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Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
: :'The North Star -- Stella Polaris -- is a fixed point that can always be used to figure out which way you're headed. Explorers and mariners can depend on Polaris 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. You may think you're utterly lost, ...
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Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!
: :In the tradition of her bestseller, Finding Your Own North Star, Oprah Magazine columnist Martha Beck reconnects readers with their best destinies. Described as one of the best-known life coaches in America in media such as Psychology Today, NPR, and USA Today, Martha Beck has demonstrated a rare gift for helping people whose lives have gone off course find their way back to authentic, rewarding lives. Now, in Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!, Martha Beck describes the step-by-step process she ...
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The Four-Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace
: :The woman Psychology Today calls 'the best-known life coach in America' shatters the myth that willpower is an effective weight-loss tool and introduces a revolutionary approach to lifetime leanness based on a series of '4-day wins' that work with any weight-loss program.This paperback edition includes a workbook where readers can complete the book's many exercises, making it even easier to follow the program!
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Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
: :The 'slyly ironic, frequently hilarious'(Time) memoir about angels, academics, and a boy named Adam...A national bestseller and an important reminder that life is what happens when you're making other plans.Put aside your expectations. This 'rueful, riveting, piercingly funny' (Julia Cameron) book is written by a Harvard graduate--but it tells a story in which hearts trump brains every time. It's a tale about mothering a Down syndrome child that opts for sass over sap, and it's a book of heavenly visions and inexplicable phenomena that's ...
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The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life
: :Welcome to The Joy Diet, a menu of ten behaviors you can add to your way of living and thinking to enhance every day’s journey through the unpredictable terrain of your existence. You can add these behaviors gradually and watch your life become steadily more vivid and satisfying. Or you can go on a “crash Joy Diet” to help you navigate life’s emergencies.The ten menu items are:• Nothing: Do nothing for fifteen minutes a day. Stop mindlessly chasing goals and figure out which goals ...
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Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My 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 in an existence framed by the strictest code of conduct. As an adult, she moved to the east coast, outside of her Mormon enclave for the first time in her life. When her son was born with Down syndrome, Martha and her husband left their graduate programs at Harvard to return to Utah, where they knew the supportive Mormon ...
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Wisdom from Finding Your Own North Star
: :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 in an existence framed by the strictest code of conduct. As an adult, she moved to the east coast, outside of her Mormon enclave for the first time in her life. When her son was born with Down syndrome, Martha and her husband left their graduate programs at Harvard to return to Utah, where they knew the supportive Mormon ...
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Collaborative Teaming: Teachers' Guides To Inclusive Practices (Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices)
: :Collaborative teaming is the glue that holds an inclusive school together, but most teachers don't get the training they need to put this critical process to work.
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Breaking Point:: Why Women Fall Apart and How They Can Re-create Their Lives
: :Much as Gail Sheehy did in Passages, Dr. Beck articulates a common signpost in women's lives, explaining the five stages which characterize how women arrive at their breaking point, how their age defines their experience, and how they can transcend crisis and move on to redefine their lives.
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Follow Your North Star
: :Here is Martha Beck’s all-in-one guide for recognizing your life’s purpose, staying on course, and reaching your fullest potential for happiness. On Follow Your North Star, Beck offers straightforward-yet-simple tools for 'charting' your life path by following the unchangeable 'true north' markers of your life.
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