Word: self-help
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...been a "celibate monk" for nine years. "Sex became my new ecstasy," he says. After a few months of sleeping with a lot of women, including the woman who is now his wife Bonnie, he married his first wife, Barbara De Angelis, who has herself become a self-help guru, the author of How to Make Love All the Time, among other books. The two began giving sex and relationship workshops together, long weekends full of "forgiveness, tears, catharsis...
...Church of Scientology, which boasts 700 centers in 65 countries, according to Time magazine of May 6, 1991, purports "to 'clear' people of their unhappiness" through self-help techniques, career guidance and a supportive community. The Church's "Celebrity Centers," clubhouses geared toward the rich and famous, boast high-profile members such as Kirstie Alley, Sonny Bono, Tom Cruise and John Travolta...
...like sex. People who rarely read can feel abnormal. People who read all the time can feel abnormal. And because so much reading is done in private, behind closed doors (often bedroom doors), no one really knows what normal is. A book a day? A month? A year? Do self-help books count, or only novels? What if they're on tape...
Jarrett is somewhat too syrupy here for my taste, too confident that we each have a voice of our own and something worth saying. Yet, there is an edginess in his tone that saves him from self-help literature and being anthologized in the Utne Reader. Listen again: "there's more to it than marketing themselves." This is sound advice from a man who has sold gazillions of albums...
...event raised about $900 for the Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center and $300 for the House Committee...