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Is Self-Therapy for You?

If you go to your local bookstore you'll find that the shelves are full of self-help books. The titles, topics, and approaches to self-help are varied and at times confusing and contradicting, and self-therapy is no different. A quick internet search for "self-help books" returns over 3.4 billion results, in fact, CreateWriteNow has many items on this topic! If we look at the definition of self-help we find that it is described as "Self-help consists of doing things yourself to try and solve your own problems without depending on other people".

Where did this all start? Back in 1859, Samuel Smiles wrote a book named Self-Help where he proposed that knowledge was one of the highest human enjoyments. The book became an unexpected sensation and Smile became a bit of a celebrity and sparked an entire industry focused on helping us help ourselves.

With so many resources available simply trying to find the "right" one can cause anxiety, so where do you start? Fortunately, we have an answer.