Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.
Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.
I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.
In the morning, I try to read self-help books and books on meditation.
Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.
While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.
My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines, and books of all kinds.
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.
The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.
I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.
The most important part of my mental self-care is knowing who to call for what kinds of help.
I was inspired by self-help books.
I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.
The one genre I'm not really into: self-help books.