Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What by Martha Beck

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Synopsis

Martha Beck's work as a life coach has been featured on Oprah and has earned her accolades in outlets from National Public Radio to USA Today. More important, her trademark wisdom, empathy, and humor have changed thousands of lives, helping people who felt disconnected from their true sense of purpose to locate meaning in their lives and change.

Now, in the tradition of her bestseller Finding Your Own North Star, Martha Beck reconnects listeners with their authentic hopes, needs, and desires in Steering by Starlight. Beck brings together cutting-edge research in psychiatry and neurology, practical exercises and the step-by-step process she uses with her private clients to offer powerful new methods for solving problems that beset every one of us.

Whether you're seeking better relationships, more focused career direction, specific fitness goals, or a more harmonious lifestyle, Steering by Starlight's colorful and touching anecdotes, case studies and exercises will give you the tools you need to become your own guide and point the way to an authentic, rewarding life.

Lucille M. Boone - Library Journal

In this self-help guide with a fantasy-fiction twist, sociologist, life coach, and O: The Oprah Magazine columnist Beck continues in the spirit of her earlier work, Finding Your Own North Star. Here, her clients' stories illustrate the progress and pitfalls of finding one's purpose in life. Their journeys, sparked by challenging exercises, are adventurous, and the narrative is hilarious. Beck also incorporates themes and outcomes that she explored earlier in her memoirs Expecting Adam and Leaving the Saints. Much of her advice, laid out in a three-stage process, may initially seem contrary, counterintuitive, or repetitive (e.g., telling your life story backwards). In the first stage, readers identify goals and eliminate obstacles. In the second, they envision the future, find messages in dreams, and forge a middle path between the past and the future. And in the final stage, they live their destiny, observing coincidences, working miracles, and breaking new trails. A concluding chapter shows the process at work in Beck's own life. While the author's New Age spirituality may put off some, her writing style will appeal to fantasy and adventure fans, not to mention the sizable audience who reads her O column.

Biography

Martha Beck, Ph.D., is a life coach and monthly columnist for O: The Oprah Magazine. She is the author of the bestsellers Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live and the memoir Expecting Adam. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.