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

Lisick, Beth

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ISBN 10 : 0061710733 ISBN 13 : 9780061710735

Editeur : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2009

Synopsis

The first step to getting help is admitting you have a problem, but what if your problem is with self-help? 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 and chaotic. She and her husband never hang out together. The last time she exercised regularly was as a member of her high school track team eighteen years ago.Beth consults the multimillion-dollar-earning pros and national experts, not only reading their bestselling books, but also attending their seminars and classes. In Chicago, she gets proactive firsthand with "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". In Atlanta, she tries to get a handle on exactly why 'women are from Venus,' and in a highly comedic bout on the high seas of the Caribbean, she gamely sweats to the oldies on a weeklong Cruise to Lose with Richard Simmons. Throughout this yearlong experiment, Beth tries extremely hard to maintain her wry sense of humor and easygoing nature, even as she starts to fall prey to some of the experts' ideas; ideas she thought she'd spent her whole life rejecting. Beth doesn't think of herself as the typical self-help victim. But is she?

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Lisick has created a hilarious, knowing tale of a year of willing ridiculousness.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“A witty, disarmingly earnest account of the year [Lisick] spent test-driving renowned self-help franchises.” (Entertainment Weekly)

not only hilarious but enlightening... Readers will be inspired: If a woman in a banana suit can clean her closet and pay off her credit card debt, surely you can, too.” (People)

“sweetly neurotic, funny and occasionally insightful.” (Los Angeles Times)

“wildly funny” and “a cross between David Sedaris and Susan Orlean.” (Seattle Times)

“Beth Lisick’s latest book is a wildly fun read that falls somewhere in between memoir and a Cliffs Notes guide to the self-help genre.” (Bust Magazine)

“A delightful, Plimptonesque exercise in immersive journalism...sharp, irreverent and endearingly screwed-up.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Beth Lisick has had a lifelong phobia of anything slick, cheesy, or that remotely claims to provide self-empowerment. But on New Year's Day 2006, she wakes up finally able to admit that something has to change. Determined to confront her fears head-on, Beth sets out to fix her life by consulting the multimillion-dollar-earning experts. In Chicago, she gets proactive with The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. In Atlanta, she struggles to understand why "women are from Venus." She gamely sweats to the oldies on a weeklong Cruise to Lose with Richard Simmons on the high seas of the Caribbean. Throughout this yearlong experiment, Beth tries extremely hard to maintain her wry sense of humor and easygoing nature, even as she starts to fall prey to some of the experts' ideas—ideas she thought she'd spent her whole life rejecting.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061710733
• ISBN 13: 9780061710735
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288