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Title: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
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| Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Three Rivers Press A Plan for Personal Growth |
| This book provides a roadmap in times of stress and change, when we're on that road to somewhere but we just aren't sure where it'll end up. We can make it through, and the path chosen is all up to us. Beck provides insight and exercises how to get there, for each individual's own journey. There are moments of "death" in life, whether it's triggered by an actual physical death of someone we love, a life altering event or even the last child leaving the "nest," we change and grow and our life becomes something different than what it was before. Beck helps us develop a plan for the next step in our lives. |
| Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Three Rivers Press The only one you need... |
| Anything Martha Beck writes is fabulous but this classic, one of her earliest, is still my favorite. Beck is funny and smart and offers real wisdom on how to craft that ultimate life for yourself. There is much self-esteem building going on in Finding Your own North Star from dealing with emotions, saying "yes" and "no" and dealing with fear effectively. For a Beck sampling, pick up a copy of O: The Oprah Magazine. Beck writes a monthly column which is hands-down of the best features in the magazine. |
| Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Three Rivers Press loved the excercises |
| I heard about this book from a friend and it sounded interesting. I learned to look at people who make me uncomfortable, differently. I really enjoyed the excercises. It gave me greater self awareness. I would recommend this to any one of my friends. |
| Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Three Rivers Press Great! |
Finding Your Own North Star,author Martha Beck
The book was very up-lifting for me.
When I started to read the book,I couldn't put it down. |
| Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Three Rivers Press Finding Your Own North Star |
| This book is outstanding. Very clear & easy to understand. Informative & eye opening as to the root of many of our emotions as well as our responses or non-responses to people & situations. I highly recommend it for people who are searching for direction in their life or answers to why they are the way they are. |
| Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Three Rivers Press Product Description |
“Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.”
Martha Beck has helped hundreds of clients find their own North Star, fulfill their potential, and live more joyfully. Now, she shares her step-by-step program that will help you take the exhilarating and frightening journey to your own ideal life. Finding Your Own North Star will teach you how to read your internal compasses, articulate your core desires, identify and repair the unconscious beliefs that may be blocking your progress, nurture your intuition, and cultivate your dreams from the first magical flicker of an idea through the planning and implementation of a more satisfying life. Martha Beck offers thoroughly tested case studies, questionnaires, exercises, and her own trademark wit and wisdom to guide you every step of the way. |
| Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Three Rivers Press Amazon.com |
| Put the telescope away; the North Star mentioned here is a human body, not a heavenly one. And like Polaris, which has guided sailors for centuries, the human body's gut feelings and emotions can help guide a wayward soul back to his or her "essential self." In this absorbing combination of detailed self-awareness exercises and true stories from her own counseling experience (equal parts sobering and hysterically entertaining), Harvard-trained sociologist Martha Beck invites readers to explore their heart's desires and the vast social webs that keep such desires in check. The goal is not to forsake the "social self" and indulge every emotional impulse of the "essential self." Rather, Beck gives readers the tools and the encouragement to achieve maximum happiness by harmonizing these typically divergent voices. Beck (author of Expecting Adam) admits that repairing a damaged emotional compass and setting out on such a vital journey--which often involves painful realizations and changes--"has all the combined attractions of suicide and childbirth." But the payoff, she concludes, is a love affair with real life. To that end, she walks readers through a lengthy exercise to evaluate their current lifestyle's pleasures and pains, teaches the process of listening to the body for directional cues, describes how to extract "soul shrapnel" (healing all those nasty, self-defeating emotional wounds), and provides an intriguing "Map of Change" to achieve an authentic life. Beck's impressive knowledge, her engaging (if somewhat irreverent) voice, and her ability to parse this scary process into achievable steps make her a new champion in the self-help arena. --Liane Thomas |
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