Is self-help and self-development potentially harmful?

Can it sometimes only reaffirm our issues and make us feel like a failure, broken and unfixable?

In one word YES.

But you have to really listen to what I say, as you may deeply disagree with the original statement, which is fine, but you have to understand a deeper level within this episode.

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