamiliar", and compared it to the self-help books it mimics, "glib in tone, forgotten as soon as it is put down". Book reviews roundup: What the critics thought of: Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Julian Barnes's Levels of Life and Lorna Gibb's West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West 2013-04-05T15:03:01Z Harvey, an amiable comedian with a side gig as a bestselling self-help author, presented the 2015 Miss Universe pageant live from Las Vegas. Anatomy of a scene: how Steve Harvey destroyed Miss Universe 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Corporations use it for personnel management; colleges use it for guidance counseling; individuals use it for self-help. ‘The Personality Brokers’ Conjures the Mother and Daughter Who Helped Us Think of Ourselves as Types 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z It’s a self-help manual mixed with a more practical, self-determining career guide — a kind of “What Color Is Your Parachute?” for those seeking their place or purpose in the 21st century. Your Favorite Internet Astrologer Wrote a Book 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z We fought bitterly over stupid things and read self-help books on communication. Modern Love: From a Moment of Fear, a Lifetime of Clarity 2010-12-30T22:14:53Z This is the problem with self-help generally: real change is hard. Self Helpless Books 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Listening to Price’s approachable narration, I hoped I might join the current self-help trend and, well, feel alive again. For Travel or Hibernation: New Audiobooks to Uplift, Soothe or Terrify 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The title sounds like a self-help book, which isn't far off with this tale of a stuffy Brit exec "liberated" by a free-spirited French woman. This week's new films 2013-02-02T06:00:09Z Each acronym takes on the aura of official legitimacy, making the self-help seminars appear like corporate retreats. Beyond sex trafficking and sashes, HBO's chilling NXIVM docuseries "The Vow" proves a cult's power 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z They may recommend inpatient rehabilitation for up to six months, followed by ongoing therapy and self-help meetings, such as those offered by 12-step programs. Hoffman among thousands of addiction victims 2014-02-03T23:39:37Z This is true even in its strained, connect-the-dots second act, when the dialogue includes way too many self-help truisms. Theater Review: In ‘Ode to Joy,’ Characters Are Bonded by Addictions 2014-02-28T03:00:01Z Unlike many best-selling nonfiction writers, Pollan doesn’t write self-help books that cross-dress as narrative nonfiction. Michael Pollan Drops Acid — and Comes Back From His Trip Convinced 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Every sentence you utter, even the minutest gesture you make, is filtered through volumes of self-help literature, hours upon hours of well-intentioned talk shows and second- and third-hand paraphrasings of the aforementioned. Let me do sobriety my way 2012-08-18T16:00:00Z At the same time, the mystique of psychoanalysis superseded the more simplistic self-help doctrine of “The Power of Positive Thinking” as the culture’s spiritual panacea. Music: The Unmistakable Sensibility of Sondheim 2010-04-30T23:09:00Z In Kelly’s wood-paneled home studio, surrounded by talismanic images of crows, angels, a taxidermy bird and stacks of composition notebooks, his ambition, and self-help plan, was on full display. Ruston Kelly Survived Addiction and Heartbreak. It’s in His ‘Dirt Emo.’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z What, then, explains the gradual decline in the prestige of self-help books that continues to this day? In defence of self-help books 2012-05-17T09:30:01Z Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. Hillary Rodham Clinton: By the Book 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Your neuroses and nostalgia are laid bare in the self-help titles not quite concealed on the lower shelves, the dissonant notes struck by gifts from friends, the repeat reads revealed by cracked spines. In case you missed them: the Guardian's unsung heroes of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z But I prefer to look at the writing style of the self-help genre itself. I’m Not O.K. Neither Are You. Who Cares? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z But acting is now one thing among others; she recently published a self-help book – To the Fullest: The Clean Up Your Act Plan to Lose Weight, Rejuvenate and Be the Best You Can Be. Lorraine Bracco on Goodfellas, therapy, and almost turning down The Sopranos 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z As we’ll see, when the messages get more specific than that, self-help gurus tend to make claims that simply aren’t supported by more reputable research. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z For that reason, when I need to reframe my way of thinking and be clear about the ways I might be sabotaging a process, I consult self-help books. Questlove: By the Book 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z A culture which gives a role to guidance and the self-help book stands a chance of making at least one or two fewer mistakes than the previous generation in the time that remains. In defence of self-help books 2012-05-17T09:30:01Z But the Kardashian ladies were not home-schooled by a former Playboy lingerie model whose specialist subject is the teachings of the bestselling self-help book, The Secret. Jonathan Bernstein's aerial view of American TV 2010-05-28T23:07:00Z “It’s definitely a hobby,” she says of her self-help reading habits, and then describes the appeal of self-help books as only Maria Bamford can. Maria Bamford's favorite self-help books 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z To grasp why, ignore the countless self-help books on communication in relationships and turn instead to an old, rather technical work, How To Do Things With Words, by the philosopher JL Austin. How to pick (and stop) an argument 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Like many of those interviewed for “Going Clear,” he says that Scientology more resembled a self-help organization at first glance. Secrets of the Scientologists: Why people do horrible things for belief 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z And contrary to what self-help books like to tell us, no one is ultimately in charge of their own narrative. Review: ‘Marys Seacole’ Puts Biodrama Through a Kaleidoscope 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z The best self-help books recognize that acceptance is multifaceted, and that it’s no contradiction whatsoever to accept yourself, as you are today, while accepting the possibility that you can become someone new tomorrow. Letters to the Editor 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z It always seems to me, I suggest, that those ballads were a primitive form of psychoanalysis, a way of releasing the collective unconsciousness, with a bit of self-help and cognitive therapy thrown in. Alasdair Roberts: 'I've always been drawn to heavy, big old ballads' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z She bought items like self-help books, hula hoops, cooking utensils, ramen noodles and had the lot industrially pulverized, then pressed by a compacting company into pills. In Detroit, Artists Explore the Riches of the 99-Cent Store 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Their titles can be based on self-help guides, history textbooks, crime fiction or encyclopedias. Collecting Books That Are Just Covers 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z While managing other people’s companies, he tried to sell a screenplay, build websites and write self-help books. Face It, Mom and Dad: I’m Not Special 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Understood as a self-help book, “The Price You Pay for College” represents an extraordinary achievement: It is comprehensive and detailed without being tedious, practical without being banal, impeccably well judged and unusually rigorous. How to Pay for College (and Not Lose Your Shirt) 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z In “Wonderful” she insists, “I never felt so loved” – a recurring theme in Blige’s recent work – but summons little palpable relief; the song has something of a self-help zombie vibe. Mary J. Blige has a new album out. Has anyone noticed? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z As it turns out, all this self-help reading over the years was research I didn’t know I would one day need. Sophie Hannah: By the Book 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Power had been a self-help junkie for more than a decade: “Like eating chocolate cake or watching old episodes of ‘Friends,’ I read self-help for comfort. Can a Self-Help Book a Month Yield a Year’s Worth of Life Changes? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z It is a tricky thing to write a memoir that’s also supposed to function as self-help and tell-all and activist’s manifesto, as well as indictment. The Education of Ellen Pao 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z More than two years after an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony turned deadly, the charismatic self-help author convicted in the tragedy will learn his punishment. Guru to be sentenced in Arizona sweat lodge deaths 2011-11-18T17:56:11Z In this docu-illustration of his popular self-help book, the author Mark Manson, as an onscreen guide, shares his philosophy of fulfillment. ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a #@%!’ Review: A Blunt Philosophy 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z It all begins innocently enough, with Anthony offering some amusing speeches on self-help and the multiverse while gradually introducing the serial killer narrative. Review: ‘Revenge of the Popinjay’ at Dixon Place 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z In this audiobook original, adapted from a stage show whose run was cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, a star of “Parks and Recreation” performs a humorous mix of self-help speech, songs and stand-up comedy. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Jack Kerouac to Black Lives Matter 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z I started to immerse myself in affirmations and visualizations, committing myself completely to all the techniques my self-help library provided. How I ended up in a pyramid scheme 2013-05-23T00:00:00Z The Books on Prescription scheme will see 30 self-help titles provided in libraries across England. GPs to prescribe self-help books for mental health problems 2013-01-31T17:42:10Z Well I wonder with the explosion of discussion of the way the brain works — especially with TV, self-help, pop psychology — if there are significant and persistent misconceptions about the brain and human psychology. How to be happier and have fewer regrets: Stop buying stuff and start doing things 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Late summer in 2013, I was sitting in a self-help group. ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z As romantic comedies based on self-help books go, "Think Like a Man" unfolds pleasantly enough; you know exactly where it's going, but that's probably the case for the book as well. If you 'Think Like a Man,' you may not like this ho-hum rom-com 2012-04-19T17:25:04Z Irrational optimism suffused the financial sector, and the professional purveyors of optimism — the speakers and self-help gurus and seminar organizers — were only too happy to encourage it. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z I can already see the raised hands of self-help authors, relationship coaches and matchmakers eager to ply their trade. Modern Love: GPS on a Path to the Heart 2011-02-11T01:08:11Z My brother and I share an audiobook account and he recently downloaded self-help books, one about how to manage a narcissist. Carolyn Hax: Be a lifeline to a brother whose belligerent wife may be mentally ill 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z When I started, ‘It’s OK to Be Different’ was in the self-help section of Borders. In Todd Parr’s world, it’s OK to make mistakes 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The book, Odell’s first, is equal parts philosophical self-help and environmentalist tract, and it offers a fresh mode for thinking about life under technocapitalism––and also some suggestions for what might be done. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Like others of his generation, he can’t admit he has a problem and ask for help – a self-reliance that will seem increasingly quaint as the self-help generation begins expecting everyone to aid their self-actualization. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z "Winky": George Saunders' offbeat New Yorker story, about a guy who is susceptible to self-help schemes and bullying gurus, was adapted by Spike Friedman for this multimedia, collectively created piece by the inventive Satori Group. Coming up on Seattle stages: Fun-loving gents, a military widow, an aggravating sister and more 2010-03-18T21:22:00Z It’s nice of you to acknowledge that I might be resistant to the self-help approach. The truth about female desire: It’s base, animalistic and ravenous 2013-06-02T00:30:00Z Granted, reading a book that coaches you on how to reject self-help is like downing a shot of Patrón to get the nerve to stop drinking. I’m Not O.K. Neither Are You. Who Cares? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z By the end, a self-help tone swallows the book whole. Books of The Times: The Inner Lives of Airports and Those Who Wander Through Them 2010-10-26T15:34:00Z Frank Loesser’s ballad “Adelaide’s Lament” finds the character backstage reading, between sneezes, a self-help book. Faith Prince brings her 'Faith-isms' to L.A. Opera's 'Wonderful Town' 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Sarah made Judaism the focus of her endless search for meaning, finally driving the genuinely religious Raquel to berate her for conflating religion with self-help. ‘Transparent’ Season 3: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z It’s a slight book, as self-help primers tend to be, but there are a few pearls. The Power Pastor: How A.R. Bernard Built a New York Megachurch 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z “Atlas of the Heart” by Brené Brown My friend, the actress Elizabeth Rodriguez, is always up on the latest self-help books, articles and podcasts. Liza Colón-Zayas Swears by Brené Brown, ‘Hacks’ and Hugs 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Stealing every scene she’s in is Rachel Dratch as the model’s former assistant, who has parlayed her experience with being bullied into a moderately successful career writing self-help books for young adults. Amazon Posts TV Pilots 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Where he's most persuasive is not in this self-help stuff, which is pretty obvious. Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks by Oliver James – review 2013-02-14T07:00:02Z “Dress for success” is a familiar mantra of self-help books, particularly those focused on helping one succeed in the business world. Pharrell is onto something: Dressing for success means deviating from the norm 2014-02-17T00:00:00Z By 1950, Hubbard had developed a self-help system called dianetics, which was to form the basis of the Church of Scientology, whose assets are now reputed to be in the order of £1bn. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright – review 2013-02-02T16:00:01Z Not when the self-help idea runs so deep in the American psyche. Post-Oprah, Americans still hooked on self-help 2011-07-12T21:45:00Z Smith was aided with the book by self-help author Mark Manson, which may be why this otherwise exhilarating audiobook is burdened at times with passages of hokey advice on self-empowerment. Review | Should celebrities narrate their audiobooks? Will Smith and Mel Brooks make the case for yes. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Mackey, the bombastic misogynist and self-help guru portrayed by Tom Cruise in "Magnolia." Charlie Sheen wants $10 million for tell-all memoir 2011-02-26T16:27:00Z That was something very interesting to me, as someone who reads self-help books, which often have a tone of I’ve figured out everything and here I’m going to impart my knowledge. Stop saying you’re sorry: “Women will apologize to inanimate objects for bumping into them” 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z In October 2009, Mr. Ray, a self-help guru, oversaw a sweat-lodge retreat in Arizona that led to the deaths of three people and the hospitalization of nearly 20 others. What’s on TV Saturday: Key and Peele in ‘Keanu’ and Emma Stone on ‘S.N.L.’ 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z No matter what burdens surface on this show, the calm and collected self-help guide and author Iyanla Vanzant doesn’t quit until her guests confront their fears, insecurities and regrets. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘George Michael: Freedom’ and ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z He finds self-help books not just “ineffectual” but “odorous.” Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps unsurprisingly, Bamford is a fan of self-help books, a genre often overlooked or even stigmatized in its own right, despite its popularity. Maria Bamford's favorite self-help books 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z It may be that the key to enjoying any celebrity self-help tome is to find the crevices between messages intended and unintended. Review | At 87, William Shatner has advice on how to live well. Should we listen? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The same lost souls who gathered in the suburban revival tents of consciousness-raising and encounter groups, or who absorbed the preachments of self-help and self-actualization gurus, were secretly looking for punishment. Cultural Studies: Thomas Piketty, the Economist Behind ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ Is the Latest Overnight Intellectual Sensation 2014-04-25T23:51:03Z But even with a PhD degree, considerable insight, and bookshelves filled with self-help books, her depression hasn’t budged for thirteen months. You’re making your depression worse: Self-help is bringing us down 2014-02-16T16:30:00Z I paid my bills by working as a personal assistant, first for a self-help writer and then for a rock musician. ‘Dear Me’: A Novelist Writes to Her Future Self 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z If, as the researchers suspected, mental illness has a seasonal component, monthly dips and peaks in American self-help searches should be inverted from Australian ones, where winter arrives in March and lasts through September. Is mental health seasonal? 2013-04-21T15:00:00Z These are challenging traditional bestsellers – classics, self-help and business "how to" books – and newer stars of Indian publishing whose works retell stories often drawn from the everyday experiences of middle-class Indian youth in simple language. Record advance 2013-03-04T19:00:52Z It is our own mass version of a self-help teaching. America's curious political awakening to Marianne Williamson 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z His wife, Rachel Hollis — the massively successful self-help guru of the moment — told him that she was pursuing a lucrative deal for her company. Review | The path to enlightenment — and a happy marriage — the Hollis way 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z If this sounds inscrutable as musical technique, that’s because it is lifted from a self-help book about gaining influence over others called “The 48 Laws of Power,” by Robert Greene. Bob Dylan, Fanboy 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z I’m not much of a reader, unless it’s like a self-help book. Demi Lovato on Shrugging Off the Haters 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z In each case, it was the perfect gift, because the book contains enough wisdom for multiples life crises, like self-help for people who truly love to read. Last-minute holiday shopping list! 2012-12-21T17:57:00Z This past Saturday, the New York Times published a piece called “Learning to Love Criticism,” by Tara Mohr, a self-help author whose forthcoming book is called “Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message.” Stop telling women not to “take things personally”: Ed Champion and the plague of gendered criticism 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Most recently, her first book, “What a Time to Be Alone,” published in July, is an antidote to traditional self-help books, which she says often speak only to “privileged people from the first world.” Chidera Eggerue Has Some Tips (and Hashtags) for Self-Love 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z I just think there are certain things a self-help book can't do for you, but anything it can do is good. Adam Phillips: a life in writing 2012-06-01T21:55:08Z At first sight, it poses as a self-help book. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-03-28T08:00:02Z He certainly talks a lot — in precise elocution, full of long sentences he’s memorized from self-help websites — but with the demeanor of a robot programmed to speak like a business executive in a hurry. Review: Nightcrawler: Jake Gyllenhaal Wants to Take a Picture of You in Pain 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The website describes its services as a “daily self-help program” that is aimed to help people manage stress, anxiety, fatigue, burn-out or depression. Viral TikTok challenge highlights stress, depression, anxiety test 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z They’ll seek marriage counseling, or buy self-help books, or simply pack their bags. Don’t walk down that aisle just yet 2012-10-04T16:48:00Z “In-Between Days” is part diary, part memoir, part self-help book. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z I've done things within Scientology that I've found useful, but it's very much a thing that you use within your life like a lot of self-help movements, or 12-step programs, or crystal healing, or whatever. Juliette Lewis' career reboot in full swing 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Now the "Taxi" actress and self-help author is a consultant on the new TV crime drama "Unforgettable" featuring a detective played by Poppy Montgomery who can't forget the past. A Minute With: Marilu Henner's "Unforgettable" life 2011-09-14T09:19:02Z Q. What would you say to someone who called it a self-help book? Jenny Lawson totally gets the coloring book craze. In fact, her new book is one. 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z And thanks to the runaway success of "Drag Race," there's also a market for this kind of self-help literature, especially in the realm of parody. Asking for it: "Drag Race" winner Bianca Del Rio has questionable advice for you 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z And the show is strangely apolitical in the solutions it proposes: self-help and therapy. Review: ‘She’ Brings Stories of Sexual Violence to the Stage 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z It almost seems as if these books are being bought and read as if they were a genre of self-help book. ‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Toure was among the winners announced Monday in 10 self-help categories for a Book for a Better Life Award. TV host Toure wins prize for his motivational book 2012-03-13T02:46:04Z A super melodramatic ballad that is essentially a self-help song about self-esteem disguised as a holiday song. Here are the 10 most annoying Christmas songs of all time 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The scenario is based on a real-life self-help guide that urges women to combat male rapacity with equally cynical manipulation of access to "the cookie". Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z Over the following two years, minimalism kept popping up around me – in new hotel designs, fashion brands and self-help books. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Fireside was an old self-help imprint for Touchstone's parent company, Simon & Schuster. Ladybird Book spoofs coming to U.S this fall 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Within this crusade, there are smaller spin-off TV shows, endless self-help resources and even builders who have given up traditional home building to focus on minimalistic construction. My tiny house reality: When the downsized life is the only life you can afford 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z Walk into the self-help section of any bookstore, and you’ll be confronted with titles by gurus of every stripe, promising to help you overhaul your life. 6 Podcasts to Help You Get Organized 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z And so “WWAY Health” was born — a fictitious self-help service that allowed Yanya, in surreal and darkly hilarious interludes spaced throughout the album, to lampoon modern wellness culture. Nilüfer Yanya’s Music Is a Family Affair 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Glancing connections emerge between five main characters, including a "philanthropist" who writes self-help books, and a spa receptionist who devours them. Tash Aw: a life in writing 2013-03-15T08:00:27Z I read self-help books in my spare time. I signed up for a suicide hotline: What I got sounded more like phone sex 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z As Alain de Botton observes in his latest self-help manual, How to Think More About Sex, it was not until the 18th century that the idea of a love-based marriage took hold. Life after lust – the appeal of sexless marriage 2012-06-01T21:28:27Z But Sidney kills her would-be killer and stars in several sequels, becoming a self-help author. How to watch Netflix as a feminist 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z It’s everywhere these days—business jargon, marketing catch phrases, sports mantras, and the idioms of religion and self-help. Going All In on “All In” 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z On the phone she joked that “The Secret,” a best-selling self-help book that preaches the power of positive thinking, must work, because “I’ve been watching NBC Thursday nights my whole life.” 2 Networks Pin Their Hopes on One Comedian 2011-05-20T23:25:40Z I spent most of 2014 reading books — both fiction and self-help — about separation. A Debut Novel Sees Divorce Through the Eyes of a Child 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z But there's more to Jackson's Way than a silly spoof of self-help guru waffle. Will Adamsdale: the guru of nonsense 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z Why not just go straight to the self-help section — the secular equivalent of the sermon — as so many American readers already do? Can you identify? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z “Poetry saved my life” — well, there’s a self-help trope that’s all too easy to set to uplifting music. Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop: A Different Kind of Literary Tango 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z She enjoys watching old episodes of Friends, she insists; she's partial to 1980s movies and upbeat self-help books, and when she writes, she just writes what comes naturally. Julia Davis: laughing in the dark 2012-08-10T22:00:36Z She credited the self-help book, "The Magic of Believing" by Claude M. Bristol, with giving her the courage to enter the business. Humorist Phyllis Diller dies at 95 in Los Angeles 2012-08-20T20:27:41Z "There's a lot of self-help out there that is little more than common sense dressed up in esoteric language," he said. Alain de Botton launches series of 'philosophical' self-help books 2011-04-06T15:59:10Z Rebirth, renewal, self-empowerment – these themes might be terrific buzz words for a self-help book, but Keys never humanizes them, no matter how many times she lets a rasp creep into her voice. Album review: Alicia Keys, 'Girl on Fire' 2012-11-25T22:55:00Z Judith Newman writes in her latest self-help column. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z “Who Moved My Cheese?” has all the requisite qualities of these other self-help bestsellers: extravagant claims to universal application, great profundity nested in numbing simplicity, catchphrases designed for infinite repetition. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Salon spoke with Benincasa about being a “real” artist, subverting the self-help genre, overcoming her own prejudices and learning to stop apologizing. Stop saying you’re sorry: “Women will apologize to inanimate objects for bumping into them” 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Magazines and self-help books are full of advice about smiling through it and saving your defense for later. Riff: A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical 2012-08-15T15:40:06Z Primarily written in a way so as not to insult the intelligence of literary self-help seekers, they also want to keep you from fearing that certain things in life might just permanently not be O.K. Review: ‘How to Be Bored’ Looks at How to Deal With the Blahs 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Journalists and scholars, politicians and photographers, along with spiritual leaders, self-help gurus and conspiracy theorists, all rushed to their computers. Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Whenever a self-help book about sleep crosses my desk, I toss it. ‘Wild Nights’ Offers a History of Sleep (and Sleeplessness) 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Though Rage offers tangible steps to help build a healthier life, she is adamant that this is not a self-help book. ‘Of course Serena Williams was angry’: writer Soraya Chemaly on why women should unleash their rage 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z With an engaging, casual voice and an easy humor, Mr. Lentz sidles up to the idea of a self-help book rooted in Christianity, and then aims for something different. Tattoos, Bieber, Black Lives Matter and Jesus 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z The autobiography and self-help book will include stories about Carter's teenage years in the multiplatinum Backstreet Boys, his struggles with substance and alcohol abuse and the hardships of his family. Singer Nick Carter to release memoir Sept. 24 2013-05-23T14:18:12Z Her prominence depended almost entirely on her gusto for extravagant living, piquant quips about jewels and sex, and her self-help tips for the modern-day paramour. Zsa Zsa Gabor, high-living actress of outrageous wit, dies 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z That’s one reason that bands like Jimmy Eat World — a pioneer of emo’s earnest, churning confessionals and self-help manifestoes — hate the term. Music Review: Growing Older With Less Empathy 2010-10-15T22:59:00Z Or so says the momentum, a kind of self-help program that cures what ails you. | 'The Momentum': Life Is an Existential Cabaret, My Friend 2011-02-09T01:42:27Z Written as a self-help manual, it tells the story of a Starbucks barista who gets recruited by a fictional tech start-up where he is the only Black employee. Cold-Calling Strangers Taught Mateo Askaripour How to Be a Writer 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z A clue lies in “10% Happier,” which positions itself as self-help for those suspicious of the genre. Meditation for Strivers 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z We suffer a similar fate when we’re awash in the orthodoxy of self-help. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The author of a self-help book titled “Altered Dreams . . .: Living with Gender Disappointment” followed every instruction she could find about how to naturally conceive a girl, but wound up with three biological sons. It’s a boy! It’s a girl! For some parents, learning their baby’s sex is a disappointment 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Part sociology, part memoir, part self-help, this entertaining guide to the education system’s most notorious institution aims to explain why trauma and humiliation figure so prominently in our associations with junior high. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Spiritual self-help seeks less often to fix, and more often, to understand, and to soothe and calm like self-care. When Did Self-Help Become Self-Care? 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z To wit, here is a new self-help genre one might call “the power woman next door.” Don’t Do It: The Simple Solution to Clearing the To-Do List 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Personality typing has long bubbled merrily atop the self-help soup. Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z This is an unusual self-help book in the annals of armchair psychiatry or motivational books. “Archer” and “Bob’s Burgers” star H. Jon Benjamin is more than just a pretty voice 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The real nostalgia that this slack, earnest, self-help tract of a show evokes is for a time when a TV drama’s main job was to tell a story. Review: The More, Further (Final?) ‘Tales of the City’ 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z If there’s anything worth cribbing from Power’s self-help cheat sheet, perhaps it’s that and that alone. Review | Is there such a thing as too much self-care? One woman found out. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The scabrous class clown begins to feel a little too much like a lecturer at the Learning Annex promoting his latest self-help book. | 'Ghetto Klown': A Queens Guy Toughs It Out in Hollywood 2011-03-23T02:01:03Z “I think self-help these days is more about providing a collective scene to hold the chaos rather than going off into a quiet corner to decompress.” Soak, Steam, Spritz: It’s All Self-Care 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z It is no injustice to describe Marcus Aurelius's Meditations as one of the finest works of self-help ever written, as relevant to someone facing a financial meltdown as the disintegration of an empire. In defence of self-help books 2012-05-17T09:30:01Z It would be easier to accept a self-help group for Disney princesses. Fashion's real victims 2012-02-13T19:30:01Z “Truth Facts” may not be marketed as a self-help guide, but in its own snarky way it suggests how to be better, how to recognize our folly and do something real. Brilliant compendium of ‘Truth Facts’ shows us how silly we all can be 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Walk through any activewear store and you will be bombarded with empowerment and self-help rhetoric emphasizing the importance of achieving a fit, healthy lifestyle with the right outfit and a positive attitude. Sure they’re comfortable, but those leggings and sports bras are also redefining modern femininity 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z “I don’t do self-help books,” I said, with obstinate pride and lofty disdain. Breaking bad: how to give up drinking, smoking, nail-biting and other unwanted habits 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s not for nothing, as one sharp-eyed reader, MrsDohler, pointed out, that Eunice is seen engrossed in the self-help book “The Sensuous Woman.” When Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal Went Screwball 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z I’m not a reader of self-help books, unless cookbooks and old poetry anthologies count. Books of The Times: Clark Howard?s ?Living Large In Lean Times? - Review 2011-12-22T23:21:10Z Yet, the more I pedaled like a frantic lab rat, the more he peddled self-help wisdom seemingly borrowed from HomeGoods wall art. The spin instructor’s ‘love yourself’ approach didn’t motivate her. So what would? 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Consuming a short stack of self-help and academic books always reminds me what I dislike about the genres. Books of The Times: 3 Books Offer Ways to Cut the Cord, If Only Briefly 2013-08-18T22:14:01Z On a blustery December day, I talked to Bugun Choi, who had already spent four hours holding a placard in Union Square to bring attention to his self-help nonprofit organization, the Society of Natural Science. These Booths Are Made For Talking: Soothers Hit the Streets 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z But, Lee's candor in her healing process will likely resonate with self-help fans. Review: Om is where the heart is 2013-01-24T19:09:08Z Last year, he announced the discovery of “Manly Health and Training,” a previously unknown 47,000-word self-help treatise that Whitman published in The New York Atlas in 1858. In a Walt Whitman Novel, Lost for 165 Years, Clues to ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z There are references to Watergate, the self-help movement and the transformation of news into entertainment. Review: In ‘Christine,’ Why Did She Pull the Trigger? We Don’t Know 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “I am not a self-help guy at all,” he said. Why Self-Help Guru James Altucher Only Owns 15 Things 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Of course, as the self-help mantra goes, neither New York, nor anyone else, can really save Lindsay Lohan — Ms. Lohan must save herself. Can New York Save Lindsay Lohan? 2010-08-20T23:10:00Z But when her stage goes dark after 25 seasons, so will a spotlight sharply focused on entrepreneurs, writers and self-help gurus, and with it, a method that generations used to calibrate career success. Who Will Be Oprah?s Last Star? 2010-11-15T19:07:00Z But a lot of the self-help and advice industry, which your book is lampooning, revolves around people who are thinking, “Oh, it's too late for me. How do I start over?” Asking for it: "Drag Race" winner Bianca Del Rio has questionable advice for you 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The sex and relationships commentators who arose in the self-help boom of the 1980s emphasized their expert status. The Sex-Ed Queens of YouTube Don’t Need a Ph.D. 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z But when mysterious accidents start happening, Lily and her mom start to wonder if “Zenith” is a self-help book or a demonic instruction manual. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z His psychological transformation, communicated in flashbacks of an incarcerated Banks discovering James Allen’s 1903 self-help essay, “As a Man Thinketh,” is blunt, but effective. ‘Brian Banks’ Review: Falsely Accused, and Fighting Back 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Novels are not self-help books or manifestos, and sometimes the contemporary critical focus on representation and symbols can feel like a weak proxy for actual politics. The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z It's a business and self-help book told with all of Gold's characteristic compassion and humility. Ari Gold gets a book deal 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Since 1998, when it first appeared in print, this brief self-help title has sold almost 30 million copies, and its sales are still Gouda. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z It's a simple but wickedly effective send-up of the self-help industry: according to Jackson, the only way to achieve lasting happiness is to make your life as pointless as possible. This week's new comedy 2011-01-01T00:05:55Z Epicurus wrote some 300 self-help books on almost every topic, including On Love, On Justice and On Human Life. In defence of self-help books 2012-05-17T09:30:01Z I bragged to every Raya date about my future as a famous self-help writer. Leaving Los Angeles 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z This self-help guide, we’re told, has “gone viral,” a process once known simply as becoming a best seller. ‘Reach Me,’ Starring Sylvester Stallone and Thomas Jane 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z I'm not talking about the how-to scoldings of the self-help industry but the less pushy influence of a good novel. Open Thread: New year's resolutions in fiction 2012-12-31T09:00:00Z Contrary to the message of a thousand self-help books, Mercy’s efforts to begin a career at midlife are fruitless. Anne Tyler, Close-Up Artist, Zooms Out for a Novel of Family Rifts 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z She addresses it most directly in “I Drink Wine,” a crescendo of confession and self-help underpinned by churchy piano and organ: “How can one become so bounded by choices that somebody else makes?” she sings. Adele Has a Lot of Big Feelings on ‘30’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z More often, though, there is a self-help vibe to the proceedings. Review: Weaving Memoir With Shakespeare to Find Her Father 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z He adds with a hint of sarcasm: "It's a self-help seminar, let's be honest." John Lloyd makes Edinburgh debut 2013-07-26T07:03:01Z He hasn't been interested in self-help literature or Alcoholics Anonymous. Perspective | Ask Amy: Miscarriage devastates expectant couple 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Black Eagle” is a two-part song that sets its mysticism and self-help to modal phrases and quiet finger snaps. Review: Janet Jackson’s ‘Unbreakable’ Focuses on Love Outside the Bedroom 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Forget the tv commercials or the self-help books about relationships - just pay attention. The Drive Home 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Others might inflect “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” with sarcasm or deliver “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” as a self-help harangue, but not Mr. McCartney. New Music: A New Album From Paul McCartney 2012-02-06T16:02:08Z She is winning and open, and in the series she throws herself with gusto into the rituals and make-work projects of reality-show self-help. Television Review: You Can Feel Her Pain (Just Don?t Ask Questions) 2011-06-09T22:00:23Z But one aspect of her life goes unaddressed: her membership in the Church of Scientology, which was founded upon another self-help book, L. Ron Hubbard’s “Dianetics.” The Gospel of Rebecca Minkoff 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z What you get: A self-help book along with tools — a workbook, access to a webinar — to achieve personal betterment goals. Review | Looking for the perfect book? Here are nine subscription boxes that can help. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z I avoided self-help groups where they talked about their gratitude. ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z About 80% of depressed people everywhere, Patel said, need only what he called a “hope intervention” – someone to guide them through self-help. Busting the myth that depression doesn't affect people in poor countries 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Had Mr. Gaines used speeches by infamous fascists or lectures by self-help gurus, the effect would not be much different. ‘Sites of Reason’ Underway at Museum of Modern Art 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Its problem, as a mission statement, is not that it’s symptomatic of our self-help culture; Aristotle saw narrative as therapeutic, too. Riff: ?Why Write Novels at All?? 2012-01-13T22:19:00Z Combining memoir, self-help, tell-all and manifesto, Pao recalls the disillusionment that led her to sue a Silicon Valley venture capital firm for gender discrimination. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z It really is a nice self-help book for regular people. Relationship advice: Forget Venus and Mars 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z But way before there were self-help books about it, my mom always followed her heart. Liv Tyler: ‘My fathers are both unconventional’ 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Craft observed that too many ex-servicemen traumatised by their experience of war "self-diagnose and self-help, and possibly don't find the best company to do so in". War veterans' mental sufferings dramatised in ex-para's movie 2011-03-20T00:05:50Z Sacks — the late neurologist best known for his book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” — eschews self-help but embraces mystery and acceptance of a condition that remains shrouded. Review | Migraines have plagued me for years. A new book puts my pain in perspective. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z I have a small library of self-help books. My weekend with Oprah Winfrey and trying to find the life I want But instead of mysteries, I would change the self-help field forever. Leaving Los Angeles 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Now he is angry, stressed out and miserable, in spite of his friends’ efforts to cheer him up with jokes and self-help exercises. | 'Looking for Eric': Steve Evets and Eric Cantona in Ken Loach?s Film 2010-05-13T22:40:00Z For trust to grow, we must reduce the power of the state and devolve our lives into parishes, computer networks, clubs and teams, self-help groups and small businesses—“everything small and local.” Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z The Kama Sutra, as a book of technique – a sexual self-help manual for the socially naive, a way for geeks to make it with girls – is fascinating, therefore, in what it omits. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z These coronavirus self-help guides offer tips on how to maintain mental health and relationships under quarantine. Our Health Is in Danger. Wellness Wants to Fill the Void. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Longshore recently published a book, “You Don’t Look Fat, You Look Crazy,” a combination of self-help and memoir dense with her bawdy illustrations, rejoinders and briny aphorisms. Ashley Longshore Is Fashion’s Latest Art Darling 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z But the self-help framework — the stentorian assertions of diagnosis and cure — does Havrilesky a disservice. Books About Losing Faith That Will Give You Hope 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z On her shelf are feminist texts, books on mysticism, on every kind of psychology, the history of religion, on physics, and Emma Goldman and Walter Benjamin, self-help books, treatises on alchemy and magic. How Ursula K. Le Guin Fooled the Poet Robert Hass 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z How far is it from a Transformers, or a He's Just Not That Into You, the one based on a children's toy, the other on a bestselling self-help book? The Social Network: the ultimate brand identification film? 2010-08-27T13:37:00Z “I think that’s why he would consult with psychologists and engage in self-help — to instill more discipline.” Capturing the Short, Glamorous Life of a Forgotten Broadway Lyricist 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z In the brackish waters where philosophy meets self-help, a certain kind of unreadable book comes to spawn. 'How We Are,’ by Vincent Deary, Mixes Psychology and Philosophy 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z When booksellers do sell new books, they tend to prefer religious, educational and self-help books to fiction titles considered slow-selling. Nigerian authors look West to gain their fame 2012-01-26T11:21:09Z Describing his mental approach, he sounded at times more like a self-help guru than an athlete. Novak Djokovic Is No. 1, Like It or Not 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z "We need self-help books more than ever before," he said. Alain de Botton launches series of 'philosophical' self-help books 2011-04-06T15:59:10Z Here he listens to a recorded version of Frank Bettger's best-selling self-help book. ‘Mad Men’ and Its Love Affair With ’60s Pop Culture 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Last year, the entire self-help industry — books and products — was worth nearly $10 billion, according to Market Data Enterprises. Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z For 2,000 years in the history of the west, most of philosophy simply was self-help. In defence of self-help books 2012-05-17T09:30:01Z I met with 30 different families over six months, not just victims of terrorism but brutal murder, in self-help groups in the U.S. and Germany. Diane Kruger Returns Home and Wins Big 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z “And perhaps half the number of diet/self-help/well-being books would be quite sufficient,” says the classicist Mary Beard, whose latest book is “Twelve Caesars.” Mary Beard Would Like a Moratorium on Churchill Biographies, Thank You 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Charles used to call it his “ultimate self-help book.” James Lee Burke: By the Book 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z “But as a child of the generation that benefited from earlier struggles but was too young to be involved in the movements, I stayed in my sweet spots — information, education and self-help.” The Roots of Black Pain in America 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z The books are displayed on a wide wall and span art, cooking, self-help, decorating and children's literature. Finding books in the least expected places around L.A. 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z "She took the self-help to heart," said Brown's cousin Tom McFeeley. Jury begins deliberating Ariz. sweat lodge case 2011-06-22T00:23:23Z He also produces "The Doctors" and other TV shows and publishes best-selling diet and self-help books. Dr. Phil sues National Enquirer over spousal abuse articles 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Like many founders’ stories, Ulmer’s book is meant partly as self-help. Catching the Buzz: A Young C.E.O. on Her Lemonade Business, Which Was Inspired by Bees 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z She hosted the self-help author Louise Hay, who once said Holocaust victims may have been paying for sins in a previous life. Beliefs: The Church of Oprah Winfrey and a Theology of Suffering 2011-05-28T00:30:15Z Barrymore starred in, as well as co-produced, the comedy He's Just Not That Into You, which was based on a popular self-help book. Drew Barrymore to direct romantic comedy How to Be Single 2011-03-16T14:22:25Z When you look at the self-help shelves with a coldly impartial eye, this isn’t especially surprising. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z Today, those titles are often shelved in bookstores under self-help. The Wide-Angle Vision, and Legacy, of bell hooks 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z But she has spent the past year using therapy, meditation and self-help to address the boundary between “old Elna” and “new Elna”. ‘I just want to cut it off’: the weight-loss patients who no longer fit their skin 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z A self-help tone sneaks in: “To be hung up on money, other people, better or lesser realities etc. is only blocking your freedom.” Books of The Times: ?Journals of Spalding Gray,? Edited by Nell Casey - Review 2011-10-17T21:27:58Z The book “University of Success,” Og Mandino’s compendium of self-help advice published in 1982, includes a chapter by Michael Korda titled, “How to Look Like a Winner,” that contains a further subsection called, “Carrying Things.” The Mirror: My Personal Baggage 2011-01-28T20:15:31Z Other times it felt like a sermon, or the opening remarks of a self-help group leader opening a meeting in a church basement. Oprah's warm, funny, self-aggrandizing goodbye 2011-05-25T23:07:00Z She had strong opinions and was as likely to form her views from the most laughable self-help books as from great literature. Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions 2010-06-01T20:30:00Z “There are a lot of self-help support groups out there,” she says. She ended a pregnancy so her child wouldn’t suffer. Now she helps others like her. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z SAT-SUN Vendors, lunch available, proceeds support hunger relief and self-help projects locally and worldwide, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Community calendar 2011-11-16T23:08:03Z Eggerue admits that she can be a nihilist, which is also something that separates her from the saccharine world of self-help. Writer Chidera Eggerue on what #SaggyBoobsMatter is really about 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Its joys, sorrows, variations and complications are the subjects of countless academic tomes and self-help books, of pulp romances and classic novels. Review: ‘Cloud Nine,’ a Comedy of Fluid and Complicated Couplings 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z There is no shortage of professed wisdom on getting through heartbreak: There are women’s magazines, advice columnists, self-help books and, of course, the cliche Sunday brunch proclamations of “you deserve better.” The breakup coach: Sometimes ice cream and Alanis aren’t enough 2013-05-05T00:00:00Z His Plan B is to start a Web site for people seeking advice about getting out of debt, and he’s stocking up on self-help books promising that “if you follow your passions, you’re halfway there.” Theater Review: ‘Detroit,’ With Amy Ryan and David Schwimmer 2012-09-19T02:00:20Z Frum’s prescriptions for responding to Trump amount to cut-rate self-help: “Resistance begins by refusing to let him corrupt you personally.” Will Democracy Survive President Trump? Two New Books Aren’t So Sure 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Brooks is neither mocking nor endorsing her self-help nostrums, but if anything George is a little envious of Lisa's relentlessly positive attitude and her refusal to be dishonest with herself. "How Do You Know": A deliciously messy holiday rom-com 2010-12-17T01:30:00Z Some of the strong, serious polemic of the 70s is gone, replaced by books aimed at young women, often funny and featuring nods to self-help. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z And in the last decade, he’s become something of a motivational guru, publishing two self-help books and amassing 2 million followers on Twitter, who retweet the frequent aphorisms from @UncleRush. The Enlightenment Of Russell Simmons 2012-10-18T14:42:42Z Described as “part ‘Pygmalion,’ part Busby Berkley, part self-help lexicon,” the show opens in January. ArtsBeat: New Play by Pulitzer Winner To Be Part of LCT3 Season 2013-07-10T18:58:30Z He has an ear for how people can weaponize idealism; he understands how the language of self-care and self-help can gussy up plain old self-interest. Review: ‘The White Lotus’ Offers Scenery From the Class Struggle 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z There’s nothing unusual about Khaled’s keys: all successful self-help books preach similar themes of moderation, diversified risk, personal codes, and humility. The Goofy Charm of DJ Khaled’s “The Keys” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z At 1 hour 45 minutes, “Voices of Swords” should deliver more than a few chuckles and a lukewarm self-help message. In ‘Voices of Swords,’ Aging Parents Are at Issue 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Neither serious polemic nor personal memoir, the book ends up somewhere in between in the murky vagueness of the self-help genre. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z It’s rare for a self-help book to crack our list of recommended titles. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Dixon attempted to capitalise on the momentum by founding a lobbying and self-help organisation, the Jazz Composers Guild. Bill Dixon obituary 2010-07-22T17:15:00Z The subject of attention is everywhere in publishing, spanning genres from self-help to satire to fiction. Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One. 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Which self-help book has really helped you out? Ernest Cline: By the Book 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z This isn’t a self-help question – I’m not after a panacea – but where should we be looking to learn this art of living? How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z McCarthy, 41, won the Emmy on her first try for playing a teacher who finds romance with a man she meets at a self-help group for overeaters. Melissa McCarthy wins best comedy actress Emmy 2011-09-19T00:50:26Z Diverting and often amusing as it can be to join Power on her George Plimpton-like adventure through some of the classics of self-help, readers won’t have trouble anticipating the happy ending. Can a Self-Help Book a Month Yield a Year’s Worth of Life Changes? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Photograph: WireImage I thought he was a health advocate and self-help guru. Pass notes No 3,233: Michael J Fox 2012-08-21T19:00:01Z And if you think that will stop him from telling anyone else how to live their life, you haven’t reckoned with the enduring template of celebrity self-help. Review | At 87, William Shatner has advice on how to live well. Should we listen? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The poem, Rudyard Kipling’s “If,” is well-loved in Britain — it has been repeatedly voted the nation’s favorite — and is almost a pioneer of self-help writing. British Students Paint Over Kipling Mural, Protesting ‘Racist Attitudes’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z So by now there’s a shelf of book on happiness – histories, self-help books. Why most self-help plans don’t work: “You can’t just cut and paste a few things happy people do and hope that your life is going to improve” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z But the series provides an invaluable lesson in celebrity self-help. Television Review: You Can Feel Her Pain (Just Don?t Ask Questions) 2011-06-09T22:00:23Z Most self-help books make exhausting demands of their readers. I’m Not O.K. Neither Are You. Who Cares? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Between self-help books and dating coaches, you received a lot of advice. The Science of Single: One Year's Worth of Dating Advice 2011-01-12T17:45:00Z After all, readers don’t pick up self-help books just to ruminate on life’s dilemmas, but to be guided to solutions. Self-help hits rock Botton 2013-05-13T19:58:00Z Yet self-help books tend to talk solely of personal psychology and motivations, neglecting the social and economic context that Lerner's book so acutely describes. Why reading fiction with friends is therapeutic too 2013-02-01T16:20:42Z Grandma Death, the old lady, was a real person and self-help lessons were actually on my school curriculum. How we made Donnie Darko 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z It starts to sound like a species of intellectual and stylistic kitsch, a preciousness that is the preserve today mostly of pseudo-spiritual treatises and vacant self-help volumes. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It is riddled with cynicism and sarcasm and is wonderfully relatable if you have ever thought of trying one of the many self-help techniques littering the web. Revolutions, self-help and the election – podcasts of the week 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z That is because, she said, Ms. Winfrey and her cadre of self-help experts treated suffering as something beneficial. Beliefs: The Church of Oprah Winfrey and a Theology of Suffering 2011-05-28T00:30:15Z There were college opportunities, there were vocational trades, there were self-help groups. “One of the most barbaric and inhumane aspects of our society”: Shaka Senghor on the horror of solitary confinement 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z A self-help infomercial presented as an inspirational docudrama, "People V. The State of Illusion" is a "bad" movie with a good message. 'People V. The State of Illusion': making case for self-help message 2012-03-15T20:56:05Z It is not a self-help story about telling your significant other your secrets. "The Death of Dick Long" dares you to love the men who love Nickelback 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Freudian-influenced marriage counselors started worrying about “frigid” wives, and magazines and self-help manuals urged women to become receptive to their husband’s sexual needs. Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Mark, who grew up poor, is an accidental and fatuous self-help guru. Book Review: ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ May Be the Novel of the Summer 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Far from the Tree is not a self-help manual, though it would be hard to read it and not count your blessings. Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love by Andrew Solomon – review 2013-02-10T07:00:09Z Sure, the town is prim and smothering, but wouldn’t you rather dance your troubles away than return to that pile of tedious self-help books about how to save a lukewarm relationship? Review: ‘Schmigadoon!’ Has a Song in Its Heart, and Everywhere Else 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z One was a volume of self-help poetry called “Present Moment, Wonderful Moment.” The Bizarre Trial of a Poet in Myanmar 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z His twenty-million-dollar gift to Spelman College, still the largest sum any African-American has bestowed upon a historically black college, was an example of self-help on an epic scale. What Shielded Bill Cosby? 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z If you find that self-help alone isn’t cutting it, try outpatient therapy. Help! How do I stop smoking pot? 2012-10-07T15:00:00Z And, according to new thinking in the self-help biz, it may actually be better for us, too. The Anti-Resolution Revolution: 5 Vows You Can Keep 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Some may conclude from this book that citizen self-help makes government unnecessary, but that would be a misreading. Building Back Better — One Community at a Time 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z It’s a cynic’s self-help book that passes gently through the world by word of mouth. “The Artist’s Way” in an Age of Self-Promotion 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z “I would think that selling a few thousand copies of a self-help book like that would be a reasonable success for a small press like that,” a publisher of a major New York imprint said. Good Luck Finding a Copy of Mark Judge’s “Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk” 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Here she sums up in less than 10 seconds what therapists and self-help books take an age to eke out. Daria: the 90s cartoon that nailed American feminist teenhood 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z He has befriended and kept in touch with many of the people in the book, one of whom created a kind of zine-style self-help guide to wild food that comes with every copy. Lucas Foglia: the photographer in search of off-the-grid Americans 2012-07-13T16:13:18Z These three books present religion-derived self-help from self-destructive delirium; a pressing dilemma faced by any African American artist working in white-majority culture; and a story of tragic inevitability and personal redemption. The personal and political in Rashid Johnson's cubes 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z A college classmate named Mark Mellery, now a self-help guru, has come knocking on his door, asking for assistance with a bizarre note he’s received. Books of The Times: ?Think of a Number,? Crime Story From John Verdon 2010-07-15T21:32:00Z But the rise of various temperance movements disguised as self-help fellowships meant that insomniacs swore off barbiturates, now seen as gateways to addiction, and turned to milder sleep medications, which did not work. T Magazine: Deep Sleep 2012-10-10T22:00:49Z But the film’s depiction of the celebrity-centric self-help sect as a micro-Stalinist police state — dogmatic, autocratic and plagued with internal violence and abuse – is only part of the problem. Lawrence Wright on Scientology’s “broken community,” and the complicity of Tom Cruise and John Travolta 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Our host is the author of the best-selling self-help guide “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.” “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” Reviewed: The Organizational Consultant as Freelance Exorcist 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The main target is the comodified spirituality that has encouraged the thinking that inner peace, a birthright, is just a guru, mantra or self-help book away. 'Small Mouth Sounds': Playwright Bess Wohl's off-Broadway sleeper arrives at the Broad Stage 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z This pull between aggression and sensitivity may have honest intentions, but the outcome was as dubious as a line from a self-help book about learning to love yourself before others. Review: Diane Coburn Bruning and Ashley Bouder Stretch the Rules of Classicism at the Joyce 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z I ended up writing my own self-help book, “How to Hold a Grudge.” Sophie Hannah: By the Book 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Spacey's spaced-out LA therapist takes a sledgehammer to your irony buttons as he dishes out advice to a motley crew of neurotic cliche clients and promotes his latest self-help bestseller, the wryly titled Happiness. Film review: Shrink 2010-06-03T22:25:00Z The book is divided into three sections — “Becoming Me,” “Becoming Us” and “Becoming More” — that sound like the bland stuff of inspirational self-help. In ‘Becoming,’ Michelle Obama Mostly Opts for Empowerment Over Politics 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Making sense of self-help, from the dawn of religion to modern home management. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2014-01-16T15:09:50Z That emphasis on the miraculous quality of his extraordinarily ordinary advice may be his most profound and lasting influence on the self-help industry. ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’: Why the granddaddy of self-help endures 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z As Wright tells it, behind the promise of self-help lay extortion, intimidation and a kind of imprisonment that makes one think of Soviet history. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright – review 2013-01-30T12:00:02Z Sure, it took a little navel gazing and celebrity worship to get there, but maybe that’s what self-help for the selfie generation looks like. Can living like a star produce a happy ending? 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z One of the most borrowed titles is the Arabic self-help book Don't Be Sad, published by the International Islamic Publishing House in Saudi Arabia. A glimpse into Guantánamo Bay's library 2013-05-03T15:38:29Z Although Perry hopes that “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing” will eventually be shelved in the self-help section of bookstores, “Friends” fans will find poignant nuggets in its pages. The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z For a while, the movie is content to poke mild fun at America’s enthusiasm for trendy self-help bromides and computer-age enhancement technology. Review: In ‘Cars 3,’ Lightning McQueen Faces an Existential Crisis 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z As CEO, his trick was a wily concoction of both: self-help and Jesus Christ. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z Everyone, she added in the cheesy vernacular of self-help, “is on their learning journey”. Emma Watson: Star failing to be ‘normal’ in a fantasy world 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Perhaps the reason James remains beloved by so many readers more than a century after his death is that his pragmatism often shaded into self-help. He Questioned the Meaning of Life. William James Answered. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Krznaric’s book “How to Find Fulfilling Work” is an entry in the School of Life, Alain de Botton’s series of self-help books for people who wouldn’t be caught dead in the self-help section. Secret to happiness: “I want this job for a week” 2013-05-01T14:07:00Z Foxhall’s history of migraine, unlike the self-help books, accommodates human complexity without scanting medicine’s contributions to a condition that affects roughly 1 in 7 people on our planet. Review | Migraines have plagued me for years. A new book puts my pain in perspective. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z That’s the blunt assessment of yet another self-help author from abroad who is trying to get Americans, who have an addiction to collecting and storage units, to clean up their acts. Americans are pack rats. Swedes have the solution: ‘Death cleaning.’ 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z It sounds like a cliché because it is a cliché, and more: It's a cottage industry, one that's launched countless afternoon talk show episodes and shelf after shelf of self-help books. Review: Quiet `Hope Springs' has real punch 2012-08-06T23:46:05Z Nor does she want to be referred to as a self-help guru or any other woo-woo spiritual title. Doyle keeps ‘Untamed’ conversation going in journal, podcast 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The Accrington Public Library was a stone-built, fully stocked library, built on the values of an age of self-help and betterment. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z I also talked to a lot of self-help authors. Modern Love: Sometimes It?s Not You, or the Math: Modern Love 2011-09-23T17:39:22Z Loosely inspired by a self-help book, 2012’s What To Expect When You’re Expecting, a broad, fitfully patronising comedy did at least acknowledge that both pregnancy and motherhood come in many forms. From Rosemary's Baby to Bridget Jones: a quick scan of pregnancy on film 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Formatted to entertain, educate and facilitate self-help, these podcasts often uncover hot topics and sensitive issues, from tales of singledom to parenting struggles, and everything in between. Podcasts Inspired by Love and Relationships 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The sooner we accord priests, rabbis and imams the same respect we owe fabulists and self-help gurus, the faster we will progress toward a more just, more humane future. The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z So his friends insisted he take a self-help course to overcome his fears, which at least steeled his nerves for the flight to New York and into the offices of Ralph Lauren. The Lives of the Fashion Designer Lars Nilsson 2010-03-31T21:39:00Z In February 2018, “Girl, Wash Your Face,” a blend of memoir and self-help, was published by Thomas Nelson, a Christian imprint of HarperCollins. Girl, Wash Your Timeline 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Most self-help books are written by Americans of the most sentimental and unctuous sort. In defence of self-help books 2012-05-17T09:30:01Z “There are very few specialists in gambling addiction in Japan, and the number of self-help meetings here is a fraction of that in the US,” she said. Casino project will offer Japan's addicts a new way to lose 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z The result plays a bit like a self-help audiobook, with songs and hallucinations. Review: Could a Long-Gone Antarctic Explorer Be Mr. Right? 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z For Lasch, the rising popularity of therapy and self-help — along with radical feminism, confessional writing, permissive parenting and the designated hitter rule — was itself implicated in the problem. Review: ‘The Selfishness of Others,’ or I’m O.K. — You’re a Narcissist 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z I always said the same thing at this self-help group, and they were very patient with me. ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Today, if you look at many self-help books, the main challenge is to catch the heart of the man who is assumed to not want to get caught. Our new era of hearbreak 2012-06-24T18:15:00Z Can you, for example, imagine Rod Stewart reading a self-help book? Clash of the celebrity memoirs 2012-12-10T17:04:59Z But it is Faux-prah — not her full-bodied self — that greets the thousands of women who pour into these outdoor marketplaces, always situated a short walking distance from where she and her self-help “trailblazers” ultimately speak. Oprah Winfrey Hits the Road With Her 'Life You Want Weekend' Tour 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Others, though, are decidedly strange: He starts calling himself G-Dawg, joins a self-help group for white people ashamed of their race — and begins to identify as a Black man from Africa. A Crop of New Novels About Race and Racism Finds Freedom in Satire 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z The language of self-help is so familiar that Al Franken was able to parody it with a character named Stuart Smalley, who appeared on "Saturday Night Live." Post-Oprah, Americans still hooked on self-help 2011-07-12T21:45:00Z But mostly Leland adds self-help, sprung from a single axiom: “If you want to be happy, learn to think like an old person.” When Growing Old Is a Blessing 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z There is no standard training for breakup coaches; their experience ranges from some time in the self-help aisle to life coaching workshops to decades as a traditional psychotherapist. The breakup coach: Sometimes ice cream and Alanis aren’t enough 2013-05-05T00:00:00Z Soupcon of solace … Chicken Soup for the Soul's self-help recipes will soon be warming hearts quite literally. Chicken Soup for the Soul set to offer literal as well as literary nourishment 2012-08-24T14:51:34Z While the resolution may be receding, something else has emerged from the depths of self-help like a swamp monster to make us feel bad: the in/out list. What's out for 2023? The in/out list 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z I work pretty hard to avoid self-help books. Roxane Gay: By the Book 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Vanzant — the engine of “Iyanla: Fix My Life“ — is a self-help guide and author with a mystical air but a deeply grounded approach. Television Review: ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life,’ on OWN 2012-09-14T23:50:22Z His mother was so alarmed she sent him to a Muslim self-help class, and he soon found another calling. 'Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS' offers brilliant biography of Abu Musab Zarqawi 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Francis wrote a self-help book in 1982 and lent her support to many charities, including Direct Relief, which sends medical supplies to victims of civil unrest, and Angel View, for the physically challenged. Honey from the Forbidden Planet: Remembering Anne Francis (1930-2011) 2011-01-08T14:05:00Z Partly self-help, partly community mobilization, and partly sketches for future system-wide expansion, community wealth-building efforts can be found in virtually every region of the country. Stop-and-frisk, eviscerated 2012-05-29T19:30:00Z Ms. Corman may hate the word “journeys” but her script is not free of self-help jargon. Review: Staging a True Family Nightmare in ‘Accidentally Brave’ 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Every self-help book begins with a view of the problem that it aims to help readers solve. How to Pay for College (and Not Lose Your Shirt) 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z “In a woman’s gynecological self-help group I got to know my body—and myself—better,” the text on the page opposite the photo reads. Abigail Heyman’s Groundbreaking Images of Women’s Lives 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z He turned to yoga and Buddhist-inspired self-help techniques to get through it. HBO Gives Low-Rated ‘Enlightened’ a Second Shot 2013-01-08T22:53:38Z The contradiction at the heart of many self-help books is that you’re supposed to accept yourself more while simultaneously changing to create a better you. Can a Self-Help Book a Month Yield a Year’s Worth of Life Changes? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z It seems a good thing to be doing a self-help book at 43, the age that men are most likely to kill themself. David Shrigley: 'More than anything else, I need to laugh at things' 2012-09-29T23:05:12Z In Wales now, 30,000 self-help books are borrowed every year and three of the 10 most borrowed books in the country are self-help. GPs to prescribe self-help books for mental health problems 2013-01-31T17:42:10Z Mr. Jacobs appreciates the silliness of much self-help writing, and he is happy to add his own. Books of The Times : In ?Drop Dead Healthy,? A. J. Jacobs Gets Relentlessly Fit 2012-04-15T20:58:30Z The Americans are Napoleon Hill, who founded the self-help movement with his positive mental attitude at the turn of the last century, as well as Calvin Coolidge and William Tecumseh Sherman. L.A. Phil chamber players start Next on Grand in here and now 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Ivanka Trump’s 2009 self-help book, “The Trump Card,” opens with an unlikely sentence: “In business, as in life, nothing is ever handed to you.” Ivanka Trump’s Terrible Book Helps Explain the Trump-Family Ethos 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Broadly speaking, Bad Guru is a blend of philosophy and cultural analysis, with a smattering of self-help. A Pop Star Becomes a Guru 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Surely the only self-help advice for this cruel summer in New York is “Oh, Just Go Ahead and Sweat Everything.” Trading Up : In City Heat, Bandannas to the Rescue—Trading Up 2012-08-09T00:07:03Z PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Attorneys for a self-help author convicted in the deaths of three people following an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony are making their case for probation. Self-help author's attorneys argue for probation 2011-11-15T19:16:08Z The early episodes focus on how adherents were drawn in by Nxivm’s superficial resemblance to other self-help philosophies, then the documentary evolves into something of a slow-burn thriller. Review: ‘The Vow’ Follows Nxivm Down Dark, Damaging Paths 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Like nearly all self-help books, “The Swedish Art of Death Cleaning” is mostly common sense. Recipes for a Tidy and Tasty Death 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Instead he seeks to create a more collusive enticement in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, made explicit with the conceit of a self-help guide. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-04-21T06:00:29Z Given their popularity, the self-help sections devoted to silence are destined to grow with even more beautiful books to purchase. Perspective | In a noisy world, books about silence are booming 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Nobody in our house believed in self-help, therapy or self-awareness. My father was always angry with me, but why was he furious when I got a job? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z The best hosts find ways around this, ideally by avoiding C-list guests such as reality show contestants and self-help gurus with little to sell but their fleeting fame. What makes a good chatshow host? 2011-08-05T14:18:53Z Perhaps you don’t need telling that self-help books, the modern-day apotheosis of the quest for happiness, are among the things that fail to make us happy. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z Throughout that time many self-help gurus promoted ideas that were in line with people's everyday experiences about the human mind. Self help: try positive action, not positive thinking 2012-06-30T21:40:52Z The self-help classic reveals four principles to follow for a happier life. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z A self-help book in the style of Andrei Tarkovsky would be hardly more oxymoronic. ‘Telegraph Avenue,’ by Michael Chabon 2012-09-08T00:17:29Z If self-help is about how to do, self-care is about how to not do. When Did Self-Help Become Self-Care? 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to be fun and also exploit the ridiculousness of self-help. Asking for it: "Drag Race" winner Bianca Del Rio has questionable advice for you 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Even Ludwig admits, a touch mournfully, that after reading self-help books, “people tend to quickly forget most of what they have just learned,” and that “no long-term changes occur.” Review | Can a new self-help book cure procrastination? I tried it and here’s what I found. 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z The material documents the evolution of the tweedy middle-aged academic into a drug guru, international outlaw, gubernatorial candidate, computer software designer and progenitor of the Me Decade’s self-absorbed interest in self-help. New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary?s Papers 2011-06-15T23:40:29Z Dr. Bartell has written seven self-help books including four on parenting, and writes a monthly online column for parents on children’s health issues for U.S. Melissa Leifer, Max Bartell 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Along with high-minded journalism came a flood of comedian-led talk shows, pop-culture gabfests, sex and self-help shows, and every niche dive imaginable. Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Raised like me in a mostly secular household and often apart from other Jews, he brought people together to find fellowship, celebrate their heritage, and practice self-help. My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust and were almost forgotten 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z The help he gets is a lurching mixture of NHS and private and seems to involve a blend of psychiatry, psychotherapy and a fair dollop of self-help in the form of yoga and meditation. Underneath the Lemon Tree: A Memoir of Depression and Recovery by Mark Rice-Oxley – review 2012-06-08T21:55:12Z But the self-consciously edgy formulas, and the even-cornier, prescriptive, top-down self-help books that engendered them, don’t necessarily wonder. When Did Self-Help Become Self-Care? 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z The musical follows Finch, a young window-cleaner who follows the advice of the self-help book and rises from the mail room to vice president of advertising at a company. "Harry Potter" star to make Broadway musical debut 2010-04-15T22:41:00Z But the book is more self-hype than self-help, promotional interview than memoir. Shonda Rhimes' 'Year of Yes' puts positive spin on simplistic self-help solution 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z It might be, she suggests to Nona, a place where children could use the methods of the self-help book The Secret, picturing themselves in college so that they’ll eventually get there. Won't Back Down: Maggie Gyllenhaal Burns to Be Erin Brockovich 2012-09-27T18:01:29Z “There is such a craving for quick fixes in general, self-help books, things you will download,” she said. Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One. 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z "The Dark Side of the Light Chasers" spawned a self-help enterprise for Ford. Bestselling self-help author Debbie Ford has died 2013-02-19T04:40:10Z As with most self-help books, it is impossible to live up to the prescriptions for sonic reduction. Perspective | In a noisy world, books about silence are booming 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z As philosophy, self-help and “Star Wars” have taught us, anger is a destructive emotion. ‘Beef’ Review: Mad in America 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Ten minutes at bedtime with an essay collection, biography or self-help book and you immediately begin to nod off. Perspective | When I find fiction too draining, I turn to books about books. They can be as thrilling as a whodunit. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Ages ago, I read somewhere, probably in a self-help book I bought after a nasty breakup, that truly powerful beings don’t need to prove how powerful they are. Whitney Cummings: The First Time I Hung Out With Wolves 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The exhibit — part self-help, part political activism and part fantasy, all threaded with humor — introduces viewers to "The Revolution." 'Made in L.A. 2014': Jennifer Moon continues phoenix rise at Hammer 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z In the book, Lemon traces his move from the court to the pulpit, preaching his own brand of self-help wisdom. Meadowlark Lemon makes a key "SHOT" with new book 2010-12-11T00:57:00Z “I’m not trying to write a self-help book,” the singer and guitarist says early on, but he may have done just that anyway. Audiobooks to Get You Through the Most Distracted of Times 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Fitness guru Richard Simmons and TV self-help host Phil McGraw have claimed that the Enquirer threatened to publish damaging information about them to pressure them to drop lawsuits against the tabloid. Oddly enough, the National Enquirer looks like it acted honorably with Sarah Jessica Parker. 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Evenings were spent poring over the required reading: Jim Collins’ corporate self-help book “Good to Great,” which Chip was obsessed with. Yoga, spinning and a murder: My strange months at Lululemon 2013-12-31T12:47:00Z These are cemented when he stumbles upon a self-help book, The Greatest Salesman in the World, at a friend’s house. Zen and the art of torso maintenance: Matthew McConaughey's guide to life 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s possible Mr. Trump won his children’s allegiance by following the French theory of child rearing, expounded in “Bringing Up Bébé” and other self-help books that recommend strict rules and restrained doses of attention. The Other Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Mara is effectively brittle and then brave, but she’s stuck with being a walking self-help illustration. Review: ‘Captive,’ Based on a Hostage Crisis With a Spiritual Twist 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The title track literally sounds like a session with a self-help psychologist and it's a sure guarantee you'll hear this song blaring at Democratic presidential rallies in 2016. Review: Bon Jovi offers self-help, catchy choruses 2013-03-11T17:42:13Z Others feared being lured into a self-help cult. In ‘Dispatches From Elsewhere,’ Art Imitates Art Imitating Life 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Rubin never uses the term “self-help,” though her books are labeled as such. Gretchen Rubin actually appears to have it all. But is that the kind of happiness guru we want? 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian The increasing popularity of self-help and life-coaching have proved a gift to comedians in recent years, perhaps because, like politicians, self-help gurus can so often sound like parodies already. Edinburgh comedy notebook: spoof self-help gurus have pulling power 2011-08-19T13:55:04Z There was one just below my bedroom window, next to the high-end pet-supply store, specializing in New Age and self-help literature, and there was another one, a biography bookstore, around the corner. Abroad: Do-It-Yourself Culture Thrives Despite Globalism 2010-04-14T17:23:00Z "I'm not at all averse to self-help," he says. Adam Phillips: a life in writing 2012-06-01T21:55:08Z “I started to see how self-help can be dangerous for someone like me,” Power writes. Can a Self-Help Book a Month Yield a Year’s Worth of Life Changes? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Yet good – and great – poetry turns out to be the best self-help available. Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday life chosen by William Sieghart – review 2012-06-09T23:05:36Z Of new and revolutionary diet and self-help books, there is no end. Perspective | To read or reread? New books are alluring, but don’t discount the value of the familiar 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z This is the story of how Sarah went from skeptic to best-selling author of her own self-help series, and the book that played a pivotal role in her transformation. How an anxiety attack changed a skeptic's mind about self-help books 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Although the album is punctuated by spoken-word interludes — bits of poetry, self-help, comedy and tribute — it is designed to flow as a whole, gradually infusing a room like incense or the smells of home cooking. Solange Defies Pop Expectations on ‘When I Get Home’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z In nonfiction, we recommend a contemplative and genial self-help book about time management, as well as two books probing current affairs: one about QAnon, the other about the political era spawned by 9/11. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Not only are there plenty of other stations on American TV that already follow this brief, but it is arguably precisely this kind of soupy self-help that made Winfrey's talkshow look increasingly dated. Oprah Winfrey launches OWN television channel 2010-12-31T12:18:56Z His wisdom on these matters, per the Hollis brand, is almost entirely self-generated: The occasional expert insight comes from other self-help books like “The 5 Love Languages” or business-leader airplane reads. Review | The path to enlightenment — and a happy marriage — the Hollis way 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z In King County the self-help group called the Unemployed Citizens League was especially effective. When the Great Depression hit, county’s citizens rallied 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Then again, how could he not smile during his character’s prison epiphany, which comes after he reads a self-help book called “Compassion and Forgiveness”? Film: Quinton Jackson of ?A-Team,? A Mr. T for Our Times 2010-06-03T19:58:00Z And so How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia was born, a novel that is a self-help book that is a second-person life-story that is an invitation to create. Mohsin Hamid on his enduring love of the second-person narrative 2013-03-22T07:00:02Z Whether he knew it or not, Vonnegut was improvising a self-help manual for psychic pain at a time when many young Americans needed it most. From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z “Looking at the Manitous on a winter walk is worth any self-help book save the Bible,” he once wrote of the offshore Manitou Islands in Lake Michigan. Searching for a Secret Ski Destination? Try Michigan 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z What Lieberstein has made is a self-help manual disguised as a comedy. ‘Song of Back and Neck’ Review: A Painful Comedy About Pain 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z It is a rejoinder to the pressure on literature to serve as self-help, to make us empathetic or better informed, to be useful. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Where his elder forebear was all twisted syntax and ’70s-’80s self-help speak — actualize yourself, you must — the little guy doesn’t speak. Baby Yoda Is Your God Now 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z It is true, there is no shortage of self-help literature for the chronically overwhelmed. Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One. 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z “Ask, ‘What can I do about this?’” says Anne Jones, self-help author. How to be more positive this year: 'Trump makes this much harder' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Tharp, armed with a no-nonsense approach to life, is fine with the phrase “self-help.” Twyla Tharp Wants You to Move 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z In “I Wear the Black Hat,” Klosterman writes of Machiavelli’s signature work that “ ‘The Prince’ can be read like a self-help book for someone who openly aspires to be depraved.” ‘I Wear the Black Hat’: the essential anatomy of a villain 2013-08-28T22:25:51Z Rip It Up delves further into the science of self-help. Self help: try positive action, not positive thinking 2012-06-30T21:40:52Z “Understood as a self-help book, ‘The Price You Pay for College’ represents an extraordinary achievement,” Daniel Markovits writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z The auditory is also engaged, in recordings that emanate from some of the sculptures; they include strains of a Bollywood musical and readings from a self-help book. Art in Review: Molly Lowe: ‘Sorry, Excuse Me, Thank You’ 2014-03-27T20:24:39Z At other times it's like a self-help book. Comedy gold: Simon Amstell's Do Nothing 2012-11-15T12:00:55Z A few years ago, Gretchen Rubin, the best-selling self-help author, pivoted from the happiness racket into the habit business with her seventh book, “Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives.” Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Amir Amirani's moving programme showed what happens when poetry is in the national bloodstream, when it is a bible, a friend, a self-help book. Skip; More Actors' Words; I Come from There; Nightingales and Roses 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z In books, there are plenty of anorexia memoirs now – both celebrity and non – most of which, to be honest, are little more than a mix of food diaries, pop-psychology and self-help. To the Bone confirms there are (almost) no good movies about anorexia 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z So I’m not surprised that there’s been a little flurry of self-help books on basic human decency and what it will do for you. You’re Not Going to Kill Them With Kindness. You’ll Do Just the Opposite. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z She then tries to impose her self-help mantras and plans for bringing world peace on reluctant colleagues and a downer mother played by Diane Ladd, Ms. Dern’s mother in real life. HBO Gives Low-Rated ‘Enlightened’ a Second Shot 2013-01-08T22:53:38Z But there are pungent anecdotes throughout the book, even in the parts when Jones becomes, depressingly, a junkie, and then, more depressingly, an L.A. self-help practitioner into transcendental meditation and spinning. ‘Lonely Boy’ review: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones riffs on an era of theft, drugs and punk 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z There's nothing like a self-help book to make you feel a failure. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z Which shouldn’t be too surprising, when you realise there is a whole industry, literally, a whole self-help industry consisting of earnest books and stripy jumpers and diets, selling us tricks to appear more French. The hidden costs of vanity 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z The fitness guru’s sphere of influence has typically been centered on the body, with some wiggle room for related self-help psychobabble and musical appreciation. This Is Your Brain on Peloton 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Deepak Chopra, the doctor and self-help guru, who turns seventy-three next week, has written more than one book for every year he has been alive. Deepak Chopra Has Never Been Sick 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z “Wonderland” transforms Alice’s surreal wanderings into a contemporary parable about reconnecting with your inner child and other watery truisms of the self-help industrial complex. | 'Wonderland': There?s No Place Like Queens 2011-04-18T02:01:04Z Sure enough, Kiedis drops a doozy on "Happiness Loves Company", a stadium anthem built on self-help mantras, with the line: "Young lovers keep it pumpin' in the streets of LA." Red Hot Chili Peppers: I'm With You ? review 2011-08-27T23:05:44Z The plan is to use a self-help manual. ‘The Wheel’ Review: Songs of Love and Hate 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z A mantra from “Five Star Billionaire,” the self-help book, summons the mood: “Even beautiful things will fade.” Books of The Times: Tash Aw’s ‘Five Star Billionaire’ Captures China’s Changes 2013-08-01T20:48:21Z “You are not disposable; you are invaluable,” she implores them, sounding a little too much like a self-help book. Review: ‘Airline Highway’ Is a Portrait of the Underclass of New Orleans 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Foxhall’s erudite and vivid accounts of migraine spoiled me for other books on the subject, but I wanted to see how self-help books approach migraine. Review | Migraines have plagued me for years. A new book puts my pain in perspective. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Sheila morphs into an economic powerhouse and the very model of a modern self-help guru. New this week: Kevin Hart in ‘Fatherhood, ‘iCarly’ & ‘Luca’ 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Breaking up with a best friend is one of those harrowing experiences that people go through without much assistance from the self-help publishing industry or support groups. “GLOW” wrestles with the particular pain of friendship divorce 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z He wrote practical self-help books and answered phone calls, he painted abstract art and wrote experimental fiction. In Japan, His Disaster Art Saves Lives 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z “In fact, the genre people call self-help literature sounds tautological to me; I read all literature as self-help.” In This Novel, the Stream of Consciousness Is More Like a Whirlpool 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z There is a precedent of sorts in Declan Kiberd's Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece, a self-help volume based on Joyce's celebration of the pleasures of the everyday. James Joyce's Leopold gets his own book for Bloomsday 2013-04-17T14:04:43Z This weekend’s winner took its inspiration from a less likely source: stand-up comic Steve Harvey’s self-help romance book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Think Like a Man Snaps The Hunger Games' Streak 2012-04-22T20:46:05Z "In the age of moral and practical confusions, the self-help book is crying out to be redesigned and rehabilitated." Alain de Botton launches series of 'philosophical' self-help books 2011-04-06T15:59:10Z Following the debate Twitter also became a confessional for people who, like I did, turned to the self-help industry, including Williamson’s writings, and found a measure of comfort in that realm. America's curious political awakening to Marianne Williamson 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z “Mike & Molly” is part love story, part self-help session, and it is not for everyone, meaning it is surely for no one who can quote whole chunks of dialogue from “30 Rock.” Television Review: A Sitcom With More Than Empty Calories 2010-09-19T22:35:00Z The bestselling self-help/travel guide, which sold a phenomenal 10 million copies and made Elizabeth Gilbert a very rich woman, has graced our world for a decade — a milestone no clever publisher would ignore. ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It’: Really? We need to talk. 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z As she keeps building and slapping around the beat, she combines self-help advice and ruthlessness: “Sweat to be a winner,” she advises. The Playlist: Bad Bunny Gives Drake a Spanish Lesson, and 12 More New Songs 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Structured like a self-help tome, the novel is written in the second person, cheekily addressing the reader as "you". Mohsin Hamid 2013-03-26T19:07:18Z Another that I usually abhor are on relationships or self-help, but I’ve really enjoyed Laura Kipnis’s “Against Love” which explores the absurd rules of love and marriage in the West since the 19th century. Simon Sebag Montefiore: By the Book 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The book, Hector and the Search for Happiness - part novel, part self-help manual - was published in 2002. Pegg: 'We have no context for happiness' 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z But from its declarative title to its billowing songs, “Healing Is a Miracle” doesn’t shy away from new age’s self-help signifiers. Julianna Barwick Left Her Ghosts in New York. Then the Healing Began. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z It marries the language of self-help charlatanry to the style of popular cosmology and the no-nonsense authenticity of backyard tinkering. Jennifer Moon's mesmerizing show turns the art world into a punchline 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z As I read, I began thinking about why these poems, aside from the obvious matter of language, are so superior to self-help literature. Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday life chosen by William Sieghart – review 2012-06-09T23:05:36Z Everything about Mr. Ferriss’s book declares: This is not your auntie’s self-help book. Books of The Times: New! Improved! Shape Up Your Life 2011-01-06T18:00:07Z A Little Help Making Lemonade “Breakthrough” is a summer reality show on starring Tony Robbins, the self-help author and motivational speaker. | 'Breakthrough With Tony Robbins': Tony Robbins Applies Positive Thinking to Distressed Lives 2010-07-26T22:26:00Z Far from the indulgent efforts of many of his moonlighting brethren, "Seymour" offers a moving meditation on creativity and the human spirit, a kind of self-help text sans stigma or corniness. In 'Seymour,' Ethan Hawke and Seymour Bernstein as creative odd couple 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z This event bills itself as something akin to the self-help section of a bookstore, “only way funnier, smarter and with booze.” Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z So, what did we learn this year, besides Joel’s penchant for pot, Ricky’s incredible self-help vocabulary, and Delta’s surprising affinity for D.W. The Voice 2013: Harrison Craig an unsurprising winner 2013-06-17T21:33:08Z A recurring motif is a voice-over reading from a self-help book, “Letting Go With Love,” which compares the enabling relative’s plight to a person who repeatedly boards a boat he knows is bound to sink. Comic Performers Play It Dark in Netflix Movies 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z But its insistence that self-help is the best help allows Mr. Cross — now medication free and messianic — to lay responsibility on ourselves. | 'Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead': A Road-Trip Diet 2011-03-31T23:39:39Z He calls it “the consummate American self-help book.” Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z I began to think that something united all those psychologists and philosophers — and even the occasional self-help guru — whose ideas seemed actually to hold water. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z Lucy Simon’s greatest hit as a folk singer, the “Winkin’” song, had a self-help element to it. Lucy Simon, Singer and Broadway Composer, Dies at 82 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z “There’s a lot to worry about. It doesn’t really end,” says Gillen, an artist and designer who hosts a satirical self-help Web series called “Art + Therapy” on the online network Super Deluxe. A new wave of comedians is exploring the anxieties of our Instagram age 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z A contemporary self-help guru like Martha Beck would tell readers to quit judging themselves and embrace the weirdness. Wisdom Dispensed With Slaps and Puns: A Sprightly History of Advice-Giving 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Bookish, contrarian and given to speaking in staccato bursts, this skinny computer geek from North Brunswick, N.J., is like the anti-Anthony Robbins, the strapping self-help star. Why Self-Help Guru James Altucher Only Owns 15 Things 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z It could single-spine-edly replace at least a quarter of the sexual self-help section and the world would be better for it. The truth about female desire: It’s base, animalistic and ravenous 2013-06-02T00:30:00Z During our last session, she suggested I read a recent self-help book and follow the exercises. Perspective | Ask Amy: Worker wonders how to respond to slur 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z Such faith, of course, is a central dynamic in fairy stories, as it is in self-help books and inspirational fiction. ‘Into the Woods,’ Stripped Down by Fiasco Theater 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z And she strives to be inspirational, or at least a good self-help counselor, in “Sometimes,” “Better Me” and the prayerful “Thank You.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-12-20T23:13:07Z The process part gets a bit mired in self-help talk, but the cinematic product transcends the mundane through its setting: the Grand Canyon. The Dance on Camera Festival Turns 50, Embracing Its Niche 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z “That was another turning point in my life. I have a huge collection of self-help books and books on spirituality, stuff like that.” Around the World in a Day With Carmen Electra 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z The language of self-help, especially of the mental health variety, often emphasizes resilience and grit, like we’re mixed martial artists who ought to stand firm after every wallop. Desperately Seeking Hope and Help for Your Nerves? Try Reading ‘Hope and Help for Your Nerves’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z To relax, she closes herself off in her bedroom and listens to self-help podcasts by Wayne Dyer or Jack Canfield while trying out new makeup. Beauty Blogging in Dubai 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Aside from the odd self-help book, the story of the codependent doesn’t share much shelf space with the muscular, gritty stories of addicts themselves. Review | For codependents — yes, many of us are women — a book that feels like a powerful strike back 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z “Ultra Mono” mixes the stridency of Fugazi with blasts of the language of self-help as Talbot sings about faux patriotism disguised as nationalism, class inequality and sexism. Idles Are Throwing a Post-Punk Revolution, and Everyone’s Invited 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Along the way, the self-help gurus explore the city’s cultural offerings, making the mini-series part makeover show, part travelogue. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Queer Eye’ and ‘The Affair’ 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Better than Tony Robbins or a self-help book, Michael Bay's movies are an advanced class on dealing with life when it hands you lemons. Michael Bay life lessons: Stress management 2011-07-13T19:14:00Z But she keeps her sentiments tuneful and directs most of the self-help advice at herself, staying sisterly rather than preachy. Playlist: New Albums by Pretty Lights, India Arie, Thriftstore Masterpiece, Daughn Gibson and Cheyenne Mize 2013-07-05T16:58:42Z In this book, the underrepresented and overlooked world of the codependent emerges from the bargain basement of self-help and shopworn homilies into the realm of love and loathing, birth and death, blood and urine. Review | For codependents — yes, many of us are women — a book that feels like a powerful strike back 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Then, I got into the motivational/self-help genre. Chris Bosh’s Favorite Basketball Writers? Kobe Bryant Makes the List. 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z There are all sorts of very well-intentioned self-help bromides—“Get some exercise,” “Take a time-out”—regarding the best way to manage or think about overwhelming anger. One Year of #MeToo: A Younger Generation’s Remedy for Rage 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z On the second floor of Audrey, the restaurant and wellness complex he plans to open early this summer, workers will be able to take self-help and conflict-resolution classes. The Hard-Knocks Restaurant World Discovers Wellness 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Susan Jeffers, Psychologist and Author, Dies at 74 Susan Jeffers, a psychologist who wrote 18 self-help books, the first of which, “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway,” became an international phenomenon, died on Oct. Susan Jeffers, Psychologist and Self-Help Author, Dies at 74 2012-11-12T05:23:01Z But it also functions as a kind of self-help manual, forcing readers to examine their own longings, failings and assumptions about love. 2010-01-28T07:20:00Z The genial Mr. Foster is well cast as Richard Hoover, a determined optimist who has set aside his dreary white-collar career with the hope of becoming a self-help guru and motivational speaker. | 'Little Miss Sunshine': Taking Dysfunction on a Road Trip 2011-03-08T16:48:24Z His wall drawing “468 · Don’t rain on other people’s parades.” is a platitude taken from the self-help title “Life’s Little Instruction Book.” At LAXArt, boundary-blurring drawing as a form of sculpture 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z He's also released a memoir, "From Pieces to Weight," and a self-help guide co-authored by Robert Greene called "The 50th Law." Rapper 50 Cent working on anti-bullying novel 2011-06-20T12:51:09Z According to the survey, grooming products are commonly given, along with self-help books. Christmas gifts are used to send 'passive-aggressive' messages, survey finds 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The New York Times, for example, couldn’t bring itself to print the actual names of a hit off-Broadway play and a self-help book. Wait, wait — can you say that on air? There’s a debate on cursing at NPR. 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z So this book, it's a design book, yes, but it's more of a self-help book, a mental wellness book that just happens to use design to help you to improve your life. In Bobby Berk's design book "Right at Home" he asks "when was the last time you felt safe? 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z It is saccharine and predigested, presented as self-help as much as a practical how-to guide. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z “Plain Jane” borrows from the annals of generic self-help as freely as it borrows from “What Not to Wear,” though it rejects that series’s snarky criticisms of the inexplicably dressed. | 'Plain Jane': Louise Roe Gives an Ugly Duckling New Feathers on CW 2010-07-27T21:03:00Z “Since 1975, self-help books — nonfiction books that offer advice for behavior modification and make explicit promises for positive change — have doubled as a percentage of all book titles,” Dr. Whelan said. Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z I am doing all the self-help stuff but I am just so sad. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Feeling overwhelmed by the unending pandemic 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Two-thirds of the way into his self-help bestseller, “Get Out of Your Own Way,” Dave Hollis tells a story about how he became a better husband. Review | The path to enlightenment — and a happy marriage — the Hollis way 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z How else to explain the staggering pile of self-help books where Americans are offered the path to a better life via the rituals and outlook of other countries? Guides for Better Living From Around the World 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z There is an off-the-shelf quality to this story, which brushes up against more than a few self-help screenwriting clichés. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Either takeaway from self-help is fine, but instead, Power pingpongs between the two. Can a Self-Help Book a Month Yield a Year’s Worth of Life Changes? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z “This isn’t a self-help book,” she said recently, over the phone from California. Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One. 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The book began dancing gleefully on the New York Times self-help best-seller list almost within minutes of its being published on Jan. 1. On Top of the Happiness Racket 2010-02-26T23:31:00Z Like all good self-help, the formula is simple and the causality is clear. The Moon Juice Prosperity Gospel 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Part of the problem is aesthetic: Ms. Waldman has a tendency to slide into the prefab language of psychotherapy or self-help. Review: ‘A Really Good Day,’ Ayelet Waldman’s Better Living Through LSD 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z But while Amy Smith’s romantic story may be unique, her use of Austen as a self-help manual is part of a much larger trend. Jane on the Brain: Austen Advice-Book Trend Peaks 2012-06-04T17:30:03Z This, I think, is my kind of self-help. ‘Most of us are too busy to be better’: the lazy person's guide to self-improvement 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z A dark comedy set in Topanga Canyon, where See lived for many years, the story builds around misfits, free spirits and the starry-eyed graduates of self-help workshops. Carolyn See, award-winning Southern California writer, dies at 82 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Her memoir’s title suggested she wanted to “settle for more,” a concept she credited self-help guru Dr. Phil with inspiring. Megyn Kelly and NBC News officially sever ties 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The half-hour “Locator” takes place entirely in daylight, in middle-class milieus scattered across the Sun Belt, and shares its DNA with daytime self-help talk shows. Television: ?Runaway Squad? and ?The Locator? Make Hiding Hard 2010-04-02T22:40:00Z In a world where women are sold a constant slew of self-help mantras, one of the joys of watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is seeing a female character mature, rather than fundamentally change. How Crazy Ex-Girlfriend became TV's most surprising feminist comedy 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z While seeking solace in self-help podcasts and the verses of her favorite poets, the protagonist watches as her concerns for herself, for her family and for others start to bleed together. In Her First Adult Novel in 14 Years, Julia Alvarez Travels Home 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z “Fear is temporary, regret is for ever,” goes an old self-help motto, intended to motivate timid souls to push past their anxieties. Will you regret later what you’re doing now? Don’t even think about it | Oliver Burkeman 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z But then you spot the book he's reading: a self-help tome titled "How To Speak Masterful English." Post-Oprah, Americans still hooked on self-help 2011-07-12T21:45:00Z Ms. Winfrey would bring TV baggage, too, including having used her talk show as a platform for self-help panaceas. What Politicians Could Learn from Oprah Winfrey 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Apparently, a prohibitively expensive, celebrity-studded self-help salon isn’t exclusive enough: the very rich can’t have fun without a little class hierarchy. 'Gwyneth glows like a radioactive swan' – my day at the Goop festival 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z She committed to tackling 12 self-help classics over the course of a year and following their advice to the letter. Review | Is there such a thing as too much self-care? One woman found out. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Greg Behrendt is the co-author of the popular self-help relationship book that was turned into a movie, "He's Just Not That Into You." Bumbershoot preview: Comedy lineup 2010-09-03T00:01:00Z “A Mind Unraveled” is inspirational in the true sense of the word rather than in a gimmicky, self-help sort of way. Kurt Eichenwald’s Memoir of a ‘Mind Unraveled’ 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The question shrugs off the banal answers of self-help, designed to make us think transformation is a formula to be mastered in steps, in favor of the toughest love to accept. Heather Havrilesky asks a radical, essential question: “What If This Were Enough?” 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z This is not a mere "self-help" book, but reading it is salutary. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z At times these confessedly selfish and self-involved folks seem to be working up material for a self-help book called “He’s Just Not That Into Thee.” 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z “Girl,” however, tips away from those strengths in favor of self-help bromides broad enough to exclude no one. Maren Morris Is Good for Pop, but Pop Isn’t Good for Her 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z I spoke to her over the phone about six self-help books that she personally recommends. Maria Bamford's favorite self-help books 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Sex therapists and gurus have published dozens of manuals and self-help books with titles like “Sex for Seniors” and “Sex Over 50.” Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z You have to wrap your arms around the whole of life, and – at the risk of sounding like my Las Vegas self-help guru friend – view your missteps as an important part of your journey. 'I was definitely a bit of a tool': Louis Theroux on 25 years of documentary-making 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z It's based on a self-help bestseller, of course, and set in that bitty, crapestry format Valentine's Day made regrettably profitable. What to Expect When You're Expecting – review 2012-05-24T20:45:01Z So many people complain about being addicted to the game that it has spawned self-help pages all over the Internet. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z Laura Heck, 34, of “Marriage Therapy Radio” and Salt Lake City, thinks of podcasts as “the middle ground between self-help, a book and going to couples therapy.” Podcast & Carol & Ted & Alice 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z But the show itself dances in the space between tragedy, comedy, and self-help book—meaning that it’s no surprise that at times it misses a step. “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” is still rough around the edges 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z As evidence of this trend, Smith cites Rhonda Byrne's self-help bestseller, The Secret, which he describes as "meretricious", and from what he quotes of it here, I would say he is being polite. Luck by Ed Smith – review 2013-04-23T09:00:01Z His favorite book is “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” the self-help classic written by Dale Carnegie in 1936. This Preacher Would Be Happy to Share Your Bowl of Açaí 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Seen from this perspective, swathes of the self-help industry’s favorite techniques for achieving happiness and success — from positive thinking to visualizing your goals to “getting motivated” — stand revealed to be suffering from one enormous flaw. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z Most self-help books these days are either about depression, happiness or creative writing. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z Still, the book did end up having a self-help component. Looking for Sexual Healing? 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Yet notwithstanding all of the books, websites, and self-help courses on the topic, there is no grand unified theory of procrastination. Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z Most chapters contain some hokey self-help boilerplate to signpost learning — “I’d conflated being successful with being loved and being happy,” etc. Review | In Will Smith’s memoir, the superstar is self-deprecating but ultimately invincible 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Earlier this spring, they started a $39.99 membership program that includes T-shirts, message boards and other V.I.P. goodies, and will publish an “autobiographical self-help book” later this year. Grisly Murders and Serial Killers? Ooh, Tell Me More 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z The title of the Austrian movie “Therapy for a Vampire” sounds like the setup for a joke or an unlikely self-help book. Review: In ‘Therapy for a Vampire,’ the Count Really Wants to Change 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Founded in the early 20th century, the convent creates slick multimedia marketing campaigns and released a self-help book last year, “Millennial Nuns,” with Tiller Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Living the #ConventLife 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z As for the rest of the self-help volumes on your night table? Self Helpless Books 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z When not riffing on the affectations of contemporary foodie culture, she has sport with the posturing of self-help gurus. ‘Season to Taste,’ by Natalie Young 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z And in addition to her 2010 memoir, she published a self-help book for older women this year. The Quiet Comeback of Margaret Trudeau 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Bridesmaids alumnus Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock star as two law enforcers with enough emotional problems to break the most confident self-help guru. Paul Feig: Hollywood's accidental feminist 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z She says that, like the blog, the book aims to be an antidote to the mostly “first-world, privileged” self-help book scene. Writer Chidera Eggerue on what #SaggyBoobsMatter is really about 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z I was both surprised and disappointed that the editors of the June 6 Summer Reading issue of the Book Review failed to include self-help in their roundup of book genres. Summer Reading, the I.R.S. and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Her book, More Than Enough, is part memoir, part career guide, part self-help journal. Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z “In those moments where she knitted or drew or stitched, Foster was free from the worry of the world’s judgment,” Judith Newman writes in her latest self-help column. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Financial self-help expert Suze Orman tells her she is "broken inside," and urges her to become financially dependent from Prince Andrew. Sarah Ferguson films return from "emotional bankruptcy" 2011-06-09T09:06:22Z There are scads of self-help books on how to succeed, but I've never come across a single one on how to contend with not succeeding – which is more the form for practically everybody, right? Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z It starts out as a glorified self-help program, designed to make recruits more effective communicators and creators. HBO’s ‘Going Clear’ details Scientology’s theater of the surreal 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Wright is scrupulous and straight-faced in describing the self-help philosophy that emerged. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright – review 2013-01-30T12:00:02Z The comedian and former sitcom star—whose “The Steve Harvey Show” lasted for six years on the WB—built his career as a self-help guru on disguising sexism as female empowerment. Steve Harvey has always been bad news for women: Ruining the Miss Universe pageant is just the tip of the iceberg 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z “Many of the most popular self-help books in American history either have a religious inflection or are written, however subtly, from a perspective of faith,” Horowitz says. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z They kicked about principles of “scientifically based and not hokey” self-help, according to Sarah. Date Lab: They ‘nerded out’ over books 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z And something about the image she cultivated seemed to encourage an imperceptible slide from the ideal of self-help to the belief that it was Oprah, ultimately, who would do the helping. Review | The new Oprah exhibit looks like a reward for her $21 million donation. But honestly, she deserves it. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z He said I was destined to write 11 self-help books that would make me famous. Leaving Los Angeles 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z I was born in Manchester and I grew up in a working-class tradition of self-help that included Worker's Extension Lectures and the Mechanics Institute – one of many radical and pioneering Manchester initiatives for uneducated workers. Jeanette Winterson: teaching creative writing 2012-05-18T21:50:01Z There’s also spoken word, weak humor, self-help advice and earnest, rhymed doggerel about hope. Dance Review: Soul Steps and Dance Theater of Ireland - Review 2011-11-23T23:44:41Z I guess that thinking about religious belief might be something that has shaped me but if this book is satirising anything it is just the idea of self-help books. David Shrigley: 'More than anything else, I need to laugh at things' 2012-09-29T23:05:12Z It was the very first self-help book for married couples from a systems perspective and it’s still one of the very few from this perspective. Relationship advice: Forget Venus and Mars 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z Recent policing strategy on skid row rehabilitates few of the neighborhood’s disadvantaged residents but harasses and incarcerates many and disrupts their own self-help efforts. What police are doing right (and wrong) with the homeless in downtown L.A. 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z It is yet another fetchingly designed self-help tome inviting readers to be present in the precious moments in one's life and has nothing to do with keeping or tossing one's figurine collection. Everybody relax: Marie Kondo isn't a fraud. She's simply as worn-out as the rest of us 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z It's so hard to say the right words without it coming across cheesy or self-help. The Strokes: no Spinal Tap 2011-02-27T00:03:00Z She starts reading squishy self-help books and parroting their platitudes. Books of The Times: ?Once Upon a Secret?: Mimi Alford on Her Affair With Kennedy 2012-02-08T22:11:42Z Entire industries — self-help books, fashion magazines, fitness chains, infomercials — are built on assumptions about how women are, what women want, what men want in a woman. Does “The Feminine Mystique” still matter? 2013-02-13T14:00:00Z I was dismayed to note that Lori Gottlieb’s essay largely ignored the hundreds of empirically based self-help books that are currently available. Reading Between the Lines: in the Law, in Therapy, in True Crime 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The book is a hybrid parenting guide and self-help book, on horseback. Ethan Hawke Explains His Thing for Knights 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Oliver snipes at Jasper for being a drunken loser; Jasper eats pie with his hands and harangues Oliver about reading the self-help book he’s somehow acquired. | 'Oliver Parker!': Elizabeth Meriwether?s Dark New Comedy 2010-05-20T22:00:00Z A large percentage of these books are cookbooks, political tracts, self-help books, celebrity memoirs and other genres we don’t even cover. Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer 2012-05-09T17:37:24Z I love reading self-help books; they have helped me in my life. Stop saying you’re sorry: “Women will apologize to inanimate objects for bumping into them” 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z And my husband's like . . . this wasn't really the self-help book that he was thinking of but, it was funny. "Hilariously Infertile": Karen Jeffries on finding the comedy in reproduction 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z The singer has been cast in Think Like a Man, a film adaptation of a self-help book by comedian Steve Harvey. Chris Brown cast in romantic comedy two years after Rihanna assault 2011-07-22T09:58:15Z Eight out of 10 bestsellers in Asian bookshops are self-help books. Tash Aw: a life in writing 2013-03-15T08:00:27Z A. It’s a strange book to classify, but it does get put in the “self-help” section a lot, which seems so strange to me because it’s a book I made while trying to help myself. Jenny Lawson totally gets the coloring book craze. In fact, her new book is one. 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z “Assembly” also offers some tools for living in the contemporary world — many of which overlap with recovery, self-help and wellness communities. Rashaad Newsome Pulls Out All the Stops 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Finally, the websites of Columbia’s Center for Complicated Grief and Cornell’s Center for Research on End-of-Life Care provide assessment, education, self-help and other resources for dealing with grief and PGD. Prolonged grief disorder recognized as official diagnosis. Here’s what to know about chronic mourning. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z While raising her kids in the 1980s, she suffered from “persistent emotional pain” and tried everything to treat it: decades of psychotherapy, yoga, meditation, neurofeedback, self-help workshops. Welcome to the trip of your life: the rise of underground LSD guides 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z So buy self-help books if you’d like — some of the best are genuinely useful. Review: ‘The Vow’ Follows Nxivm Down Dark, Damaging Paths 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z She represents freedom and courage – not for women to "be themselves", as today's self-help books would have it, but to change themselves; hers is the liberation of reinvention. Doris Lessing 2011-03-08T00:05:26Z Now she is writing a self-help book for women with the activist Jennifer Nadel, which Atria Books will publish next March. Duchovny and Anderson: The Literary Files 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Now, in this mashup of memoir, , self-help and philosophy, Sheila Heti has added a bit of story, quite a few blow jobs and some cheeky exclamation marks, and finally made it credible. How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti - review 2013-01-11T08:00:10Z In 2019, she took the idea of an accessible self-help book to one of France’s biggest publishing houses, which expected to sell 20,000 copies. A YouTuber Shoots to Literary Fame in France, Ruffling Feathers 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z It has a whiff of a self-help movement, but adherents say it works. The 2,300-year-old philosophy stoicism has enjoyed a revival of late, including in Silicon Valley 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Anyone wanting to damage their intellectual credentials at a stroke need only do one simple thing: confess they read self-help books. In defence of self-help books 2012-05-17T09:30:01Z Some years ago, the writer India Knight published a self-help book, In Your Prime, in which she discussed the way that in adulthood our lives diverge into two camps: the have-children and the have-nots. I flew to Greece and began solo IVF. Then the world shut down 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z That approach would seem to carry the promise of the kind of lofty self-help literature in the Alain de Botton vein. New in Memoir: Lessons in Falling in Love, and 2 Accounts of Its Horrors 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Oxenberg admits she exposed her daughter early on to a number of searching, self-help experiences — ashrams, gurus, people who claimed to be selling the big answer. Perspective | ‘The Vow’ is a chilling look at a modern cult and a reminder that in 2020, skepticism can save your life 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Cunningly modelled on business self-help books and written in the second person, it's fast, funny and clever: a propulsive, eye-opening read. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z “That writing became self-help in the literal sense, writing to understand myself,” he said. A Fraud? Jonah Lehrer Says His Remorse Is Real 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Still, Power manages to keep her wits about her, maintaining a wry, cheeky style that should appeal to self-help skeptics. Review | Is there such a thing as too much self-care? One woman found out. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z He wrote a financial self-help guide entitled “Bold Money: A New Way to Play the Options Market.” Melvin Van Peebles, godfather of Black cinema, dies at 89 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z He wrote a memoir so unpublishable that it was rewritten as a self-help book; but the true memoir eventually turns up in “Beautiful Ruins,” and it is well worth waiting for. Books of The Times: ‘Beautiful Ruins’ by Jess Walter 2012-06-07T19:21:16Z Perry is the most hamstrung of these writers by the self-help form; her frustration bleeds through every page. Self-help hits rock Botton 2013-05-13T19:58:00Z Tyler Perry doesn't transform the character into an overweight grandmother with a fondness for spouting sub-Oprah self-help psychobabble. Alex Cross: this trailer could seriously make you angry 2012-07-18T14:45:58Z And while it takes on a topic that is central to work-life balance and conversations about well-being, it is not self-help. Time Has Been Codified and Commodified. Jenny Odell Wants to Set It Free 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z What follows is a combination of cultural jeremiad, self-help guide and call to action. ‘Dedicated’ Makes the Case for Choosing Something and Sticking With It 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z She released a single in 2011, “Today Is Your Day” — a self-help ballad that she wrote, she said onstage, “to cheer myself up” — to inaugurate her Las Vegas run. Review: Shania Twain in Concert Recalls Glory Days 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Since I started writing about self-help books, I’ve been forced to out myself — I love them. Can a Self-Help Book a Month Yield a Year’s Worth of Life Changes? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Indeed, it seems surprising that Gillian Anderson, who played Scully on “The X-Files,” would write this quasi self-help book aimed at guiding women “on a path of self-discovery and spiritual awakening.” Gillian Anderson speaks out about equal pay and her book, ‘We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere ’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z In contrast, when Goodwin gets to her section on the four presidents’ emergency leadership, which should be the book’s pièce de résistance, she succumbs to the leadership genre’s vocabulary of self-help bromides and bullet-point banalities. The True Grit of Four American Presidents 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z These episodes — including two- to three-minute “Micro Classes” — are definitely in the category of self-help. Why running is the perfect time for podcasts 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z TOP UK holds weekly self-help groups, often run by former phobics. Crisps, keyboards, pens – how do you treat an unusual phobia? 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z As with most self-help books, the answer might be no. ‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Sebald, a German writer and academic who died in 2001, while offering reflections, both on the contemporary self-help business and cosmetic surgery. Did I lock the back door? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z In this way, the book is not really offensive so much as witlessly derivative, endlessly recapitulating the wisdom of other, canonical self-help and business books — by Stephen Covey, Simon Sinek, Shawn Achor, Adam Grant. Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z I felt a little bewildered by all this aggressive positivity, and it was admittedly tempting to poke fun at the self-help platitudes. At the Wanderlust festival, yoga, hula-hooping and just plain old feeling good The majority of sibling self-help books are aimed at parents who have young children locked in rivalry. The power of six: what I've learned from having five siblings 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Last week, a self-help book called The Second Half of Your Life attracted a flurry of glowing, five-star reviews on Amazon. Online book reviews are fantastic ? trust me 2011-03-07T11:00:01Z On paper, “The Discoverers” sounds like “National Lampoon’s Vacation” crossed with a self-help manual. ‘The Discoverers,’ Directed by Justin Schwarz 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Wilson, whose self-help ruminations began airing on HBO in 2020, has a home plumbing emergency that sends him on a search for New York City’s elusive public bathrooms. ‘How To With John Wilson’ Loves All of You Weirdos 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Much of this writing focuses on self-help for disgruntled individuals, such as Caitlin Moran’s How to Be a Woman, which concentrates on laughing at sexism and having lots of larks. Why Andrea Dworkin is the radical, visionary feminist we need in our terrible times 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Just recently there’s been a downcast selfie highlighting a small bruise that came from running into a pole; some truly terrible poorly photoshopped self-help art and – why not? – a picture of Albert Einstein. The People's Choice Awards: seven things we learned 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “Whether you call it mindfulness, spirituality or self-help, seeking answers is the new pop culture,” Carlos Becil, the chief marketing officer at Coach, wrote in an email. Styling a Sense of Self 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z And so novels don’t usually offer up simple theories about human nature—for those, one must look to self-help books. An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z “Reclaiming Conversation” is best appreciated as a sophisticated self-help book. Sherry Turkle’s ‘Reclaiming Conversation’ 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Manning seems to think that “Is Sex Necessary?” was some kind of self-help book and not a parody by James Thurber and E. B. White. 'When Books Went to War’ by Molly Guptill Manning 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z “We looked at particular genres where these exhortations seem to be particularly prominent: advertising, apps, but also the self-help industry.” Is Confidence the Secret to Success? Not Exactly. 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z This was the self-help cure that, in the 4th century BC, cured the stuttering orator Demosthenes, and launched his career as the greatest public speaker of the ancient Greek world. What makes a great speech? 2011-02-26T00:07:28Z In those years of reading self-help books, did Power turn her life around? Can a Self-Help Book a Month Yield a Year’s Worth of Life Changes? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z It’s a self-help religion, but it’s also a corporation, a brutal and abusive place. Alex Gibney interview: journey into the seductive world of Scientology 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z But there’s a sense that, while it may make Philip feel better to talk, Western self-help doesn’t have any concrete answer for him. ‘The Americans,’ in Its Melancholy Fourth Season, Was ‘Breaking Sad’ 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Our collective fascination with fresh, clean starts has always been integral to the self-help industry and to reality TV in particular — who doesn’t love a makeover? How hoarding and tidying up defined the decade 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z For decades, his volumes of inspirational Cheez-Its have proved irresistible to self-help snackers around the world. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z |
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