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Self-Help Junkie
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v. A way of being
n. 1. One who is drawn to self-improvement and the betterment of their life and the lives of others yet forgets where the answers are.
2. One who has become stuck on the "self-help treadmill."
3. One who believes they are broken and need to be fixed.
Symptoms:
Enjoys expanding, growing and learning. Yet finds themselves restless, irritable and discontent. Always striving, searching, hoping ... waiting.
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You may be a Self-Help Junkie if…
- You have been reading the same 5 self-help books at the same time for the past 5 months but still haven’t taken action.
- After reading Eat, Pray, Love you became crystal clear what was missing in your life—you need a guru and to spend a month in silent meditation at an Ashram in India.
- You know more information about the top self-help authors than you do about your local politicians.
- You think you are a Buddhist, but you don’t really know what that means.
- You could own a small island in the Caribbean for the amount of money you have spent on seminars, retreats, coaches, workshops and books … and yet you are still not satisfied.
- After each course you take, you claim that you now know that you are perfect just as you are… but then you hear about this new course that really sounds perfect and you secretly think, maybe this one will be IT…
- Your coach tells you to stop reading self-help books (and you are not sure you can…)
There is nothing wrong with the exploration or the journey; it’s that some of us get lost in the searching. And there is nothing inherently wrong with self-help. The root of the “problem” lies in our relationship to it, our bottomless quest to be someone, something or somewhere other than we are, our endless seeking, searching—and waiting. The type of waiting that disguises itself in many clever ways, hiding quietly in the nuances of life or sometimes brazenly and in our face.
Don’t worry, you are not alone.
Introducing Self-Help Junkie
If you are tired of being under construction—you have come to the right place.
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