Ellen Hendriksen’s chatty, accessible How to Be Enough shows how to quit being your own toughest critic, and is a great addition to the self-help bookshelf.
Alishia McCullough’s groundbreaking Reclaiming the Black Body takes a sharp aim at diet culture, providing a much-needed foil to the misinformation and stigma about fat people and a deeply insightful guide for women of color struggling with body image.
Handling even serious subjects with a touch of sass, Tiny Pep Talks feels like an afternoon spent with your favorite vodka aunty who’s always had your best interests at heart.
How to Winter is a cozy field guide that will show you how to survive and flourish when days shorten and temperatures drop.
Much more fun than working with the IRS, Ximena Vengoechea’s Life Audit encourages readers to steer their days in the right direction.
Social media sensation Willie Greene has compiled a collection of pithy advice that acts as a pep pill for the soul.
Oliver Burkeman flies in the face of generations of self-help books, inviting readers to let go of their desire for control and get off the hamster wheel of endless to-do lists and TBR stacks.
In Shame on You, Melissa Petro invites us to flush shame into the light and challenge its control over our lives.
In Rewire, neuroscientist Nicole Vignola provides a remarkable toolkit rife with practical strategies and tips for self-improvement.
In Rewire, neuroscientist Nicole Vignola provides a remarkable toolkit rife with practical strategies and tips for self-improvement.
Always a Sibling braids stories, data and the author’s own experience with loss to provide a rare guide to mourning a sibling’s death.
Kara Loewentheil offers a feminist take on self-help in the engaging, straightforward Take Back Your Brain.
Michael Norton’s fascinating The Ritual Effect encourages us to experiment with, explore and discover rituals to help transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Kate Schapira offers a guide to transforming climate angst into collective action in her inspiring Lessons From the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth.
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