Martha Nibley Beck

The author of Expecting Adam introduces her step-by-step plan for identifing core desires and acting upon them to create successful, satisfying, and more fulfilling lives. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

Finding Your Own North Star

An inspirational memoir describes how a couple struggled to cope when their unborn second child, Adam, was diagnosed with Down syndrome, their decision to keep their son, and his magical influence on their lives. Reprint.

A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

Expecting Adam

Offers a behavior-oriented program for a satisfying life, designed around truth, desire, creativity, risk, treats, play, laughter, connection, feasting, and doing nothing.

10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life

The Joy Diet

John and Martha were an ambitious American couple. With six Harvard degrees between them, and living in the refined atmosphere of the Harvard campus, the last thing they expected was to become parents to a Down's Syndrome baby. This is their story.

A True Story of Birth, Transformation & Unconditional Love

"Maybe, once or twice in your life, you've 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 person's story is everyone's. 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. It feels almost magical to Diana Archer -- out-of-work store clerk, former foster child, and bearer of multiple psychological diagnoses -- when she's pulled into the orbit of world-famous life coach and reality TV star Roy Richards. Together, Diana and Roy embark on the latest in his series of "conquests," surviving a month in California's trackless Sierras Oscuras National Forest. It's in the forest that their quest devolves into disaster -- and the real magic begins. Lost, alone, and dying, Diana is taken under the trotter of a benevolent spirit animal (or is it a projection of her perennially troubled mind?) who promises to take her home. But "home" proves to be a place much more mysterious than Los Angeles. Awakening is the goal, Diana learns, and bewilderment is the method. As the first volume of the three-part "Bewilderment Chronicles" proceeds, Diana will undergo a transformation that will change her irrevocably, and just possibly save the world. Let the enchantment begin."--provided by publisher.

an allegory of awakening

Diana, herself

In a thoughtful examination of faith, bestselling author and life coach Beck chronicles her difficult decision to leave the Mormon church, and her struggle to overcome a dark secret buried in her childhood.

How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith

Leaving the Saints

Beck

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.

How to Fulfil Your Destiny, No Matter What

Steering by Starlight

A look at the moment of crisis that many women are forced to confront discusses the conflicting life roles that can lead to this point and suggests how women can transcend such crises and redefine their lives

Martha Nibley Beck

About

Books

Join the club