TeenConnect: Turning Point March 31, 2025 Issue

I wanted to be happy again

Amy Richmond

I felt like I needed a break from Christian Science. I’d had some big healings in my life; I had no doubt that prayer heals. But after a series of life events that pretty much decimated me, I wanted something different. Really different.

I started reading a lot of self-help books, and they all seemed to have so much promise in them. Sometimes they had easy steps to follow or questionnaires to fill out, and I had big hopes that I was going to have just as much success as the people in the books had had. I’d go to the bookstore and be in the self-help section for hours, always going home with a stack of new titles that made me feel I was finally going to be OK.

Unfortunately, my initial euphoria that things were going to get better faded as I saw that none of the new “life plans” really changed anything. The ideas in the books didn’t have the kind of lasting impact I’d been hoping for.

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