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Helping Me Help Myself
Beth Lisick
One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone
William Morrow
January 2008
On Sale: January 2, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 0061143960
EAN: 9780061143960
Hardcover
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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 almost twenty years ago. Instead of turning to advice from the abundant pool of local
life coaches, therapists, and healers readily available on
her home turf of northern California, Beth confronts her
fears head-on. She 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 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?
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