$9 Therapy: Semi-Capitalist Solutions to Your Emotional Problems

by Megan Reid, Nick Greene

Overview

A tongue-in-cheek collection of the tips, tricks, and recipes that will fix your life without busting your budget.

$9 Therapy proves that it’s possible to take self-care seriously without taking yourself too seriously.

Self-professed lifestyle gurus Nick Greene and Megan Reid know that sometimes it takes as little as spending nine dollars on an act of self-care to turn your day around. While working their first, low-paying jobs out of school, Nick and Meg learned to spend wisely—and fabulously—and firmly came to believe in the radical potential of simple pleasures. In $9 Therapy, they use their hard-won wisdom to show how small, inexpensive treats can elevate your adulting game: whether it’s mindfully repotting a plant to finally drinking from a decent wine glass (even if you can afford only one), to recipes you’ll actually want to cook, to design tips to make even the tiniest spaces look like Instagram-bait.

With enthusiasm and sass, (and featuring 30 colorful illustrations), $9 Therapy brings together the lifehacks and mini-upgrades that encourage you to make your life a little bit easier, a little bit less stressful, a little bit better, a little more loving toward yourself and the humans around you.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062936332
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/11/2020
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	1,035,394
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 7.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Megan Reid works in books and television. She’s lived in seven states and two countries, but now she’s happy to be based in New York with her dog, Luna. Meg is also the author of Althea Gibson: The Story of Tennis’ Fleet-of-Foot Girl. You can visit her online at www.meganreid.co.

Nick Greene & Megan Reid have been friends, brunch companions, and lifestyle co-conspirators since they met as book publishing assistants in 2011. A graduate of Brown’s creative writing program, Nick has worked on the editorial and product development teams at Atavist, n+1, McSweeney’s, and BuzzFeed. Most recently, he joined the biometric identity company CLEAR. Meg acquired and edited several bestselling and award-winning books after receiving her master’s degree in English literature, and now works in television development. Nick and Meg live and write in Brooklyn, New York, where their dogs, Ogden and Luna, are frequent playmates and diligent pwoofreaders. 

Editorial Reviews

01/13/2020

Reid, a former editor at Simon & Schuster, and Greene, a former magazine editor, cobble together an unfocused collection of tips for those on a budget in this slight guide to self-care. The stated goal is to make life simpler and more enjoyable, but the authors’ scattered, unfocused approach makes their advice hard to follow. Anyone familiar with self-help basics will recognize much of the advice—be it taking mental health days or doing short workouts—as the authors jump across self-help mainstays such as decluttering and meditation, self-care-adjacent topics including opting out of junk mail, and, randomly, the uses for a glue gun. Also included are recipes, lists of things to pack for a vacation, and book recommendations. Boxed snippets of quirky advice hover at the top of some pages: “Pack a string of fairy lights to turn even the dreariest travel photo into instant spon-con.” Directed toward young urbanites, the authors’ cursory advice contains sparks of inspiration but, as a whole, fails to provide the budget-minded comfort touted. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly