Bestselling author, life coach and sociologist Martha Beck explains why 'integrity' - being in harmony with ourselves - is the key to a meaningful and joyful life

In The Way of Integrity, Beck presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. Much of what plagues us-people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits-all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us feel whole.

Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Beck uses Dante's classic hero's journey as a framework to break down the process of attaining personal integrity into small, manageable steps. She shows how to read our internal signals that lead us towards our true path, and to recognize what we actually yearn for versus what our culture sells us.

With techniques tested on hundreds of her clients, Beck brings her expertise as a social scientist, life coach and human being to help readers to uncover what integrity looks like in their own lives. She takes us on a spiritual adventure that not only will change the direction of our lives, but bring us to a place of genuine happiness.

Do you feel that your life has taken a wrong turn and you don't know how to get back on track? This book provides a step-by-step programme to put you on course again. Aimed at everyone, it shows you how to recognise your deepest desires, examines why they have been forgotten and then gives practical advice on how to fulfil them. Helps you identify your dreams and goals. Lets you repair unconscious beliefs and emotional wounds that may be blocking your progress. Provides a map to guide you through your life changes. Takes you through every stage from recognising your dream to planning its implementation. Motivates you throughout with thoroughly tested case studies, questionnaires, and exercise.

Martha Beck's remarkable success in helping people to change their lives has won her accolades everywhere from National Public Radio to "USA TODAY." She made multiple appearances on "Oprah "and "Good Morning America "for the hardcover edition of "Steering by Starlight," which now offers readers a powerful set of new tools--fresh coping strategies based on cutting-edge research in psychiatry and neurology--that will help them overcome obstacles and set their lives on course. Dr. Beck's trademark humor and empathy are at the heart of her gift for helping people who feel disconnected from their true sense of purpose: to locate meaning in their lives. Utilizing the same methods that have proven most effective with her private clients, Dr. Beck reconnects readers with their authentic needs and desires. Whether a person is seeking better relationships, more focused career direction, or a more harmonious lifestyle, "Steering by Starlight"'s hilarious and touching anecdotes, case studies, and practical exercises will point the way.

The 4-Day Win is a diet book with a difference. Martha Beck has spent years studying social behaviour and she believes that the key to losing weight is learning to adjust our behaviour patterns and the way we think about food. Research shows that if you change the way you act and behave over a four day period it will be much easier not to slip back into bad habits. Accordingly, The 4-Day Win is a series of short four-day programmes to help you gradually change the way you behave toward food and weight loss. Martha Beck explains that if you go through these preparatory stages prior to actually beginning your diet then when you start to diet you'll find it much easier to adjust to eating less. Chapters include:* How to Stop Eating When You Can't Stop Eating* The Most Important Weight Loss Skill in the History of the Universe* Researching Your Life. The 4-Day Win is fun to read and full of new ideas that are effortless to try and which will help you modify your attitude to food which will lead to permanent change. Written in Martha Beck's inimitable style, it gives dieters hope that they will be able to succeed in losing and keeping those extra pounds off forever.

Many people wonder how they got where they are and what they should do now. They feel called to help others and change the world but they just don't know how. Too often, they end up stuck in careers and relationships that don't fit. Now, in Finding Your Way In A Wild New World, popular life coach Martha Beck shows readers how to find their true selves and extend healing to everyone and everything around them. She identifies this growing body of people as wayfinders. Drawing on her coaching expertise and her extraordinary experiences in the South African bush, Martha leads her readers through four magical and practical steps to awaken them to a new way of living in the 21st century.

"Finding Your Way in a Wild New World "reveals a remarkable path to the most important discovery you can make: the knowledge of what you should be doing with your one wild and precious life. It's the thing that so fulfills you that, if you knew what it was, you'd run straight toward it through brambles and fire. Life coach and bestselling author of "Finding Your Own North Star "Martha Beck guides you to find out how you got to where you are now and what you should do next, with clear instructions on tapping into the deep, wordless knowledge you carry in your body and soul.
You probably have sensed that you have a higher calling and a quiet power that could change the world--you lack only the tools. With her sparkling prose, Beck draws from ancient wisdom and modern science to help you consciously tap into that power and develop those tools for transformation." "You'll also find your inner identity and your external "tribe" of like-minded people, experience the spark of inspiration, and take action to make a lasting impact on the world.
Compassionate and inspirational, "Finding Your Way in a Wild New World "is a revolutionary journey of self-discovery that leads to miraculous change.

Described as one of the best known life coaches in America, Martha Beck has demonstrated a rare gift for helping people who have gone off course to find their way back to rewarding lives. Now, in STEERING BY STARLIGHT, she describes the step-by-step process she uses with her private clients to help them fulfill their potential. Bringing together cutting-edge research in psychiatry, neurology, and related fields in an accessible, compassionate, and original way, Dr Beck reveals powerful new methods for solving the problems that beset ordinary people. Using her trademark wisdom, empathy, and engaging style, she connects you with personal coping strategies as she helps you overcome the alienation that is causing you to lose sight of your authenticity. Beck identifies three stages along the path to recapturing a satisfying life: 'The Stargazer', 'The Mapmaker' and 'The Pathfinder'. Whether it's seeking better relationships, more focused career direction, the achievement of specific fitness goals, or a more harmonious lifestyle, STEERING BY STARLIGHT's colourful anecdotes, case studies, and exercises will point the way.

Maybe, once or twice in your life, you have experienced a surge of destiny so strong it made you believe in miracles. Such bolts from the blue seem to hit when weariness or ill fortune have plowed through the ground of reason, breaking it up so magic can take root. What follows is so perfect that to call it accidental defies belief. Diana Archer is an absolutely -- mathematically! -- average woman, living an unremarkable life, when destiny reaches her. Without quite knowing how or why, she finds herself leaving everything familiar and moving into a world where miracles are commonplace, where her supposed flaws become her salvation, and where each persons story is everyones. In this exuberant allegory, bestselling memoir and self-help author Martha Beck takes readers into the wild parts of the world and the human psyche. The story of Diana, Herself helps every reader chart a course for awakening to greater joy, adventure, and purpose.

John and Martha were an exceptionally ambitious and driven all-American couple. With six Harvard degrees between them, and living in the refined and competitive atmosphere of the Harvard campus, the last thing they expected was to become parents to a Down's Syndrome baby. Refusing to believe her child was 'defective', Martha decided to trust in the tiny life she felt growing inside her. And her hitherto ordinary life was transformed by magical visions and strange, heartstopping experiences which persisted throughout her pregnancy. By the time Adam was born, Martha and John had to redefine everything of value to them, question their deepest beliefs, and put all their faith in miracles. And it worked.

“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.

Many adults who had challenging childhoods find that their childhood fears impact on their lives as adults. If you behaved in a very responsible and reliable manner when you were a child and if, now that you are an adult, you often feel childlike and vulnerable in stressful situations, you are in all likelihood an adult child. Having a childhood that is unpredictable or inconsistent in any way often results in a range of characteristics and limiting beliefs which include a need to be perfect, an inability to trust others, and a horror of asking for help. It doesn’t really matter what was going on in your family, or why you felt like you needed to be a grown-up when you were a child. What matters is that you did.

Recover from your Childhoodwill take you on a journey of self-discovery and provide you with powerful tools to will guide you through a process of healing. It will bring you relief from the confusion and anxiety that may have been your constant companions, and it will guide you to a place of understanding and acceptance of yourself.

This book will help you to change – not who you are, but how you are.

You asked, we listened: Enjoy your favorite Martha Beck columns from O, the Oprah Magazine in one place In the "Martha Beck Collection, Volume 1: Essays for Creating your Right Life," we have compiled 25 of your all-time favorite articles from Martha's column in "O, the Oprah Magazine" in a fun, easy-to-absorb digest format With a brand spankin' new foreword by Martha Beck herself, this tasty little morsel offers her best advice on a variety of topics including relationships, holding grudges, avoiding avoidance, problem-solving, handling mean people, and good old-fashioned love.

Need help facing your life's challenges? In Changes of the Heart, thirteen life coaches offer their best strategies for some of life's toughest moments. Following principles developed by Dr. Martha Beck - such as seeking what's right for you within yourself and taking change one easy step at a time - each coach has written about her particular expertise. Look inside for genuine, effective strategies for improving your finances, raising challenging children, living in gratitude, making difficult choices, living after loss, handling difficult relationships at work, losing weight, restoring your energy, writing a book, and rediscovering yourself. Changes of the Heart provides warm and real help from diverse certified life coaches speaking from their individual experiences.

"Leaving the Saints is an unforgettable memoir about one woman's spiritual quest and journey toward faith. As "Mormon royalty" within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church's high elders--known as the apostles--and her existence was framed by their strict code of conduct. Wearing her sacred garments, she married in a secret temple ceremony--but only after two Mormon leaders ascertained that her "past contained no flirtation with serious sins, such as committing murder or drinking coffee." She went to church faithfully with the other brothers and sisters of her ward. When her son was born with Down syndrome, she and her husband left their graduate programs at Harvard to return to Provo, Utah, where they knew the supportive Mormon community would embrace them.
However, soon after Martha began teaching at Brigham Young University, she began to see firsthand the Church's ruthlessness as it silenced dissidents and masked truths that contradicted its published beliefs. Most troubling of all, she was forced to face her history of sexual abuse by one of the Church's most prominent authorities. This book chronicles her difficult decision to sever her relationship with the faith that had cradled her for so long and to confront and forgive the person who betrayed her so deeply.
This beautifully written, inspiring memoir explores the powerful yearning toward faith. It offers a rare glimpse inside one of the world's most secretive religions while telling a profoundly moving story of personal courage, survival, and the transformative power of spirituality.

"From the Hardcover edition.