Better Self

Transform Burnout into Fuel and Ignite Your Desired Path

Healing Burnout with Astrology and Tarot by Jackie Hope may sound extremely New Age to some folks, but I’ll advise you to remember this title when you’re desperate to find yourself again. Because sometimes burnout creeps up on you and sometimes the only solution is taking an unconventional approach. Burnout…

Monique SnymanAugust 2, 2024

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“Good Grief” Guides the Bereavement Journey, and There’s No Right or Wrong Way

“If you love you will grieve, and that’s just a given,” wrote psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison, one of the several insightful quotes that pepper the gentle bereavement guidebook, Good Grief: A Journey From Lost to Love (Soft Touch Publishing) by Valerie D. Swinton and Fred J. Kirby Jr. Grief may…

Cynthia ConradSeptember 28, 2021

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Science-Based Guide to Understanding and Caring for Curly Hair

For my entire life, I have been known as the “curly-haired one.” My hair has been part of my personality and my biggest identifier. Growing up I was constantly asked to let people touch it, kids who sat behind me in class were always trying to make my hair go…

Kelsey HallJuly 10, 2024

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With This Helpful Guide, You’ll Never Have to Walk on Eggshells

“When did your stomach tighten into knots? When did your face get hot, your chest start pounding or your palms get sweaty? Was it what was said, who said it, how it was said, or who was there to hear it?” Whatever it was, was it causing you to walk…

Jim AlkonNovember 4, 2022

Better Self Nonfiction

“Tripolar:” A Devastating and Inspiring Memoir of Addiction and Mental Illness

How many blows can a fighter take before deciding to throw in the towel? Why does he think he is invincible, picking himself up off the canvas only to be pummeled again and again. Poundings to the midsection. Punches to the head. Until he finally sees what everyone else has…

Jim AlkonJuly 1, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Love Bombing, Manipulation, Deception – You May Be in A Toxic Relationship

For those wondering how to detect if they are in a toxic relationship, psychotherapist, mental health educator and TikTok sensation @recollectedself also known as Jaime Mahler role-plays relationship scenarios that show exactly how toxic relationship conversations evolve. These conversations have gone viral over and over again The road to love…

BookTribSeptember 6, 2023

Better Self Nonfiction

Anxious About Your Child’s Distance-Learning Education? This Handbook Will Help.

One of the more surprising reveals of the pandemic lockdown has been watching movie stars and other celebrities going a little crazy trying to figure out full-time parenting. While I admit to a little schadenfreude over seeing people who never had to lift a finger suddenly be plunged into child…

JeriAnn GellerOctober 20, 2020

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The Right Mindset Makes All the Difference in Achieving Health Goals

Who doesn’t want to be healthy? You’d think that was motivation enough. But it’s so much work! Deprive yourself of foods you love, force yourself to exercise when you’re too tired, try to reduce your stress level (really?). We know it’s all good for us, so it’s no wonder that…

Barbara WilkovJune 29, 2022

Better Self Nonfiction

A Celebration of Life: She Survived to Not Only Tell Her Story, But to Help Others Tell Theirs

She will never forget walking into that setting and seeing GRAY — walls, carpeting, draperies, and folding chairs positioned around gray oblong tables. “Everything looked gray,” says Addario, “even the people.” In her mind, contracting cancer isn’t about dying, it’s about living, “and nobody was living in that room,”…

Carole ClapsMay 18, 2021

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5 Essential Self-Help Guides to Succeed in Daily Life

We’re halfway through 2024 — how are your New Year’s resolutions going? If a chill just ran down your spine at the thought of your long-abandoned goals for the year, worry not. You’re far from the only one who’s had to drop those resolutions in exchange for the regular hustle…

BookTribJune 14, 2024

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Learn to Take Control of Your Brain and “Override” Sabotaging Behaviors

If you’ve ever caught yourself “self-sabotaging” — binging on TV when there’s work to do, overeating when you’re already full, getting angry over something that doesn’t really matter — here’s a possible solution that readers can put into practice almost immediately. In OVERRIDE: Discover Your Brain Type, Why You Do…

Mckenzie TozanOctober 7, 2022

Better Self - Featured Nonfiction

Learn to Turn Adversity into Opportunity from the Man Who Gave Us Chicken Soup for the Soul

Those are nice words to live by, especially if it works and your destiny turns out to be fulfilling and rewarding. People probably view Mark Victor Hansen’s destiny as a successful one, having sold more than half a billion books as co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul. It’s unlikely,…

Jim AlkonSeptember 7, 2022

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

New Book Teaches Decision Making and Inner Workings of the Human Mind

Decisions, decisions, decisions…our lives are filled with them. Some are small like what to make for dinner or which TV show to watch tonight. Even small decisions like these can be difficult to make, but they aren’t likely to impact your life over the long term. Others, however, can actually…

Barbara WilkovMarch 18, 2024

Better Self Nonfiction

A Guide to Finding Community and Support with “My Trans Parent”

There are 1.4 million people in the U.S. who identify as transgender, and then millions more family and friends who are coping/embracing/struggling (check one) with how this defines themselves and their families, and what it means to them. Yet while there are millions affected, how often would you think every…

Jim AlkonOctober 12, 2020

Better Self Book Club Network Nonfiction

“Lost in Ghost Town:” The Scared-Straight Tale of a Rich Boy Hitting Crack-Rock Bottom

Addiction trumps privilege in Carder Stout’s vivid memoir Lost in Ghost Town: A Memoir of Addiction, Redemption, and Hope in Unlikely Places (HCI). Written with excruciating truth and visceral fear, desperation and despair, Stout takes us into the incapacitating stranglehold of addiction and the battle to overcome it. Son of…

K.L. RomoJune 7, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

A Therapist’s Guide to Tackling Addiction and Compulsions

What are you addicted to? Most people would instinctively answer “Nothing!” But if you really think about it, is that the truth? According to psychologist Dr. Carder Stout, we’re all addicts, even if we don’t realize it. Beyond alcohol, drugs and sex — which are most commonly thought of as…

BookTribFebruary 17, 2023

Transform Burnout into Fuel and Ignite Your Desired Path

“Good Grief” Guides the Bereavement Journey, and There’s No Right or Wrong Way

Science-Based Guide to Understanding and Caring for Curly Hair

With This Helpful Guide, You’ll Never Have to Walk on Eggshells

“Tripolar:” A Devastating and Inspiring Memoir of Addiction and Mental Illness

Love Bombing, Manipulation, Deception – You May Be in A Toxic Relationship

Anxious About Your Child’s Distance-Learning Education? This Handbook Will Help.

The Right Mindset Makes All the Difference in Achieving Health Goals

A Celebration of Life: She Survived to Not Only Tell Her Story, But to Help Others Tell Theirs

5 Essential Self-Help Guides to Succeed in Daily Life

Learn to Take Control of Your Brain and “Override” Sabotaging Behaviors

Learn to Turn Adversity into Opportunity from the Man Who Gave Us Chicken Soup for the Soul

New Book Teaches Decision Making and Inner Workings of the Human Mind

A Guide to Finding Community and Support with “My Trans Parent”

“Lost in Ghost Town:” The Scared-Straight Tale of a Rich Boy Hitting Crack-Rock Bottom

A Therapist’s Guide to Tackling Addiction and Compulsions

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