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What are Some Problems With The Self-Help Industry?
Everyone knows what’s best for someone else, but themselves.
Everyone is so quick to throw the label “coach” at someone nowadays. It no longer holds any value. It’s the new “buzzword” for people who want to bypass schooling with an online course to get the label.
In my opinion, experience is better than any schooling. I don’t care what your Ph.D., MSW, or whatever label you have tied to your name. Other addicts are the best help for other addicts. Same with abuse survivors.
If you have a therapist who has first-hand experience with their services, it is far more beneficial than a degree. Book smarts can only get you so far.
A lot of the coaches out there have no business coaching anyone. Many are trying to cash in on others’ misery. But what they need to do is address their own issues first and quit trying to help others with things they have never addressed in their own lives.
I believe the Self-Help industry has “jumped the shark,” so to speak. Look around at the profiles of Quora and Medium. There’s an endless supply of people calling themselves some form of a coach.
The world is in crisis right now, and it’s no secret. There have never been more desperate times than what we are…
