The Way of Integrity
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4.0 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'A roadmap on the journey to truth and authenticity... [The Way of Integrity] is filled with aha moments and practical exercises that can guide us as we seek enlightenment' Oprah Winfrey
'This radiant book will not only change your life, but perhaps even save it' Elizabeth Gilbert
'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
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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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In this insightful self-help guide, life coach Martha Beck argues that human suffering is caused by a lack of integrity. She’s not talking about morality, but rather structural integrity: everything being in proper working order, like with an airplane or bridge. Beck uses Dante’s Inferno—a metaphorical story about journeying through hell on the way to paradise—to describe how you get that integrity…but it’s less dramatic than that sounds. Using solid data from psychology, neurology, and sociology, as well as case studies from her own career, Beck illustrates how much growth comes from facing and overcoming your internal suffering. Each chapter ends with probing questions to answer and exercises to complete and they’re pretty revelatory. (One task is not to tell a single lie for 30 days, even to spare a loved one’s feelings.) Beck’s narration is warm and friendly, which helps to make these soul-baring exercises less intimidating. The Way of Integrity may be one of the most useful self-development books you’ll ever listen to.
Customer Reviews
Integrity
I have never heard the word integrity misused in so many ways!
A better suited title if what the book contains would be Martha Becks egotistical memoir, this book is not remotely believable, Martha insults so many minority groups with her dramatic take on her suffering as a white privileged American. The doom and gloom she writes about our beautiful world and it’s lucky people is just false. The one truth that stuck with me was her blah,blah,blah comment regarding her life choices. I’m embarrassed to say I endured this rubbish right to the last page.