Over motivational messages? Sick AF of inspirational estimates? Done with the sparkly happy bad guidance that gets you nowhere? Well, heads up: you’re going to get yourself a shitload of ADVICE.

In Bad Guidance, 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.

If you are heartbroken, what do you hear? You can’t like anyone until you love yourself. When someone’s harm you? Nobody could make you feel bad without about Poor Advice: How to Survive and Thrive in a day and time of Bullshit your permission. When you’re just a little too positive? Goals result in disappointment.

Pop culture noise gives Bad Assistance the varnish of truthiness and inspiration. But it’s not truth; it isn’t inspiration. It’s bullshit. And at its root, all Bad Tips operates from the same rest: Feelings are optional. In Bad Tips, Dr. V delivers a bracing truth serum, in the form of Good Advice-an antidote to the bullshit, from “Just Be Yourself” to “Live EVERY DAY Like It’s Your Last,” that teaches you to live life in a way that honors who you are, the thing you need, and how you feel.

Smart and irreverent, Dr. V fuses the brains and understanding of the nerdy Ph.D. using the heart of a doting Italian Mother and the artful profanity of the Philly trucker. Dr. V’s personal combination of laughter, hard research, and heart make Bad Guidance an iconoclastic course-correction like no additional. A fiercely sharp wake-up contact that tackles some of self-help’s most damaging truisms, Bad Advice is a never shy guideline to tapping into your full potential.