Self-improvement: found Martha Baker

New York Times best-selling author, Martha Beck, a life coach. She has a doctoral degree (a few degrees), by Harvard University, where she deviated from the typical career path psychotherapist, professional life coach ahead of the curve - different therapists tend to people with the disease, life coaches tend to the health of people who just want to let the American people a better life, and this is their.

I found her quirky, a bit disrespectful way to improve life in the pages of O magazine "(" O "Oprah, of course), I would like to read more, so I bought a few of her books. OK, say be honest, I bought them all I have not read them all, but the diet books I have read, "The Joy Diet" (Crown, 2003), and the four-day victory "(2007 era Seoul,), is so so surprised and very interesting, I have to talk about them to anyone who is willing to listen.

Baker imitate our inner voice - "Why are you so damn fat it?" - And drawing courses, to change this dialogue. Unlike most diets, promote the diet plan (or do not eat), the the the Beck method is to leave that part of the individual. She provides additional valuable insight and practice (spirit), to help the reader understand the internal changes.

Dieters but consumption has been deprived of, and often self-loathing, she actually increased the useful information, the greater the likelihood of success, and along the way many laughed, self-deprecating personal example. She has been on a diet hell, and return to a better path.

Baker's story is very interesting background. She grew up the daughter of Mormon scholars. She earned her undergraduate graduated from Brigham Young University, where she met and married her husband John Baker, and later obtained a master's degree and doctorate from Harvard. She and John returned to teaching at the Brigham Young University closer to their families after the birth of their second child, Adam, was born with Down syndrome. They eventually separated from the Mormon church in 1993, Martha said publicly that she respected father abused her as a child.

Then, in 2004, she and her husband divorced raising three children, are openly gay. She now lives in Arizona with partners, where she continues to write and is Polaris, life coaching, consulting and seminars, the company's partners.

Since the story of her life (she was only 50 years old), reads like a soap opera, but her writing is positive, pragmatic, is simply inspiring. Despite the fact that she has been severely judged and found wanting, her heart message changes, through love and compassion - for yourself and others.

Therefore, after the end of the holidays, when you get the feeling of that chubby - want to say to yourself, "Why are you so damn fat it?" - You might be looking for Martha's convincing answer: "(I) t is not in our refrigerators, our restaurants, our mouth, our stomach, our weak will, we are basically evil and godless nature in our head. "I'm just saying ..... change your mind, you can have a whole new meaning.