Your Guide to Self-actualization: How to Be Happy, Successful, and Free

by Gay Patricia Matheson

Overview

For those that are willing to roll up their sleeves and do whatever it takes to create the life that you long for, this book is for you. Ditching a life of unfulfilled potential, Your Guide to Self-actualization takes you from wishful thinking, to possibility, to actualization. This book gives you a simple step-by-step guide. As you go through the pages and begin to honestly assess yourself, you will find your insight expanding and your ability to discern sharpening. This guide challenges your perceptions and faulty beliefs, as well as highlighting characteristics that need to be strengthened. This awareness, along with the tools, skills, and strategies provided, creates the unique engine that enables you to transform your dreams into reality. This is not just for the elite few. Fulfilling our full potential and becoming self-actualized is our birthright. All it takes is a brain, a heart, and courage!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781664108547
Publisher:	Xlibris Us
Publication date:	09/30/2021
Pages:	116
Sales rank:	601,308
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

Gay was born in Vancouver, B.C. and grew up in Seattle. She's been a practicing psychotherapist and life coach in Palm Desert, California for more than two decades. She has shown hundreds of clients how to reach their full potential and create the life of their dreams.

At forty, she undertook her own journey of personal growth through individual therapy. The powerful shift in Gays' life inspired her to help others attain the same incredible results. Gay received her graduate degree from Antioch University while simultaneously completing a three year program at The Gestalt Institute of Santa Barbara.

She has appeared on many local television shows and live newscasts, California Today.com and Coachella Valley.com. Gay created and co-hosted with her husband, the radio show, "Sixty Minutes to Change." She has published numerous articles in local and national magazines.

Editorial Reviews

2023-02-08
A life coach discusses how to develop character traits that lead to more fulfilling lives.

“What makes a person self-actualized? Simple, they have created the life they want,” says Matheson, a California-based psychotherapist and coach. Such a “juicy life,” she says, can be achieved by focusing on and strengthening the “elements that go into uncovering a healthy Self, the prerequisite to achieving happiness.” Following a pair of introductory chapters, Matheson offers 18 chapters that effectively delve into one of each of these “characteristics,” while drawing on “many personal and client stories...that exemplify the transcendence process.” Characteristics include resilience (“choose how we want to respond”); intelligence (“acquire and apply knowledge and skills” instead of being “driven by an emotional component”); boundaries (which involves “having the courage to be clear about who we are and the courage to keep ourselves safe”); and imagination (“one of the most powerful, magical tools”). A final chapter, “Coming Home,” touches on recurring The Wizard of Ozreferences, with Matheson noting that Dorothy had the “ability to go home all along” but “had to discover this for herself.” Throughout, Matheson encourages readers to “honestly evaluate where you are,” and over the course of this book, she provides instructive anecdotes from her own life and those of her clients’: including one in which she stresses her own need to “appropriately time things to get the best result.” Her discussions on spirituality and dream interpretation are a bit more esoteric and may not appeal to all readers. Overall, though, Matheson puts forth a rich, guided self-help journey that aims to help readers “take the responsibility to find [their] own meaning.”

Insightful essays that successfully provide food for thought about personal growth.

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