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Please post self-help books you consider comfort reads in this thread.

My favorite author for reducing anxiety has written several books. Her name is Byron Katie and I would highly recommend Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life or any of her other books. She cuts right to the chase and using four simple questions, forces you to examine or uncover that whatever is causing your anxiety, fear etc. is a story and not necessarily the truth. Okay, I'm not doing justice to her work here but and I'm probably oversimplifying but her books are excellent.

The following self-help book as been really an eye-opener and very comforting, Living With Dyspraxia: A Guide for Adults With Developmental Dyspraxia. The author has not only managed to explain why I am the way I am and that being clumsy and easily distracted does not mean that you are lazy or chaotic, she also gives some very good advice on how to organise your home etc.

"Lessons from the fat-o-sphere" by Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby.

Written by two fat acceptance bloggers, this is for anyone who is fat, dealing with body image issues or both. Great advice, some eye opening numbers,and hard science to back it all up. Includes on-line resources and books to read for more information.

I cried all through the book. It is the only "self help" type of book that I have ever found helpful.

Lee wrote: "My favorite author for reducing anxiety has written several books. Her name is Byron Katie and I would highly recommend [book:Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life..."

Lee you are so right, her books are awesome!

I should be re-reading those right now!

Me too! I was venting to my sister this morning and she suggested I do that. I tend to be a worrier.

Gundula wrote: "The following self-help book as been really an eye-opener and very comforting, Living With Dyspraxia: A Guide for Adults With Developmental Dyspraxia. The author has not only manage..."

I need to read that one! Sounds like me :-)

Martha wrote: "Gundula wrote: "The following self-help book as been really an eye-opener and very comforting, Living With Dyspraxia: A Guide for Adults With Developmental Dyspraxia. The author has..."

If it sounds like you, you should definitely read it. For me, it was an eye opener. And, it also gave me the push I needed to try to get assessed (I actually have a meeting this week about the assessment). Another book that I found interesting on the subject (and I was also awed because it was written by a teenager who has dyspraxia) is Caged In Chaos: A Dyspraxic Guide To Breaking Free.

Gundula wrote: "The following self-help book as been really an eye-opener and very comforting, Living With Dyspraxia: A Guide for Adults With Developmental Dyspraxia. The author has not only manage..."

Thank you Gundula.

Ellie wrote: "Gundula wrote: "The following self-help book as been really an eye-opener and very comforting, Living With Dyspraxia: A Guide for Adults With Developmental Dyspraxia. The author has..."

You should also check my bookshelves, I think I have other books on dyspraxia, but this one is, indeed, excellent.

Thanks for the recommendation. I will indeed check out your shelves (after I read this book).