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who knows self-help books?

  • 15-11-2010 8:22pm
    #1
    suckmyloli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭


    Hi,

    not sure if this is the correct place,apologies if not. I'm looking for a self-help book aimed at young adults (18-28 or so) to help them transition into responsible adults? I've googled it but finding it hard to find books aimed at adults who want to mature, rather than teenagers transitioning to legal adults. Any adivse would be very helpful.

    Cheers!!


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  • #2
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    I think Geoff Thompson is good.

    But before you buy anything do a google search.
    He has lots of free articles around the place


  • #3
    yaya*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭yaya*


    Maybe "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" by Steven Covey (I think that's his name)?


  • #4
    honru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭honru


    yaya* wrote: »
    Maybe "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" by Steven Covey (I think that's his name)?

    Never read that book... not going to write it off but you could just skip to "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" which I highly recommend. Must have been 18 or 19 when I read that for the first time.


  • #5
    Elle Collins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Elle Collins


    'The Road Less Travelled' by Scott Peck is a great great book.


  • #6
    suckmyloli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭suckmyloli


    Thanks very much everyone I'll deffinitely look into it :)


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  • #7
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Hi OP, its great that you are interested in this so young, i found self help books very useful i didnt have anyone in my life who ever spoke about emotional intelligence and if anyone every suffered any depression it was really frowned upon in my family as a weakness, i used self help books to really get answers, the first book i ever bought was FEAL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY SUSAN JEFFERS. That was a great book at the time because i was suffering a lot of anxiety. Then i needed some more views on my dysfunctional childhood and came across TOXIC PARENTS SUSAN FOREWARD, that was really good as it went through all the different toxic parents from alcho's to physical abusers, sexual abusers, master manipulators etc, it had techniques on how to help change the parent child relationship where you become an adult with them. Then i got into YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE LOUISE L HAY i love her, but she may be too feminine for you... but the master of all the self help books i feel is Eckhart Tolle, he just visited here in dublin and i went to his live talk and Wow he was savage! He wrote THE POWER OF NOW and A NEW EARTH, really brought a new phylosphy into my life and my BF loves him too, he can seem heavy in the beginning but even getting the gist of him can have a massive impact if you can learn how to live in the now and create that awareness into your life you will be well on your way to a happy life! Best of luck anyway! XOXO


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