Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
by Martha Beck
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Author: Martha BeckEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-01-29
ISBN: 0812932188
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Book Review: Life-Changing Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This was the first book that I picked up after a devastating divorce. With my world in pieces around me, I sought comfort in Martha Beck's words, devouring them daily. This book gave me hope that I could indeed begin again and achieve the fulfilling life of which I have always dreamed. One year later, I picked it up again to reread and am getting all sorts of new insights that I missed the first time. I am blown away by how far I have come, and I give credit to Martha Beck for getting me back on track.
The book contains many interactive exercises to assist the reader in identifying both what is "right" and what is "wrong" in his or her life. It also details the stages that we go through as we tackle major life changes. All of this is interspersed with the author's humor and sensitivity.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone going through a major life upheaval or simply feeling "numb inside" from going through the motions for so many years. Don't allow yourself to go on with that feeling of "something missing." I can speak from experience...there is something better out there, sometimes in the most unlikely places.
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Summary of Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
"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.
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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