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
• Someone who reads self-help books that teach him how to be a better man.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
• 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
• The first is frequently to be found in self-help books: Imagine the worst thing that can happen, and accept it.
  — Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
• Something that the therapy and the excuses and the self-help couldn’t conjure.
  — Amber Rae, SELF, 4 Aug. 2025
• In 1985, Shields published On Your Own, a self-help book geared toward young women.
  — Lauren Dukoff, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• The self-help bona fides were clear from the title: Wurst was emerging from the ashes of past troubles, and nobody could stop her.
  — Miriam Quick, New York Times, 15 May 2025
• 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
• The self-help high fades fast when no one around you believes bigger is possible.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
• The two men’s paths had first crossed in Detroit, where Fard Muhammad was a street peddler of silk goods who also preached a self-help faith.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 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, 5 Feb. 2025
• 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 some ways, the pursuit of self-help has been that unfortunate journey.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 19 Aug. 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
• His father scoffed at the self-help gurus and nurtured his interest in business.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2026
• What remains is a tool of self-discipline, disguised as self-help.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
• Frankie Errington leads the cast as Finch, a cunning window-washer who uses a self-help book to scheme his way to the top.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
• Many courts will also offer free bankruptcy clinics or self-help resources.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026