Being a great self-help author doesn’t mean you have to know all the answers. In fact, sometimes your best skill is admitting when you were wrong.

Don’t make this one huge mistake when sharing personal stories in your self-help book.

Think your wisdom deserves a place on bookshelves? Make sure you have these ten skills.

Don’t make these beginner mistakes when writing your self-help or spirituality book.

How can you captivate readers when writing about deeply personal experiences? Eat, Pray, Love offers some clues.

If you’re teaching a specific technique or practice in your self-help book, The Experience of Insight is a great model for how to do so compassionately and effectively.

Are you working on a book that brings legit science to a woo-woo subject? James Doty’s Mind Magic is the blueprint you need.

AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT can be a godsend for self-help authors with mountains of material to organize—if you know how to use them properly.

Are you allowed to quote other authors in your self-help book? What about using an exercise you learned from someone else? Find answers here!

Lundy Bancroft's Why Does He Do That? is a self-help book which has literally saved lives. Here's how he did it--and how you can do it too.

A 2008 study found that many popular self-help books contain these four fatal flaws. Don't let your book be one of them!

What's the difference between amateur self-help and spirituality authors and professional ones? Their mastery of one core skill.

If you’re a self-help author, your book is just one piece of a larger relationship with your audience—a relationship that may also include live or online classes, social media, one-on-one coaching, and in-person workshops and events.

There’s no need to reinvent the wheel! Most self-help and spirituality books are made from a small handful of familiar elements, expressed in artful ways.

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Whether it’s interviewing a shaman or researching Buddhist philosophy, a day in the life of a self-help and spirituality ghostwriter is filled with variety.

Mira Kirschenbaum’s Too Good to Leave, Too Bad To Stay is a beautiful example of laying out a compelling pain point and promise. If you’re writing a self-help book, you can do the same!

You can use personal stories effectively in your self-help or spirituality book by linking them to key concepts. don Jose Ruiz does this beautifully in The Shaman’s Path to Freedom.

What does your reader stand to lose if they don’t solve the problem your self-help book addresses? What do they stand to gain if they do? Identifying the stakes supercharges your reader’s motivation.