Did you do everything you planned to do this year? if not, what hindered your progress? Were you overwhelmed at your 9-to-5 and too tired to work on your small business goals? Did you experience ...

It can tell you you’re no good, that it’s all hopeless,” reads one entry, which recently went viral on Instagram. “But ...

Take charge of your wellness with these self-help guides. With easy to use tools and resources, you'll be able to improve your wellness habits and begin noticing a change in your lifestyle that suits ...

Cultural critics and academics have long despised self-help books."How-to writers are to other writers as frogs are to mammals," Dwight MacDonald wrote in his 1954 essay "Howtoism." "Their books are ...

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

The similarities between self-help guides and “anti-racism handbooks” are “eerie, but also unsurprising,” observes Kat Rosenfield at Tablet. Both generally target “the guilt, anxiety and insecurities ...

Peruse the self-help aisle at your local neighborhood bookstore, and you’ll likely find tomes giving you all kinds of advice. Titles that tell us to “let them” or develop “atomic habits” or offer an ...

Are self-help books a waste of money? I’ve written two books which are designed as self-help guides so it won’t be a surprise if I say that I think self-help books can actually be very helpful to ...

Gender stereotypes, once a hallmark of self-help titles, have largely given way to self-deprecating humor and tough love—a course correction that coincides with the genre’s expanded reach and sales.

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted a collective cry for help (and an apparent need to stress-bake) — and publishers have taken notice. Need science-based advice on time management or tips on ...