Practically Perfect in Every Way: My Misadventures Through the World of Self-Help--And Back

From Dr. Phil to the Fly Lady A level-headed, laugh-out-loud tour of the loopy world of self-help.?( Ann Crittenden, author of "The Price of Motherhood" and "If You?ve Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything") Jennifer Niesslein has an okay life. But, dogged by a sense of dissatisfaction and a yearning for something she can?t quite name, she embarks on a two-year experiment, taking all manner of self-help advice? from housecleaning to marital to spiritual?in an effort to become a better, happier person. What Niesslein learns is that the road to self-help Nirvana is fraught with peril. She also discovers that there is such a thing as the good life?it‘s just a question of how perfect you have to be to get it.