Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone

Review
"Her accounts of everything…are not only hilarious but enlightening. Finding useful tips amidst the bunk, she distills the best from thousands of pages of self-help books. Readers will be inspired: If a woman in a banana suit can clean her closet and pay off her credit card debt, surely you can, too." – – People

"Small moments of improvisation, coincidence and dumb luck make "Helping Me Help Myself" funny from the belly button instead of the mouth corners…Lisick has created a hilarious, knowing tale of a year of willing ridiculousness." – –San Francisco Chronicle

"A delightful, Plimptonesque exercise in immersive journalism…sharp, irreverent and endearingly screwed-up." – Kirkus Reviews

"A witty, disarmingly earnest account of the year [Lisick] spent test-driving renowned self-help franchises." – Entertainment Weekly

"Lisick has created a hilarious, knowing tale of a year of willing ridiculousness." – San Francisco Chronicle

"sweetly neurotic, funny and occasionally insightful." – Los Angeles Times

"wildly funny" and "a cross between David Sedaris and Susan Orlean." – Seattle Times

not only hilarious but enlightening… Readers will be inspired: If a woman in a banana suit can clean her closet and pay off her credit card debt, surely you can, too."