Funny Self Help

Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes - having meltdowns, getting addicted to things, or shutting down completely at the worst possible moments. Your brain knows it's not good to do these things, but it can't help it sometimes - especially if it's obsessing about trauma it can't overcome. That's where this life-changing book comes in. With humor, patience, science, and lots of good-ole swearing, Dr. Faith explains what's going on in your skull, and talks you through the process of retraining your brain to respond appropriately....

What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out. With the help of various extrovert mentors, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to strangers, perform stand-up comedy, host a dinner party, travel alone, make friends on the road, and much, much worse) to explore whether living like an extrovert can teach her lessons that might improve the quality of her life.

You’ve put off reading this long enough. But that’s okay—because I’ll Do It Later: The Ultimate Procrastinator’s Survival Guide isn’t here to shame you. It’s here to set you free. Forget what productivity gurus and morning-routine influencers tell you. Procrastination isn’t a curse—it’s a secret weapon, and this book will show you how to use it. Inside, you’ll discover the thrilling rush of last-minute brilliance, the power of looking busy while doing absolutely nothing, and why confidence always beats competence. You’ll learn how to master the illusion of ...

Make the most of the rest of your life! You’ve just retired. It’s a huge life change! How do you make the transition to post-employment? This inspirational collection of wisdom and witticisms, offering insights, experience, and encouragement, is an entertaining guide to having a purposeful and fulfilling retirement. It's a comprehensive look at the day-to-day retirement experience, exploring what to expect when you retire. With real-time advice to motivate and maintain your happiness as you move into your new post-employment lifestyle, you will discover how to: Understand the process of...

Love, Laugh, Lakshmi is a sparkling blend of romance, humor, and spiritual awakening that follows Claire, a young woman on a mission to find love—no matter the cost. Armed with a chaotic sense of adventure, a stubborn heart, and a tendency to make all the wrong choices, Claire discovers a life-changing ally in Lakshmi, the goddess of abundance. In an unexpected twist of fate, Lakshmi appears to Claire—not as a distant deity, but as a beautiful, invisible friend who can only be seen by those who will never cross Claire’s path again. As Claire navigates the ups and downs of dating ...

In a world where scrolling has become second nature and "likes" dictate our self-worth, Disconnect to Reconnect offers a lifeline to those drowning in the digital noise. This transformative self-help book is your guide to breaking free from the endless cycle of social media addiction and rediscovering the joy of authentic living. Through practical strategies, heartfelt insights, and actionable steps, you’ll learn how to silence the constant ping of notifications, reclaim your time, and rebuild meaningful connections—both with yourself and the people who matter most. Whether you’re ...

How to Be Poor and Stay Broke for the Rest of Your Damn Life! A Satirical Self-Help Classic for Anyone Deep in Debt, Denial, or Designer Shoes They Can’t Afford What if everything you’ve ever learned about money was true... and also the reason you’re broke? Welcome to the anti-guidebook you didn’t know you needed — a hilariously raw, brutally honest, and painfully accurate parody of financial failure. Whether you’re living paycheck-to-Thursday, ghosting your landlord, or spiritually allergic to Excel spreadsheets, this book will validate your worst decisions and nudge you (...

The world has gone overboard with toxic positivity. Every time we scroll through social media, watch a talk show, or browse the latest self-help books, we're inundated with feel-good messages that oversimplify life’s challenges. It’s time to get real. It’s time to embrace imperfection and humanity instead of chasing unattainable ideals. This book takes a satirical and rational approach to debunking the endless stream of unrealistic motivational messages and memes we’re bombarded with daily. Rational Responses to Motivational Memes and Other Positive Bullsh*t will enlighten you with ...

Are you tired of feeling like a gym douchebag? Do you want to cultivate a more mindful, respectful approach to your workouts and fitness journey? Look no further than 30 Days to Stop Being a Gym Douchebag. This comprehensive workbook offers a practical and effective mindfulness program designed to help you transform your gym habits and become a more mindful, respectful member of your fitness community. With 30 unique mindfulness exercises, each accompanied by a corresponding hashtag that allows you to connect with others and share your insights online, this workbook provides a step-by-step ...

The Five Wishes Series is five hot and hilarious novellas about wishes that go terribly wrong…fortunately. Each novella is roughly 100 pages with NO cliffhanger. Five Wishes...A happy ending is just a coin toss away.

Welcome to the kind approach to weight loss. This is different from other weight loss books. It's packed with stories about how other people lost weight, along with small tips that lead to subtle mind changes and big success. "This book works. You will lose weight and feel so much better about yourself." Daily Mail "A warm, tender, friendly book that helped me lose 20lbs..." Heath & Fitness magazine The book stars Mary Brown - the heroine of the Mary Brown series of novels. She's funny, gorgeous and bonkers, and when the series starts, she's seriously overweight. She heads for Fat Club and ...

30 Days to Overcome a Shitty Job is a mindfulness workbook designed to help you cultivate a more positive and fulfilling work experience. Through a 30-day program that combines mindfulness techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy, and self-reflection, you'll learn to identify and challenge negative thought patterns, improve communication with coworkers and bosses, and develop a greater sense of self-awareness and self-worth. This workbook is part of a series of mindfulness workbooks, each designed to help you cultivate different areas of your life. While each workbook focuses on a specific ...

Tired of saccharine self-help advice and relentless positivity? Enter Granny Grimshaw Sourwood, the world-weary, hilariously curmudgeonly anti-guru you never knew you needed. In Granny Grimshaw Sourwood’s Guide to Misery for Others, the inimitable Granny reluctantly shares her hard-won 'wisdom' – a lifetime's worth of cynical strategies for navigating the modern world with minimal effort and maximum personal comfort. Forget finding your bliss; Granny teaches you the practical arts of: Tolerating People: Master relationships by minimizing annoyance and perfecting the art of selective ...

We’ve all met them—the self-declared gurus, the self-taught “experts,” the confidently oblivious office heroes, and the life coaches whose biggest accomplishment is remembering their Instagram password. In I Have No Idea What I’m Doing, we shine a painfully bright spotlight on twenty gloriously unqualified characters who charge boldly into the world, armed with buzzwords, blind faith, and absolutely no clue. From clueless consultants to motivational speakers who can’t find the stage, this book celebrates the gloriously chaotic people who remind us all that sometimes the only ...

Pulling Weeds and Patching Life: Confessions from a Crooked Garden What do tangled hoses, runaway chickens, and zucchini the size of toddlers have in common? Apparently—your emotional wellbeing. In this laugh-out-loud and deeply relatable collection of essays, author and accidental philosopher Debbie Danielsen digs into the messy joy of tending both garden beds and soul wounds. With dirt under her nails and humor in her heart, she explores how compost can teach you about grief, mint about boundaries, and why talking to your tomatoes isn’t all that weird (especially if they talk back). ...

Walking Chickens in the Rain: Embracing the Chaos of Life is a wildly relatable, laugh-out-loud, heartwarming collection of essays for anyone who’s ever tried to hold it all together while everything—chickens included—ran wildly off-script. With wit, warmth, and muddy boots, Annie Rowen invites you into a life less filtered, full of flying feathers, sideways plans, and accidental wisdom. Whether she’s chasing a hen across the driveway in slippers or finding meaning in the cluck of an unimpressed bird, Annie reminds us that life doesn’t have to be tidy to be beautiful. This is not ...

You’ve read the tips. You’ve tried the teas. You’ve stared at the ceiling like it owed you money. Still wide awake? If you’re exhausted, frustrated, and wondering if you’ll ever sleep like a normal human again… I get it. I’ve been there. And I’m here to help. I’m not a doctor. I’m not a wellness guru. I’m a rogue librarian—equal parts sleep-deprived researcher, caffeine survivor, and curious human—who went down the rabbit hole of sleep science when nothing else worked. This book is the result of that deep dive. It’s the guide I wish I had years ago. The Rogue ...

Are you drowning in clutter and treasured keepsakes but can’t bear to part with any of it? Then enlist Maisie Messington—a creative clutterbug—to lead your decluttering crusade. Join Maisie and her sidekick, Dusty Hoover, a vintage vacuum who fancies himself a sports announcer, as they navigate the labyrinth of hoard. From crafting your unique “clutter identity” to curating collections that scream “artfully organized chaos,” you’ll learn to laugh at life’s little mess-ups while embracing your inner pack rat. It’s not just about the mess; Maisie’s journey is packed with...

The Best Self-Help Book You'll Never Need to Read (Because Buying It Counts as Reading It*) Ever wondered why every life-changing revelation comes in exactly seven steps? Or why your morning routine isn't transformative enough unless it involves pre-dawn headstands and astronomically priced green juice? In this wickedly observant satire, our cheerfully delusional narrator guides you through the art of becoming a self-help guru - without all that messy business of actually achieving anything first. From creating color-coded spreadsheets to track your emotional growth (because feelings need ...

Crash Test is a brutally honest, darkly funny book about what happens when your life doesn’t collapse all at once—but quietly buckles under pressure. No bounce-backs. No five-step plans. Just the anatomy of failure told in short, punchy chapters that read like survival notes found in a glove compartment after the crash. Written for the smart, disillusioned outsider—overachievers who quietly cracked, consultants who forgot what they believe, founders who got tired—Crash Test offers no clean redemption arc. Instead, it tells the truth about what it feels like to fall apart when you're...