A review by kllandwehr
Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone by Beth Lisick

4.0

Beth Lisick's life stresses me out, but her efforts to get things in order amused me. She and her husband (and child) seem to be living a rather hand-to-mouth existence, filled with chaos and confusion. Her humorous yet sincere efforts to explore different self-improvement approaches was strangely inspiring. I have no desire to read any of these books (okay, I've already read one, but I'm done now. And I did have my own equally nice encounter with Richard Simmons.), but I understand her desire to approach life differently and to try, occasionally, to quiet the cynical snarky voice inside many of us. But I'm glad she didn't completely silence it, because it was funny.