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Self Help, Self Improvement, Self Empowerment, Self Growth and so on: Which Label Do YOU Like Best?


Posted by Dr. Elisabeth Kuhn Doctor of Philosophy

Self-Help is often called Self Improvement, and yet the latter label especially (and the former one too to some extent) have the connotation that there’s something amiss if one feels the need to seek out self-help or self-improvement literature and other learning tools.

I’ve just found a very interesting discussion on that issue on the excellent blog by Ken the financial philosopher and thought I’d share it with you:

PickTheBrain.com’s Self-Improvement Discussion

What do you think?

My own favorite terms actually are “self-empowerment” and “self-growth” but I also like “self-help” because it implies that yes, you can help yourself. You can take things into your own hands and do something about them.

:-)

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I use "heart and soul health" to define my journey.  If heart didn't have alternative meanings, I would use "heart health" because, along with the rest of american society, I use the term "heart" to refer to my emotional/ mental health.  I suppose if I was in some african cultures, i would use "liver health".  hehe 

Take care,

Cathy

www.mommymotivation.me

I vote for self-growth or personal growth. I believe we're each on a path toward our own perfection, leaning lessons, refining personal impurities, gaining knowlege, loving unconditionally. It's all about growing, changing, evolving.

Thanks for the inights!

Self-help

I use this one in my blog cure-depression-now.blogspot.com and to me it is the shortest yet most wide phrase. Self-help means both improvement that leads to growth and treatment that leads to healthy life of body and soul.

For self empowerment, I use many tools, preferably free ones for the most part. I like clarifylife, moodgym, and the free forums that are available.

http://www.clarifylife.com

Other tools are ecouch and selfgrowth.com that have a lot of information available. 

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