Martha Beck on The Path to Your True Self

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Jul 5, 2022

Martha Beck, a bestselling author and life coach, shares insights on achieving personal and professional success. She discusses the importance of aligning with your true self amidst societal pressures and fear, emphasizing the transformative power of humor and curiosity. Beck also explores the interplay of identity and spiritual oneness, revealing how honesty and integrity pave the way for healing. Through personal anecdotes, she highlights the journey of breaking free from cultural constraints and nurturing authenticity.

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ANECDOTE

Focus on Helping

Martha Beck describes being interviewed in a garage for her first book.
She refused to prioritize selling books over being present and helpful to the audience.

INSIGHT

Wants vs. Yearnings

People often confuse what they yearn for with what culture dictates they should want.
Asking what keeps you awake at night can reveal your true yearnings (e.g., joy, peace).

INSIGHT

Shifting from Fear to Curiosity

Humor and sensory experiences engage the right brain.
This can counteract fear and shift focus from negativity to curiosity and presence.

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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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