Martha Beck
Martha Beck
Martha Nibley Beckis an American sociologist, life coach, best-selling author, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve personal and professional goals. She holds a bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies and master's and Ph.D. degrees in sociology, both from Harvard University. Beck is the daughter of deceased LDS Church scholar and apologist, Hugh Nibley. She received national attention after publication in 2005 of her best-seller, Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth29 November 1962
CountryUnited States of America
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.
Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.
If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.
The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life.
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.