How to Use self-help in a Sentence

self-help

noun

• That sounds very self-help-ish, but that’s the goal, right?
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• This isn’t a self-help book — where’s the beauty in those?
  — Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• When the fight is this lopsided, all the self-help books in the world won’t show us how to win it.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• There's a ton of business books out there and then there's a ton of, for lack of a better word, self-help books.
  — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• Lily-Rose Depp plays a pop star who falls under the control of a self-help guru, played by the Weeknd.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 24 May 2023
• This also comes off as rather basic self-help for grown-ups.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
• In 1985, Shields published On Your Own, a self-help book geared toward young women.
  — Lauren Dukoff, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• But way before there were self-help books about it, my mom always followed her heart.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 27 May 2024
• Kennedy was at 15% and self-help author Marianne Williamson at 6%.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• The self-help sports book pops up throughout the season, becoming one of its best running jokes.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 22 June 2023
• Lenz’s impulse to generalize is so strong that at times her work whiffs of self-help.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
• Shaheen, a 25-year-old writer with a marketing background, is the new breakout star of the self-help genre.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
• The self-help expert’s guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones via tiny changes in behavior.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
• The self-help expert’s guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones via tiny changes in behavior.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Finding the Aya series in Yopougon is no easy task, as most book stalls in the street focus on self-help, school texts or old classics from France.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• Changing oneself is harder than perky how-to guides and self-help books suggest.
  — Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2024
• In a 2012 self-help article for The Root, Lucas defined the term for their audiences.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 26 July 2023
• Bertha Masuda has a new self-help guru: a dark-eyed junco bird.
  — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 25 July 2023
• Gets the biggest reaction from the rest of the cast due to his poor track record with women, but swears therapy and self-help books have changed him for the better.
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 7 June 2024
• Her friends goaded her to record her resilience in a self-help book, complete with recipes, which made her into a local celebrity in the Bay Area.
  — Mayukh Sen, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Jay Shetty as a wedding officiant Also in the mix is author and self-help guru to the stars, Jay Shetty.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 June 2024
• This is Melvin’s ship now, and the tone in the dugout is noticeably different from former manager and wannabe self-help guru Gabe Kapler.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
• Such is the tactic by which Brooks and the other sovereigns of self-help, with considerable skill and a pinch of cunning, advance their cause.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• In these videos, Hildebrandt and Franke sit side by side on a couch discussing topics like parenting and offering self-help tips.
  — Samantha Wanderer, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024
• Artists of the self-help group Mouth & Foot Painting Artists create lovely cards and notecards made from recycled paper.
  — Neeti Mehra, Treehugger, 8 Aug. 2023
• Calum has brought a pile of self-help books on the trip on the order of How to Meditate and sometimes goes out on the balcony and does a balletic series of tai chi moves to the music in his head.
  — Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2023
• Here’s a self-help tip to other celebrity couples: Stay vigilant.
  — Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
• Arzón is fond of motivational slogans that sound at first like any other self-help speak.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
• In Wohl’s humorous set-up, six individuals arrive at a self-help retreat run by a guru known for a successful podcast and website.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 20 July 2024
• That audacious comedy, modeled as a self-help memoir, followed the stratospheric rise of an ambitious barista at Starbucks.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024