Like any good, overachieving, people pleasing, approval seeking, psychotherapy patient with rapid cycling bipolar disorder and anxiety, I’ve read a lot of self-help books. Subject matter has ranged ...

When you confess you’re in a mild funk, every so often a confidante will say something like, “It sounds silly, but this self-help book really worked for me.” Your friend might even give you her copy.

As I have spent a good part of the last year in and out of hospitals, ICUs, trauma treatment centers, and eating disorder treatment, I feel like I have read almost every self-help book under the sun.

Thirteen year-old Alita told me she knew there was something wrong with her—something that made her “less than.” She felt that, somehow, she was “marked” and deeply unacceptable—even ugly—inside. She ...

Judith Joseph, MD, created the first research-backed framework for assessing high-functioning depression. Now, the psychiatrist wants Black women take charge of their happiness with it. Her upcoming ...

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 ...

Honesty, friction and realism define books that respect how difficult change really feels, without selling shortcuts or ...

The Bible counters self-love culture’s mantra of independence, and instead it teaches us that we are made whole through utter ...