Martha Beck is a bestselling author, life coach, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve greater levels of personal and professional success. She is the author of nine nonfiction books and one novel, and has been a longtime contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine.  Her most recent book is The Way of Integrity:  Finding the Path to Your True Self 

Eric and Martha discuss how to live in integrity and find the path to your true self.

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Martha Beck and I Discuss The Path to Your True Self and …

• Her book, The Way of Integrity:  Finding the Path to Your True Self\

How what we often want is influenced by our culture

Asking ourselves what we yearn for as opposed to what you want

The repetitive cycle of thoughts that cause fear

How our culture reinforces the fear 

Learning to move from fear to curiosity

How humor and using your senses can turn down our fear

The dilemma of when our nature conflicts with our culture

Psychological suffering comes from the thoughts we choose to believe

Why suffering is needed to make us pay attention and can actually be our ally

Understanding that we have different “internal parts” that make up our whole self (Ref. to Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems

Her New Year’s resolution to not lie for a year and the healing that she found

Navigating her way out of the Mormon religion

How switching our identity to a material self to a limitless state of being brings joy

Learning to imagine the good that will come from facing our discomfort

The power of small, incremental, and repetitive actions to change your life

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