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

Cultural shifts in 2025 shaped psychology and self-help books that centred confidence, emotional clarity and practical ...

From the 1940s to the ’60s, the Onitsha Market in southeastern Nigeria was the center of a burgeoning movement in self-help literature. Known as Onitsha Market literature, these cheap, locally ...

Author James Clear presents his book, "Atomic Habits" during Workplace Summit, Pennsylvania Conference For Women 2019. "Habits" is one of the best self-help books. Self-help books provide the guidance ...

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

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Many people come to therapy wondering why consuming self-help content isn’t helping them. They ask questions like: “I read more self-help books than anyone I know. It makes me feel inferior because ...

The term “self-help books” doesn’t always inspire confidence. Some people look down on this genre as being poorly written or promising too much. In the sea of self-help titles, it can be easy to pick ...

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

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

This story originally appeared on xoJane.com. I was the kid in high school who agonized over whether I had interacted with the popular girls the “right” way as we passed in the hallway between classes ...