Way of Integrity (Penguin Publishing Group)

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This radiant book will not only change your life, but perhaps even save it. Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author Martha Beck's genius is that her writing is equal parts comforting and challenging. A teacher, a mother, a sage, she holds our hand as she leads us back home to ourselves. Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author Bestselling author, life coach, and sociologist Martha Beck explains why integrity needed now more than ever in these tumultuous times is the key to a meaningful and joyful lifeAs Martha Beck says in her book, Integrity is the cure for psychological suffering. Period. 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 also bring us to a place of genuine happiness.