Bad Advice

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