LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!

self-help

  1. Events
  2. self-help

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Affirmations for the Self-Loathing

Taborspace 5441 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, United States

"I am open to the best things in life" -or- "I am immediately distrustful of good things, because i'm waiting for the other shoe to drop, but I will eventually accept that things go okay sometimes... begrudgingly" Which statement do you relate to more? If the latter, this group might be the one for you! We'll make and decorate booklets to take home where you can write your own customized (more believable) affirmations to inject a little positivity in our daily lives (but not too much!) FREE Read more about Reimagining Recovery at www.reimaginingrecovery.org/ or our Facebook page Reimagining Recovery Title is tongue-in-cheek: You don't actually have to loathe yourself to benefit from this one!

Free

Chani Nicholas in Conversation With Cheryl Strayed

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Modern astrology isn’t about passively accepting our fate, it’s about action, and beloved astrologer Chani Nicholas shows you how to bring this life-changing practice into your life and embrace self-empowerment, intentionality, and spirituality. Nicholas encourages her devotees to take control – to confront themselves, their desires, and their needs – to fulfill their potential using the power of the stars. Written in her lyrical, cool-girl, feminist style, You Were Born for This (HarperOne) explains how knowing your star signs and what they mean for your individual character can be revelatory. Nicholas will be joined in conversation by Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Brave Enough.

Free

Faith G. Harper

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

In her new book, Unfuck Your Boundaries (Microcosm), bestselling author Dr. Faith Harper offers a full understanding of issues of boundaries and consent, how we can communicate and listen more effectively, and how to survive and move on from situations where our boundaries are violated.

Free

John Perkins in Conversation With David Korten

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

What can you do to make the world a better place and create a more satisfying life for yourself? In his new book, Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear Into Action to Change Your Life (Berrett-Koehler Publishers), John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, invites us to answer that question. Perkins details how shamanism converted him from an economic hit man to a crusader for transforming a failing Death Economy (exploiting resources that are declining at accelerating rates) into a Life Economy (cleaning up pollution, recycling, and developing resource-regenerative technologies). He describes the power our perceptions have for molding reality, both individually and globally. And he provides a strategy for each of us to change our lives and defend our territory — the…

Continue readingJohn Perkins in Conversation With David Korten
Free

Casper ter Kuile in Conversation With Nadia Bolz-Weber

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices — yoga, reading, walking the dog — into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose. We are in crisis today. Our modern technological society has left too many of us — no matter our ages — feeling isolated and bereft of purpose. Previous frameworks for building community and finding meaning no longer support us. Yet ter Kuile reveals a hopeful new message: we might not be religious, but that doesn’t mean we are any less spiritual. In The Power of Ritual (HarperOne), ter Kuile invites…

Continue readingCasper ter Kuile in Conversation With Nadia Bolz-Weber
Free

Livestream Reading: Marlena Fiol and Sherry Belul

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Choosing Compassion over Fear: Celebrating World Kindness Day Annie Bloom's welcomes Marlena Fiol and Sherry Belul for a conversation and readings from their new books. We all have an equal capacity to harm or to heal. Confronted by our current challenges, will we choose to shut down in fear and anger, or will we reach out with kindness and compassion? Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrf-ytqDIvEtbtp3tgHxV5pGb4RWMAlq1O Celebrated scholar, speaker, and author Marlena Fiol shares an up close & personal look into one person’s journey from fear and anger to compassion. Her book, Nothing Bad Between Us, reveals her deeply personal story about growing up on a leprosy compound in Paraguay, South America, with a father who was both a generous, dedicated healer and a brutal disciplinarian. After escaping…

Continue readingLivestream Reading: Marlena Fiol and Sherry Belul
Free

Faith G. Harper & Joe Biel

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Accountability means accepting responsibility for your actions and repairing any harm you have done. Joe Biel and Faith G. Harper’s new workbook, How to be Accountable (Microcosm), can be used by anyone who is ready to do the work to change toxic behaviors and patterns, from quitting smoking to atoning for abuse or crimes. Biel and Harper will walk you through your own head to understand your patterns and behaviors, untangle them, and live the kind of life you want. Bestselling author Harper also presents her two other new books,Unfuck Your Worth: Overcome Your Money Emotions, Value Your Own Labor, and Manage Financial Freak-Outs in a Capitalist Hellscape (Microcosm) and Unfuck Your Year: a Weekly Unplanner and Self-Care Activity Book to Manage Your Anxiety, Depression,…

Continue readingFaith G. Harper & Joe Biel
Free

Livestream Event: Polly Campbell

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Portland author Polly Campbell for a livestream presentation from her new book, You, Recharged: How to Beat Fatigue (Mostly), Amp Up Your Energy (Usually), and Enjoy Life Again (Always). Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrf-Cvqj0iEtYacgrt_C0wP2TvB6U2QEwg About You, Recharged: When author and podcaster Polly Campbell got tired of her hoodie smelling like pizza and her days being clouded by midlife over-exhaustion, emotional burnout, and boredom, she decided to get off the couch and reclaim her core energy. But could this burned-out, chronically ill, middle-aged mother of a teen rediscover her vitality? Yes. And so can you. Self-help books for women often encourage you to throw out the life you're living and create a fresh start. You, Recharged isn't about that. You don't have to quit…

Continue readingLivestream Event: Polly Campbell
Free

John Mark Comer in Conversation With Tyler Staton

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Pastor John Mark Comer, the bestselling author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, wants you to know that whether you want to be or not, you are at war. Not with foreign assailants or domestic terrorists. No, this is the sort of war you experience deep in your mind and body. It’s a war with the forces that seek to wreak havoc in your hearts and homes through subtle deceptions. For two millennia, apprentices of Jesus have been at war with three fierce and consistent adversaries of the soul: the world, the flesh, and the devil. To this day, they feed us deceptive ideas that appeal to disordered desires that harm our spiritual and relational well-being. In his new book, Live No Lies (WaterBrook), Comer…

Continue readingJohn Mark Comer in Conversation With Tyler Staton
Free

Click a category label below to view the calendar with only events in that specific category.