Happy to Help

Happy to Help

Amy Wilson

Coming January 7, 2025

 

“In this honest, insightful, and often hilarious account, Amy Wilson explores her experience and frustrations as a people-pleaser—her story will resonate with anyone who has said, 'Happy to help!' one too many times. I couldn’t put it down.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

 

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Award-winning podcast host Amy Wilson has always been an ultimate helper. As a big sister, Girl Scout, personal assistant, sitcom sidekick, and, finally, mother of three, Amy believed it was her destiny to be a people pleaser. She learned to put others first and to look like she had everything under control, even when she very much did not.


Along the way, Amy started to wonder why doing it all had been her job. Still, when she tried to hand over some of her to-dos, no one was interested in taking them. And when she asked for help, in return, she got advice: have a sense of humor, quit nagging, and stop trying to be perfect.

Hilariously relatable, Happy to Help is a collection of essays about how you can be the one everyone else depends on and still be struggling—how you can be “happy to help,” even when, for your own sake, you shouldn’t.

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What people are saying...

“In this honest, insightful, and often hilarious account, Amy Wilson explores her experience and frustrations as a people-pleaser—her story will resonate with anyone who has said, 'Happy to help!' one too many times. I couldn’t put it down.”

Gretchen Rubin

author of The Happiness Project

“My fellow type-A souls, Amy Wilson understands us. It's time to put down all we've been carrying, pick up this funny, all-too-relatable memoir, and rejoice in the empathy of a kindred spirit. Let someone else run the world today."

Mary Laura Philpott

author of I Miss You When I Blink

“This book is a gift to women everywhere. Through candid storytelling and incisive analysis, Amy Willson illuminates the pervasive yet often invisible pressures that women encounter in their pursuit of excellence. Happy to Help is . . . a beacon of hope. . . with the gift of a trusted, smart, and funny guide to help along the way.”

Jennifer Wallace

author of Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—and What We Can Do About It

Why Zibby Loves It

I mean, don’t we all feel like this sometimes? It’s just easier to say yes or do it yourself than to delegate or decline. Amy Wilson uses her brilliance to analyze mom culture, a woman’s role in society, how we all take on more than is humanly possibly, and what, if anything, we can do about it. Her insights into her own experience only deepen the narrative.