Help Me
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $26.99
Publisher Description
A hilarious and heartwarming rampage through the world of self-care
Marianne Power was a self-help junkie. For years she lined her bookshelves with dog-eared copies of definitive guide after definitive guide on how to live your best life. Yet one day she woke up to find that the life she dreamed of and the life she was living were not miles but continents apart. So she set out to make a change. Or, actually, to make every change.
Marianne decided to finally find out if her elusive perfect life—the one without debt, anxiety, hangovers or Netflix marathons, the one where she healthily bounced around town with perfect teeth to meet the cashmere-sweater-wearing man of her dreams—lay in the pages of those books. So for a year she vowed to test a book a month, following its advice to the letter, taking the surest road she knew to a perfect Marianne.
As her year-long plan turned into a demented roller coaster where everything she knew was turned upside down, she found herself confronted with a different question: Self-help can change your life, but is it for the better?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Despite half-heartedly skimming self-help guides for years, British journalist Marianne Power realized she wasn’t living her best life. So over the course of one year, she decided to follow—we mean really, really follow—self-help classics like The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The Secret to see if these books could actually transform her life. Power’s self-deprecating and candid approach to her experiences made us feel like we were sitting on the couch together while she shared her story. Her curiosity and positivity drives home a simple but useful life lesson: We really need to stop being so hard on ourselves.
