Bad Advice

Los Angeles Times #1 Bestseller USA Today Bestselling Book Over motivational messages? Sick AF of inspirational quotes? Done with the shiny happy bad advice that gets you nowhere? Well, heads up: youre about to get a shitload of Good Advice. In Bad Advice, relationship expert Dr. Venus Nicolinoa.k.a. Dr. Vtakes a blowtorch to the shrink-wrapped, feel good BS that passes for self-help these days. When youre heartbroken, what do you hear? You cant love anyone until you love yourself. When someones hurt you? Nobody can make you feel bad without your permission. When youre just a little too positive? Expectations lead to disappointment. Pop culture noise gives Bad Advice the varnish of truthiness and inspiration. But its not truth; its not inspiration. Its bullshit. And at its root, all Bad Advice operates off the same lie: Emotions are optional. In Bad Advice, Dr. V delivers a bracing truth serum, in the form of Good Advicean antidote to the bullshit, from Just Be Yourself to Live Each Day Like Its Your Last, that teaches you to live your life in a way that honors who you are, what you need, and how you feel. Smart and irreverent, Dr. V fuses the brains and insight of a nerdy Ph.D. with the heart of a doting Italian Mother and the artful profanity of a Philly trucker. Dr. Vs signature combination of humor, hard science, and heart make Bad Advice an iconoclastic course-correction like no other. A fiercely sharp wake-up call that tackles some of self-helps most damaging truisms, Bad Advice is a never shy guide to tapping into your full potential.