{"id":295,"date":"2008-09-10T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=295"},"modified":"2008-09-10T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T15:58:00","slug":"helping-me-help-myself-by-beth-lisick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2008\/09\/helping-me-help-myself-by-beth-lisick.html","title":{"rendered":"Helping Me Help Myself by Beth Lisick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0061143960\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone<\/a> is more of a humor book than a spiritual journey.  Unlike the author of Eat, Pray, Love, Beth Lisick never takes her mission too seriously or tries too hard.  The chapters, each of which is nominally devoted to a self help topic, are mostly humorous accounts of what&#8217;s going on in her life.<\/p>\n<p>She goes to some seminars and meets some of the self-help gurus.  She laughs a bit at their fans.  Sometimes she tries one or two things they recommend, half-heartedly.  Sometimes the things actually work, despite her lack of commitment.  At the end, nothing much seems to have changed except that she&#8217;s tired from working on herself all year long.  Easier to laugh at other people, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Lisick is apparently a humor writer, and taken in that vein this is an entertaining book, but it leaves me longing for what it could have been.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepavlina.com\/\" target=\"new\">Steve Pavlina<\/a> was more what I was looking for, though I don&#8217;t always agree with his emphasis.  He is at least really trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone is more of a humor book than a spiritual journey. Unlike the author of Eat, Pray, Love, Beth Lisick never takes her mission too seriously or tries too hard. The chapters, each of which is nominally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorcomics","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}