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Title: Steering by Starlight
Subtitle: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What
Author: Martha Beck
Narrator: Martha Beck
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-13-08
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 385 votes
Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration
Publisher's Summary:
Bringing together cutting-edge research in psychiatry, neurology, and related fields in an accessible, substantive, original way, Beck offers powerful new methods for solving the problems that beset ordinary people. Using her trademark wisdom, empathy, and engaging style, she connects listeners with personal coping strategies that are not yet widely available as she helps them overcome the alienation that is causing them to lose sight of their own North Star.
Dr. Beck identifies three stages along the path to recapturing a satisfying life:
Members Reviews:
Excellent life coach
I have listened to A LOT of self-help (and now have a love/hate relationship w/ the genre). Do not be afraid, because Martha Beck is one of the best. When self-help is good, it's wise and inspiring, and this book is that...
Life changing, and I'm not one to say that lightly
Would you listen to Steering by Starlight again? Why?
Yes. I have listened to it many times. The advice is encouraging and uplifting. I listen again when I need a boost.
Who was your favorite character and why?
NA: Nonfiction
What about Martha Becks performance did you like?
Her humor and authenticity.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The concept of "shackles on and shackles off" and the "inner lizard."
Any additional comments?
This book struck a cord with me. As a self-help book, it was just the right balance of practical and compassionate: Not too new-agey, but also not "how to succeed in business and get insanely rich". I felt compelled to write this review as I gave another of Dr. Beck's books a luke-warm review. I wanted to make sure that she got her proper due for this book and many of her other works. Thank you, Dr. Beck!!
This book is life-changing!
I never thought of myself as a self-help book kind of person. It's true I've bought my share of them, whether through various recommendations during my years of therapy, or out of some misguided hope that the answer to all my problems lay in one of them. If anything, I would have thought of myself as a jaded cynic. I frustrated my therapist with my resistance to "exercises". And then I came across Martha Beck.
I'm not a fan of Oprah. I derided friends of mine who dared recommend "The Secret" to me. I actually first came across an earlier book of Beck's, "Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live", while browsing the self-help/self-development/self-whatever section at Borders. The title of the book was exactly what I was looking for, but even better I was engross in it as soon as I started reading it in the bookstore.
This weekend I had a road trip to take, so I looked Beck up here on Audible and came across this book. I downloaded, and I actually was glad when I got stuck in traffic because I could listen to more of it. The book truly resonated with me, even though--from the new-agey sound of it, I wouldn't have guessed. It is well-grounded, backed by scientific research, skeptical, intuitive, and most importantly self-deprecatingly funny. In a way, the book is not ground-breaking; it sort of validates notions one has suspected all along. But perhaps in precisely that way, it is life-altering.
