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by: Martha Beck See Larger Image Used Price: $4.20 Third Party New Price: $27.99 Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1 EAN: 9780812932171 ISBN: 081293217X Label: Crown Manufacturer: Crown Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: March 20, 2001 Publisher: Crown Release Date: March 20, 2001 Sales Rank: 303753 Studio: Crown Related Items: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) You Can Heal Your Life (Gift Edition) Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What! The Four-Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace The Unmistakable Touch of Grace: How to Recognize and Respond to the Spiritual Signposts in Your Life see more Editorial Review: Product Description: 'The North Star -- Stella Polaris -- is a fixed point that can always be used to figure out which way you're headed. Explorers and mariners can depend on Polaris 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. You may think you're utterly lost, but brush away the leaves, wait for the clouds to clear, and you'll see your destiny shining as brightly as ever; the fixed point in the constantly changing constellations of your life.' -- Martha Beck As the creator of Life Designs, Inc., Martha Beck has helped hundreds of clients find their own North Star and figure out how to fulfill their potential and create joyful lives through her lectures, seminars, and one-on-one counseling. In her new book, she shares her step-by-step program that will guide you to fulfill your own potential. You'll start by learning how to read the internal compasses already built into your brain and body -- and why you may have spent your life ignoring their signals. As you become reacquainted with your own deepest desires, you'll identify and repair any unconscious beliefs or unhealed emotional wounds that may be blocking your progress. This will change your life, but don't worry -- although every life is unique, major transformations have common elements, and Beck provides a map that will guide you through your own life changes. You'll learn how to navigate every stage, from the first flickering appearance of a new dream to the planning and implementation of your own ideal life. Based on Dr. Beck's work as a Harvard-trained sociologist, research associate at Harvard Business School, instructor at Thunderbird Business School, and especially on her experiences with her clients over the last six years, Finding Your Own North Star offers thoroughly tested case studies, questionnaires, and exercises to help you articulate your core desires and act on them to build a more satisfying life. It's exhilarating and frightening to change your life. Finding Your Own North Star is a trusted companion for the journey. Filled with inspiration, wisdom, and Martha Beck's trademark wit, this is the right book for anyone whose life ever took a wrong turn. Amazon.com Review: 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 Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Wonderful Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Martha Beck is a book that teachers you to find your "essential self." Through self awareness exercises you begin to understand your heart desires. One learns to repair their "emotional compass" and begins to change their lifestyle. You learn to listen to your body for its directional cues thereby healing emotional wounds. If you are leaning toward a more spiritual way of healing yourself may I suggest a down to earth ... Read More Rating: - A Real Handbook for Life Someone gave me a copy of this book at a time when I really needed it. Since then I've purchased and given copies to others because it has some basic common sense for understanding the inevitable changes that occur in life, wisdom for living fully, and much wonderful humor. Very highly recommended. Rating: - Great book! This is one of the best books I've read all year. It confirms I'm on the right path, but more than that, it's a great guide that I give to all of my life/career coaching clients. I highly recommend it to anyone who feels they're on the wrong path in life and needs to figure out who they really are! Malcolm O. Munro The Career Fitness Coach[..] Rating: - The Ultimate Coaching This book offered me so much insight based off of the examination of my own life. There are workbook sections that help you pinpoint exactly where you are off your path. It helps identify the resistance and blockages in your life and it then leads you to discover exactly what you are here to do. There is a formula that Martha Beck uses as she is extremely talented as a life coach. She works from the soul and she will offer you tools and techniques to guide you to work from yours. I ... Read More Rating: - Book in good shape, but so many underlined passages I wasn't aware of. Book in good shape, but so many underlined passages and the underlines distract from my enjoyment of reading the book. I underline my books that I do not intend to sell. I wish I'd known the book I chose to purchase had so many underlined passages. I would have bought another one. see more Browse for similar items by category: Job Hunting & Careers - Business & Investing - Subjects - Books - General AAS Psychology & Counseling - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - General Psychology & Counseling - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - General AAS Self-Help - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - Motivational Self-Help - Health, Mind & Body - Subjects - Books - Success