10 Best Books for Overcoming People-Pleasing at Work
I said yes to everything for thirty-four years. Not dramatically. Not in a way that anyone noticed, which is the trick of people-pleasing — it looks like being.
10 Best Books for Navigating Friendship Breakups
The thing about losing a friend is that nobody brings you a casserole. Nobody sends flowers. There's no funeral where people stand in a line and tell you.
10 Best Books for Managing Anxiety About the Future
There's a specific kind of anxiety that lives in the future. It's not about anything happening right now. It's about everything that could happen — the job you.
10 Best Books for Finding Joy and Meaning in Everyday Life
The thing nobody tells you about joy is that it doesn't announce itself. It doesn't arrive with a soundtrack or a specific feeling you can point to and say,.
10 Best Books for Developing Emotional Boundaries at Work
There's a specific moment at work that I think about more than I should. It was a Wednesday — last year, sometime in November — when a parent came into my.
10 Best Books for Coping with Seasonal Depression
There's a day in October — usually the second or third week, sometimes later if we're lucky — when Portland stops pretending it's still summer and just gives.
10 Best Books for Building Confidence in Your 40s
I turned 37 in the apartment with the dry-erase marker stains on the kitchen table, and I remember thinking: three years from 40, and I am not who I thought.
10 Best Books for Understanding Cognitive Biases and Logical Fallacies
I still remember the moment I realized I wasn't as rational as I thought I was. It was during a heated debate with my best friend about whether to invest in.
10 Best Books for Processing Childhood Trauma as an Adult
I was 36 years old, standing in the cereal aisle at Safeway, when I completely fell.
10 Best Books for Overcoming the Fear of Aging
Not because anything terrible had happened. I'd had a perfectly nice birthday dinner with friends. But afterward, I sat in my car staring at a face in the.