Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone

Fiction Satire

Author: Beth Lisick

Grappling with her lifelong phobia of anything slick, cheesy, or remotely claiming to provide self-empowerment, Beth Lisick wakes up on New Year’s Day 2006 with an unprecedented feeling. She is finally able to admit to herself that she’s grown tired of embracing the same old set of nagging problems year after year. She has no savings account. Her house feels unorganized an….Read More

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