Dancing on the Tightrope: Transcending the Habits of Your Mind & Awakening to Your Fullest Life

by Beth Kurland

Overview

If life can feel at times like a challenging tightrope walk, how do we face life’s difficulties yet remain resilient and open-hearted? Rather than seeking “perfect” balance, or tiptoeing on our journey, how do we learn to embrace life and “dance”, in order to live most fully? In this book, clinical psychologist Beth Kurland reveals five common obstacles—habits of the mind that get in the way of living your fullest life—and five tools to transform these obstacles into lasting inner resources for resilience, peace, and joy.
This practical yet inspirational book draws upon evidence-based psychology practices and what neuroscience teaches us about the evolution and hardwiring of the brain, as well as Beth’s own personal experience and her clinical expertise from over twenty years in the field. It addresses the challenges of being human and offers insights on how to bring greater awareness, self-compassion, meaning and authentic happiness into our lives.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155835349
Publisher:	WellBridge Books
Publication date:	10/04/2018
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	485 KB

About the Author

Beth Kurland, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been in practice since 1994, working with people across the lifespan from preschoolers through adults. With a particular passion for and expertise in mindfulness and the mind-body connection, she specializes in using mind-body strategies and other evidenced-based practices with her patients to treat a wide array of issues. Dr. Kurland graduated from Amherst College, received her doctorate from Clark University, and completed an internship at McLean Hospital and two post-doctoral fellowships, affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital in Boston. After working for five years in a psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island, she joined an outpatient practice in Norwood, MA where she has been affiliated since 2001. Dr. Kurland brings over 20 years of experience in helping others achieve well-being in their lives, and invites her readers to learn and experience the strategies she has found to be most beneficial for transformation. On her website, in addition to other resources, readers can find specific companion materials to her book, including audio meditations and printable worksheets from the book, that allow readers an opportunity to more fully incorporate the strategies from her book into their daily lives. Look for additional books by Dr. Kurland, including three children’s books, each with accompanying games, to help young children learn how to cope with difficult emotions and develop greater positivity (scheduled for release in late 2017-2018). For information, access to audios and worksheets plus more please visit Beth’s website: BethKurland.com WellBridge BooksTM is an imprint of Six Degrees Publishing GroupTM WellBridgeBooks.com

Editorial Reviews

"This book will help you develop your inner resources, and the confidence that you can find balance and joy amidst all seasons of life. Highly recommended!" --Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge

"Dr. Kurland provides a penetrating analysis of our Stone Age brain and its challenges in the twenty-first century. Then with great clarity and heart, she explains how to deal with these and be more mindful, resilient, and happy right in the middle of everyday life. Her voice is warm and friendly, like chatting with a good friend who happens to be a wonderful therapist. A useful, beautiful book." --Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

"Kudos to Beth Kurland for penning an illuminating book. Read it, follow the sage advice. It will open and expand your heart and help you embrace this precious life to its fullest." --Sanjiv Chopra, Best Selling Author, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

"An honest, accessible and compassionate manual for relaxing the grip of our brain-based reactivity in daily life . . . Beth Kurland illuminates the self-protective habits that make us unhappy, and guides readers in cultivating kinder practices as antidotes to these reactive patterns our brains bring our way." --Mitch Abblett, Ph.D., author of The Five Hurdles to Happiness...and the Mindful Path for Overcoming Them

"Dancing on the Tightrope is ultimately a book about hope. Kurland masterfully weaves together practical exercises, personal narrative, brain science, and concrete examples from her work as a therapist to show us that we have the power to change the way we show up in the world. --David Ronka, Presenter, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Author of The Flipside of Fear

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