What Problem Will Your Natural Health Self-Help Book Solve?

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A book is not about something. It’s for someone – AJ Harper, Write a Must-Read Book

I love the quote by AJ Harper. It's so important.

When it comes to writing a natural health self-help book, you are writing for someone. It's a someone who has a problem that they don't know how to solve.

So, the problem, really, is one of the most important parts when it comes to writing this type of book.

No problem, no book. 

If you’re not solving a problem or pain point for the reader, you’re just talking to yourself. So, the problem comes first. Your book is all about how you’ll solve the problem.  

This means that you need to know your ideal reader. Who is she? How old is she? What problem is she trying to solve? Does she have:

·         Chronic pain

·         Stress

·         Anxiety

·         Depression

·         Allergies

·         Chronic Fatigue

·         Lyme Disease

·         Or something else? 

Is she new to this problem? Or has she been trying to solve it for years? Does she believe in alternative, integrative, functional, holistic medicine?

Your idea for a book is how you’ll solve a particular problem for a particular reader.  

So, if someone has a problem with chronic pain, you’re going to help a reader solve this problem.

·         You might address this problem by giving readers relief through mental, physical, and emotional strategies and spiritual support. The idea/title is Mind-Body-Spirit Relief for Chronic Pain.

·         Or you might focus on natural remedies to give readers relief. The idea/title is Natural Remedies for Chronic Pain.

·         Or you may want to use your personal story about chronic pain to inform your approach and tell readers what worked for you. The idea/title is: My Journey Through and Beyond Chronic Pain.

What’s Your Solution?

For most self-help natural health books, the solution to your ideal reader’s problem is your method, plan, approach or program. Day after day, you’re working with clients or patients and seeing the same problem whatever that may be. Over time, you’ve devised a method or plan that gives them relief. Otherwise, you probably wouldn’t still be in business!

The great thing is you can use this method or plan to structure your book or create a Table of Contents. Each step you take can be a chapter. Pretty cool, huh?

From the introduction to THE END, you’ll take them on a journey that will transform their pain (solve the problem) so that they feel better. If your book is well-thought out, well-written and you get it in the hands of your ideal reader, you can have a successful book.

What’s Your Problem?

We’ve looked at your ideal reader’s pain point. What’s yours? If you are having trouble starting and finishing your book, I can help you define your ideal reader along with your idea, method or plan and structure to make writing and revising your book easier. You, like your reader, will experience relief. Whew! And you’ll be able to hold your book in your hands and share it with the world. 

P.S. Need some help figuring out how to go from book idea to published book in 2026? Email me at info@thenaturalhealthbookcoach.com to Schedule a Book Coaching Strategy Call—free now until April 1. Let’s do this!