Contributor Guidelines

Useful contributions are welcome

Explain what you intend to teach, whom you help, and your relevant experience. Offer useful knowledge even if readers never buy from you.

SelfGrowth welcomes individuals and organizations that contribute useful, topic-relevant self-development, wellness, or professional knowledge. Contributions should offer substantive value to readers even if they never buy from you.

Explain what you intend to teach, whom you help, and your relevant experience. A finished article is not required to apply, and formal academic credentials are not required for every topic.

Commercial businesses can qualify. Relevant business links are acceptable when commercial relationships are clearly disclosed and the contribution stands on its own. Selling a product does not, by itself, establish educational fit.

We do not accept submissions whose main purpose is product promotion, customer acquisition without substantive educational value, selling backlinks or paid placements, or artificial engagement.

If educational fit or topic choice is unclear, we may ask for clarification. Every contribution remains subject to review and our safety and truthful-claims requirements.

Profiles and professional experience

Describe who you are, your relevant experience, and how your work helps people; keep your identity and business relationships clear.

Your biography can describe your services, teaching, publications, and practical or lived experience. Formal academic credentials are not required for every topic.

For example, explain the audience you coach and the skills you teach. Do not use the biography to sell backlink packages, guest-post placements, or fake engagement.

Certifications

List certifications you actually hold; leave this field blank if you have none.

Include the certification name and issuing organization where possible. Describe work history, personal experience, and services in your biography instead of presenting them as certifications.

Articles with reader value

Offer useful, topic-relevant guidance, make business relationships clear, and support consequential factual claims.

A useful article should stand on its own without requiring a purchase. Relevant links to your own business are allowed when they help the reader; identify your relationship to a business you discuss or promote, including ownership, employment, representation, or paid promotion.

For example, a coach can explain a practical exercise and link to their coaching services while making that relationship clear. A thin article built around unrelated commercial links or selling placements is not a fit.

Support consequential factual claims with reliable sources that actually support the wording. A disclaimer or a personal-experience label does not make an unsafe or unsupported claim acceptable. See the claims section of the full guidelines for detail.

Links and commercial relationships

Use relevant links and disclose your relationship to businesses you discuss or promote.

A link to your own business is not automatically disallowed. Explain ownership, employment, representation, or paid promotion when relevant so readers can understand your interest.

Disclosure does not override editorial review. Unrelated commercial links, backlink sales, artificial-engagement services, gambling promotion, and deceptive investment or cryptocurrency schemes are not acceptable promotional content.

Claims, sources, and original work

Support consequential factual claims and credit other people's work accurately.

Health, financial, legal, and other consequential factual claims need reliable support appropriate to the claim. Cite a source that supports the specific wording, or remove the unsupported claim. Disclaimers and anecdotes are not substitutes for evidence.

General educational advice, clearly expressed opinions, spiritual perspectives, and accounts of lived experience do not all need academic citations. They must not be used to disguise dangerous or materially misleading factual claims.

Submit work you have the right to use. Attribute quotations and borrowed material; attribution alone does not establish permission to reproduce someone else's work.

Review and resubmission

Before submitting, check the topic, summary, links, and any changes requested by the review team.

After contributor access is approved, save a profile draft to create and submit articles. Profiles and articles are reviewed separately: neither needs to be published before the other can be approved.

Address the specific requested corrections, then resubmit for review. Saving a draft alone does not resubmit it. If a request is unclear or a control is unavailable, ask the review team for clarification.

Optional suggestions are not publication requirements. Submissions remain subject to review; acceptance, traffic, and leads are not guaranteed. Official Guide applications have a separate review process.