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The books that changed my 2019
Self-help books that actually help.
This article is cross-posted from my weekly newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a newsletter about clarity, intention, and useful tips for creating more meaning in your life that goes out every Sunday morning. Subscribe here. I am also a personal development strategist and coach working to help people with self-acceptance, self-trust, and self-compassion. You can learn more about working with me here.
Happy Sunday, friends. Like many of you, I suspect, I’m a big reader. When I was a kid, it was a weekend treat to go to the local bookstore with my family, where I got to pick out one or two books (shoutout to Crown Books; total aside, it turns out they didn’t close down with the advent of the internet or Borders like I assumed; they were basically the third-largest bookstore in the country when a riveting family divorce and bitter feud between a son and father drove them into bankruptcy; can we get a movie about this?). While the rest of my family loitered in the aisles browsing titles, I’d hone in on a book (usually Babysitters Club or Anne of Green Gables), pick it, sit down in a corner, start reading it — and by the time we got home, I would have finished it in the car. I went on to major in English Lit in college, and since then have blown my way through, well, all the books. Most of them fiction.
