"Self Help" Blogs & Blog Posts

Access to mental health care in the U.S. is riddled with barriers, including shortages of mental health care providers. These concerns are not new, and are staggering when you consider that 53 million adults in the U.S., or 21% of the population, had...

If you have a big idea the world needs to read about, you can write a book—but the publishing world is hard to break into and tricky to navigate. What does an agent do? What is a query letter? Do you have to know someone who knows someone to get an...

These gentlemen were very lucky that no one we know of was hurt slamming on their brakes for an unexpected speed bump that wasn't there. I find it to be a miracle that there are not more accidents and deaths on public roads every day. — Rea...

Writer Miles Klee wrote about how he stopped taking his phone into the bathroom and it made him "a new man." "Jokes about being addicted to the internet are one thing. This behavior, though normalized, still disturbed me. At home, I could easily&...

We’re learning how to take our anxiety down a notch this week with help from cognitive behavioral experts Dr. Elena Welsh and Dr. David Burns. Listen to hear these two experts give tips on how to tame your anxiety using specific CBT methods, why it...

“What if your deepest fears and wounds were the key to living a turned on, passionate life, sharing your gifts with the world, and having mind-blowing orgasms along the way?” reads the back of Alexandra Roxo’s debut book, Fuck Like a Goddess. I...

The first self-described self-help book was published in 1859. The author's name, improbably, was Samuel Smiles; the title, even more improbably, was Self-Help. A distillation of lessons from the lives of famous people who had pulled themselves up by...