Must Read – "Helping Me Help Myself" by Beth Lisick

I haven’t written down any resolutions this year, but I do have a few rolling around in my head that I’m working on. I just feel like if I write them down, I’ll fail. While treating myself to my Saturday morning People fix (my guilty pleasure!) this weekend, I discovered Helping Me Help Myself by Beth Lisick. In her book, Beth recounts her year committed to her resolutions – get organized, be a better mom, exercise more and strengthen her relationship with her husband.

The thing is – Beth has decided to explore the world of self-help, a world that she’s poked fun of her entire life, does not take seriously, and is vehemently against. Over the year she works with 10 of the top self help gurus (She “Cruises to Lost with Richard Simmons who, according to Beth, must have kissed more women in his lifetime than Gene Simmons) and begins to see the reason why they are indeed 10 of the top self help gurus (except John Gray who believes women should still be ready by the door in a dress and heels holding a martini for her husband who has come home from a long day at the office!).

The book is filled with Beth’s own brilliant style of quirky humor as she pokes fun at herself and the 10 gurus. It’s a style I enjoy from the beginning – finding myself thinking of Beth as a close friend that I travel to odd places with to attend seminars on Christian Marriage, then tossing back a couple of martinis while we laugh over it. The only downer – Beth doesn’t like to shop!  For shame!

My summary: It’s a fabulous, funny book that will inspire you to keep to your resolutions while tongue is firmly planted in cheek.