Topics could be improving mental health, communication, self-discipline, etc.
I've gotten a lot of value out of Faith G. Harper's books, e.g. Unfuck Your Brain and the rest of her Unfuck series. The style might be grating for some people, but there's some genuinely good content in there.
I would describe them as being... not as far-left as the average Hexbear user, but about as far left as any mainstream self-help book published in the United States can possibly be. She makes an effort to be trans-inclusive and I don't remember her using a lot of gendered language in the books of hers I've read. And in Unfuck your Worth, a book that's basically about how to psychologically deal with money problems, there's no "you have to lift yourself up by your bootstraps"-type victim-blaming language, and she at least spends a few sentences acknowledging that it's a challenge to get by in a capitalist world.
If you look them up, remember to look for books by the author Faith G. Harper. There are several books by other authors with titles like "Unfuck Your Brain" or "Unfuck Your Life", and I can't speak to whether they're any good.
Thank you so much. I'll check out Unfuck Your Brain by her first.
And yea that boostraps type shit is exactly what I'm trying to avoid.
David Burns, Feeling Good and the newer Feeling Great are neutral on politics and are as down-to-earth no-bullshit as cognitive behavioral therapy can ever get.
Pete Walker, Complex PTSD and The Tao of Fully Feeling, on overcoming child abuse from narcissistic parents. The guy has ridiculous amount of empathy and is as far from being a CHUD as one can be.
