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Other Books by Martha Beck
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| The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life | |||
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Crown, 2003; Random House Audio, 2003; Piatkus Books UK,2004
The Joy Diet, designed for the soul rather than the body, is composed of 10 steps that, once learned, are to be practiced on a daily basis to achieve greater fulfillment and a happier life. Beck advocates daily self-nourishment through play, humor and the enjoyment of at least three personalized treats. Written in a down-to-earth, positive tone, the author's thoughtfully designed exercises, inspirational anecdotes and gentle advice fall on fertile ground. - Publishers Weekly Offers a neat list of daily practices designed to reconnect us with our souls, nourish our creativity, reward us for our efforts and worth, and connect us with others in a supportive, loving way. The often beautiful ideas are very current, a great example of today's measured focus on the higher aspects of the self and the tools we must use to manifest our strengths. - AudioFile Order from your nearest independent book store at BookSense.com or online at Powells.com, amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com. |
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Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life you were meant to Live | |||
| Crown, 2003; Random House Audio, 2003 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. …Beck gives readers the tools and the encouragement to achieve maximum happiness by harmonizing these typically divergent voices. 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. - Amazon.com Review Martha Beck has a rare ability to see the world with wisdom and heart. She is a teacher in the truest sense of the word - Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger and The Dance of Connection Order from your nearest independent book store at BookSense.com or online at Powells.com, amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com. |
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 | Follow Your North Star (Compact Disc) | |||
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Sounds True, 2005 Over two million readers a month look to Martha Beck for her advice in O: The Oprah Magazine. Now, here’s the audio workshop her readers have been waiting for: her all-in-one guide for recognizing your life’s purpose, staying on course, and reaching your fullest potential for happiness. On Follow Your North Star, Beck offers straightforward-yet-simple tools for “charting” your life path by following the unchangeable “true north” markers of your life. “The terrain along the journey of life is spectacularly varied,” teaches Martha Beck. “But the one thing that will never change is that your true nature will always urge you toward your destiny.” - Sounds True Order from Sounds True, your nearest independent book store at BookSense.com or online at Powells.com, amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com. |
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Expecting Adam: A true story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic | |||
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Random House,1999; Berkley Publishing Group, 2000
A wonderful book, funny, unbelievably tender, and smart. It shimmers. - Anne Lamott, author of Operating Instructions Martha Beck is smart, willing to confide in the reader, good at concise description and very funny. - The New York Times Book Review, Susan Cheever Wickedly funny and wrenchingly sad memoirs of a young mother awaiting the birth of a Down syndrome baby while simultaneously pursuing a doctorate at Harvard. …In her son she sees wisdom, beauty, and a way of looking at the world that is astonishing and joyous. Besides a sense of humor that pokes as much fun at herself as anyone, Beck has both a sharp eye and a sharp tongue. Her portraits of Harvard academics, omniscient doctors, and uptight in-laws are priceless. Even skeptics will find magic in this story, and parents of a Down syndrome child will cherish it. - Kirkus Reviews Set half in Harvard and half in heaven, Expecting Adam is a tough-minded yet tender-hearted book of spiritual discovery--a rueful, riveting, piercingly funny, thoroughly modern and deeply old-fashioned memoir. In short, a book to be reckoned with. - Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way Expecting Adam is not one of those grit-your-teeth, lemons-into-lemonade sagas that leave the reader feeling more besieged and guilty than the writer. It is a long hymn, from a practical woman caught flatfooted by amazing grace. Martha Beck is a celebrant skeptics can trust. - Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Most Wanted and The Deep End of the Ocean Slyly ironic, frequently hilarious, Beck's memoir charts the journey from being smart to becoming wise. - Time Magazine Order from your nearest independent book store at BookSense.com or online at Powells.com, amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com. |
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| Breaking Point: Why Women Fall Apart and How They Can Re-create Their Lives | |||
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Random House, 1998
Behind the elegant power of 300 women relating their life stories lies a naked truth that any woman of any age will instantly comprehend. Today, Prozac-dependent or not, American women are caught between two societies: the traditional (homemaker, caregiver) and the modern (breadwinner, independent). Neither works. And with a 10-year research study and piercing insights, sociologist Beck eloquently describes the five phases that women work through to achieve honesty, true self, and peace: satori, or the moment of transcendence. Each stage includes gut-wrenching testimonials from women in paralysis (or nearly so), women who have experienced meltdown, and the few who have re-created themselves. A moving yet practical handbook on how to be all you can be. - Barbara Jacobs, Booklist A sociologist's astute insights into the stresses that drive American women to crisis, with a more ingenuous analysis of how those dilemmas are resolved. Hundreds of interviews with women in the US and Asia, as well as her own personal "breaking point," gave her the material to write this book. It is the sociologist part of her that successfully defines and describes the paradoxical pressures that place contemporary women in a double bind, a paradox left over from the 18th century: Women are encouraged to achieve today, but are still considered "unfeminine" when they do; women who adhere to traditional roles are condemned for not being achievers. The "traditional" thought of the Dark Ages, where social stratification was rigid and women were subordinate to men, clashes with the philosophy of the Enlightenment in which "rational humans" celebrated equal opportunity. - Kirkus Reviews Order a copy of this out-of-print book at bookfinder.com, abebooks.com, alibris.com or at buybooks@amazon.com. |
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