Self-Help

Anne-Laure Le Cunff wants you to stop setting goals. Or, more precisely, she wants you to reconsider why you set them, how you pursue them, and what happens to you when they fail. In Tiny Experiments, the neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and Ness Labs founder makes a persuasive case that our collective obsession with linear goal-setting is…

Jes Baker’s Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living is exactly what it says it is: a direct, funny, and sometimes infuriating guide to inhabiting a fat body in a culture that has dedicated enormous institutional energy to making fat people feel their bodies are problems to be solved. Baker,…

Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore is a compassionate and profoundly wise guide to grief that honors the full weight of loss while offering genuine support to those who are suffering. About the Book Joanne Cacciatore is a grief counselor, researcher, and bereaved mother whose work has centered on traumatic loss for more than two…

Summary David Treleaven’s Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing, published in 2018 by W. W. Norton and Company, addresses a problem that had been quietly accumulating in mindfulness communities for years: the standard instruction to turn attention inward, to stay with difficult sensations, and to observe the mind without judgment can be actively…

Summary Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who one day finds herself devastated by a sudden breakup and, on the advice of a colleague, sits down on the other side of the couch. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone tracks what happens next: her sessions with a therapist named Wendell unfold alongside the stories of four…

Note to Self by Connor Franta is an intimate and disarmingly honest collection of personal essays and reflections from one of YouTube’s most beloved creators — a young man writing with courage and vulnerability about identity, mental health, creativity, and the strange experience of growing up in public. About the Book Connor Franta rose to…

Tim Ferriss published The 4-Hour Workweek in 2007, and it became one of the defining books of the early remote-work and life-hacking movements. Its argument is that the goal of working hard for forty years in order to retire is obsolete — that the tools of automation, outsourcing, and remote work allow motivated people to…