Self Help Archive

Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm - “Women who think they’re going to learn anything from Fifty Shades of Gray are wasting their time. They’d do better to read ‘Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the

Soul and Inspiration: the story of women who climb 20,000-foot mountains in Bolivia and a movie about a thrilling runner - In my review of Thich Nhat Hanh’s book, Being Peace, I wrote about the stressors we're all facing and my personal issues that make them more important to confront. My

Stumbling on Happiness - I was nearing the thrilling conclusion of  “Stumbling on Happiness” when I came across a sentence so brilliant, so subtle, so genuinely funny that I had the experience readers crave

Super Natural Home -

The Art of Flourishing: A Guide to Mindfulness, Self-Care and Love in a Chaotic World - Talk about conflicted! Jeffrey Rubin has been a friend for a decade. Long before he started writing this book, I heard him talk through some of the ideas. I read

The Best DVDs You’ve Never Seen, Just Missed or Almost Forgotten - The animating idea behind HeadButler.com is that there is too much stuff out there, and most of you what hear about the new stuff is hype, and most of the

The Big Sister’s Guide to the World of Work -       The Big Sister's Guide to the World of Work Marcelle DiFalco and Jocelyn Greenky

The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together - The first time I took the elevator to Twyla Tharp’s penthouse was a grey, chilly morning in early April. We sat in her minimalist office that overlooked a terrace that

The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together - The first time I took the elevator to Twyla Tharp’s penthouse was a grey, chilly morning in early April. We sat in her minimalist office that overlooked a terrace that

The Creative Habit - A few years ago, I helped Twyla Tharp with The Collaborative Habit, the sequel to this book. It was a learning experience on several levels, but mostly this: the intensity

The Elements of Style Illustrated - This indispensable guide to writing and grammar was first published in 1957. Many millions have read it.  A great many of them may have even learned a thing or two from it. Now

The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do - Back in the day, Dad taught you how to knot a tie and Mom taught you how to write a thank-you note. Your uncle taught you how to swim; your aunt

The Experts’ Guide to Doing Things Faster -

The Experts’ Guide to Life at Home - The biggest-selling book in the long and distinguished history of HeadButler.com is The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do, by Samantha Ettus. Huh? It's not so

The F Word -

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are - My mother never said, “But what about the extra point questions?” She didn’t have to. School was my way out of our split-level, middle class condition, and that meant fantastic

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are - I'm closing in on THE END of a novel. It's set in the present, but it draws on ancient wisdom. As is my custom, I've read all the classic texts.

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun - I don’t know Gretchen Rubin very well --- we’re Facebook friends, occasional e-mail pals and, once a year or so, we have lunch --- but I would have said she’s

The Marriage Book: Centuries of Advice, Inspiration, and Cautionary Tales from Adam and Eve to Zoloft - The subject of Lisa Grunwald and Stephen Adler’s book is marriage, which explains why it requires 560 pages and weighs 3.7 pounds. Lisa Grunwald was a close friend in my

The Other Side of the Mirror: Marion Woodman’s Legacy of Looking Deeply at Women’s Eating Disorders - GUEST BUTLER LORRAINE KREAHLING is on the planning board of the Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology, a 77-year-old Quaker organization with an interest in Jungian psychology. She has