Self Help Stopped Helping Me? My Problem with Self Help

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The constant chase for more information became exhausting.

I’d like to start by saying I am an avid advocate for self-help consumption when it’s coming from the right place, however, for me, my relationship to self-help became unhealthy. Maybe I read too many psychology-today articles, too many books, or listened to too many podcasts. Maybe the constant chase for someone outside of myself to reassure me that I was a good, sane person was actually wearing me down.

In fact, that was exactly the case.

You see, whenever we place our worth in the hands of something external, we are destined to self-abandon. I had become so reliant on someone else to have all the answers, I lost my ability to find them myself. A day wasn’t a good day unless I’d set time aside for self-help and when I didn’t, I felt like a failure. How could I not put time aside for something so important as bettering myself? Did I not want to get better?

What did I even mean by getting better, anyway?

My approach to self-help was flawed. I found self-help in a time of distress, confusion, and anguish, and despite vast improvements, I was being held…