Help me! : one woman's quest to find out if self-help really can change your life / Marianne Power.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Power, Marianne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Success--Psychological aspects.

Success.

Self-acceptance in women.

Character.

Self-help Techniques.

Local Subjects:

Success--Psychological aspects.

Self-acceptance in women.

Character.

Self-help Techniques.

Physical Description:

xv, 364 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

One woman's quest to find out if self-help really can change your life

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, 2018.

Summary:

For years Journalist Marianne Power lined her bookshelves with dog-eared copies of definitive guides on how to live your best life, dipping in and out of self-help books when she needed them most. Then, one day, she woke up to find that the life she hoped for and the life she was living were worlds apart--and she set out to make some big changes. Marianne decided to finally find out if her elusive "perfect existence"--the one without debt, anxiety, or hangover Netflix marathons, the one where she healthily bounced around town and met the cashmere-sweater-wearing man of her dreams--really did lie in the pages of our best known and acclaimed self help books. She vowed to test a book a month for one year, following its advice to the letter, taking what she hoped would be the surest path to a flawless new her. But as the months passed and Marianne's reality was turned upside down, she found herself confronted with a different question: Self-help can change your life, but is it for the better?With humor, audacity, disarming candor and unassuming wisdom, in Help Me Marianne Power plumbs the trials and tests of being a modern woman in a "have it all" culture, and what it really means to be our very best selves.

For years Power dipped in and out of self-help books when she needed them most. One day, she accepted that the life she hoped for and the life she was living were worlds apart-- and she set out to make some big changes. Did her elusive "perfect existence" really did lie in the pages of our best known and acclaimed self help books? She tested a book a month for one year, following its advice to the letter, taking what she hoped would be the surest path to a flawless new her. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

The life-changing hangover

Feel the fear and do it anyway, by Susan Jeffers

Money, a love story, by Kate Northrup

The secret, by Rhonda Byrne

Rejection therapy, with Jason Comely

Rejection therapy, take two

F**k it: the ultimate spiritual way, by John C. Parkin

The F**k it fallout

Unleash the power within, with Tony Robbins

Perfect me: the 10-day Tony challenge

Broke

Angels, with Doreen Virtue

Sick

The 7 habits of highly effective people, by Stephen R. Covey

Depressed

The power of now, by Eckhart Tolle

Get the guy, by Matthew Hussey

Get a husband?

Daring greatly, by Brené Brown

You can heal your life, by Louise Hay

So does self help, well, help?

Notes:

"First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780802129062

0802129064

OCLC:

1077573647