Books like The Portable Therapist: Wise and Inspiring Answers to the Questions People in Therapy Ask the Most...

I'd be the last person to recommend a self-help book on thoughts and feelings. By the looks of this book, I thought it would be a fluffy feeling-fest of emotional strokejobs for people who are too cheap or lazy to get it from live humans. Boy was I wrong. With lucid ease, McMahon provides digestible 1-2 page "answers" to the biggest questions we ask when we feel stuck: "What is the meaning of life?" "How can I get over my past?" "Who am I?" "Why can't I say 'no'?". Her answers will surprise you with their plainspeak insight and surprising achievability. The people I've personally recommended the book to love it. There's no magic or miracles claimed anywhere here, just some well-delivered wisdom of creative self-accountability.