The start of a new year is a natural time to take stock. Everything comes bubbling to the surface. Is there something you’ve always wanted to do but held yourself back from? Is there an area of your ...

It is easy to dismiss self-help books and those who read them. But not only do we need serious self-help, we must also take self-help more seriously. Valued at $11 billion worldwide, self-help is a ...

The Ancient Greek historian Plutarch is known for his incisive essays in Moralia, a collection that reads like a modern-day ...

For anyone tired of turning life into a performance review, these five books offer a wiser route to growth through rest, ...

Self-improvement starts with simple changes you can easily implement in your life. Trying to make too many changes all at once is unlikely to be sustainable. When it comes to self-improvement, a big ...

February is a month to celebrate love, but what about centering self-love by bettering yourself personally or professionally? If being better to yourself was somewhere on your New Year’s resolutions, ...

And so we will change. We will resolve that with the turn of a calendar page we will make a new start, form a better version of ourselves, a healthier one, one who wakes at dawn and ingests hot lemon ...

Self-help books are a mainstay of the non-fiction market. According to a 2022 study by BookNet Canada, self-help titles account for 17 per cent of non-fiction book sales. Some of these books can go on ...

I was 23 when I read my first self-help book. I had just graduated and was in a job I hated. I was lost, scared and moaning about my lot to a friend when she fished out a copy of Feel the Fear and Do ...

Are you up for some psychologically helpful summer reading? It's not surprising that a well-chosen book would aid self-improvement in the general population. But meta-analyses also report ...