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Self-Help Books Feature Writer: Christine Scivicque

Self help is an exciting nonfiction genre that covers a broad range of topics, all aimed at empowering individuals to improve their lives. Readers find a variety of subjects tackled in the pages of self help books including motivation, career satisfaction, spirituality, health, relationships, creativity, and more.

Whether you’re looking to improve your love life, tap into your artistic potential, discover the true desires of your inner self, or just learn a few tips for finding happiness, you’re in the right place.

Here, you’ll find self help book reviews, recommended reading lists, author profiles, book club discussion questions and much more.

This section is here to support your personal growth and ease your journey of self-discovery. Email me anytime with questions or comments.

Latest articles in Self-Help Books

Book Review: Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert's Spiritual Journey
Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert, is one woman's spiritual journey of self-discovery and God-discovery to find life balance between devotion & pleasure.
Complementary Medicine For Dummies – Book Review
Complementary Medicine For Dummies is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to understanding the different complementary therapies used to heal.
Macrobiotics For Life - Book Review
Macrobiotics For Life is a comprehensive resource which helps readers learn about applying macrobiotic principles to benefit the body, mind and soul.
How To Give Up Shopping by Neradine Tisaj
Tisaj's book, How To Give Up Shopping provides big spenders with helpful guidance on managing money and shopping more thoughtfully.
The F-Factor Diet: Discover the Secret to Permanent Weight Loss
Nutritionist Tanya Zuckerbrot has developed a weight loss diet that works. Based on healthy high fiber foods, it also lowers cholesterol and blood pressure.
The Husbands and Wives Club by Laurie Abraham is Compelling
This non-fiction book focuses on five couples who agree to have their group therapy sessions and their most intimate moments chronicled by a journalist.
Little Girls Can Be Mean Book Review
Dr. Michelle Anthony and Dr. Reyna Lindert have written a book about bullying among girls that provides a strategy for handling any bullying situation.
Self-help and New Age Children's Books
Self-help books are not just for adults anymore. Children's book publishers are venturing into the teen and child self-help demographic with a vengeance.
Eating Disorders For Dummies – Review
Eating Disorders For Dummies is a comprehensive guide, offering recovery information for anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder sufferers.
No Excuses: The Power of Self-Discipline by Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy wrote No Excuses so that others could become better leaders, increase their productivity and become more successful.
Book Review: The Way of Awen – Journey of a Bard
Few writers do more than Kevan Manwaring to inspire people to unlock their creative potential. He now explores the journey bardic initiates must undertake
A List of List-Makers & the Columns to Which They Are Addicted
Lists of things, people, places, memories, preferences come in all shapes and sizes. That's why list-formators may be emotionally balanced. Or not.
Book Review: The Dark Man – The Shadow That Follows Us All
This dark spectre, known also as Hades, Set, Pluto, the Bogeyman, Lucifer and the Devil, has always been with us.
Skill With People, by Les Giblin
Les Giblin's 33-page pamphlet on dealing with people has influenced sales people the world over.
Motivation and Controversy Found In Do It! by Peter McWilliams
The motivational guide Do It! provides self-help and advice on life fulfillment. The authors provide an intriguing story of controversy.
"When A Man You Love Was Abused" by Cecil Murphey Book Review
Subtitled "A Woman's Guide to Helping Him Overcome Childhood Sexual Molestation," Murphey bares his soul to help fellow survivors recover from their pasts.
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Exposes an American Tradition
Fast Food Nation provides a disturbing look at the fast food industry. Author Eric Schlosser exposes the dark side of the all-American meal.
Becoming a Writer - A Classic Bestseller by Dorothea Brande
Brande's tough love approach and elegant prose instill the conviction that she knows how to help writers find the inner writing magic and put it to work.
Book Review – Towards the True Kinship of the Faiths
His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers a message promoting compassion and respect as a way to find peace and harmony amongst the religions of the world.
For Stepmothers Everywhere: A Book Review of Stepmonster
It is estimated that one woman out of every two will marry or move in with a man who has children. Here is a great book for every one of those "one" women.
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