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

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

A few common themes echo throughout forthcoming self-help titles: attention is a limited resource, there’s value in a curious mindset, and kindness toward oneself can be as crucial as kindness toward ...

You’d have to be living completely off the grid not to know how crazy things are right now. Civil rights rollbacks, a struggling economy and a democracy that could be teetering on the edge of collapse ...

To understand modern self-help books, open “Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm”. The sequel to “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”—and no doubt the prequel to ...

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

In the quiet moments when your mind drifts—about 30 to 50 percent of waking hours—the real epiphanies strike. Not when highlighting passages in a self-help book or diligently absorbing advice. Change ...

When I was in seventh grade, I read Jen Sincero’s “You Are A Badass,” an extremely popular self-help book at the front of every bookstore in 2013. Part of the appeal was a friend’s insistence that it ...

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