How Self-Help Turned to Self-Hurt

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We live in a noisy world–one where guides and self-help manuals bombard us. How-tos and hacks overflow.

Rules to a better life, body, and mind–better relationships, money sense, and time–roll out before us like an endless stretch of highway–a promised destination we can’t see.

I’ve spent years trying to sort through the advice: complex equations for a happy life, delivered from…