Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty

by Keith Ablow

Book Overview

The noted psychiatrist and host of "The Dr. Keith Ablow Show" reveals how honesty about one's life can unleash full, exciting potential. Abridged. 3 CDs.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316017817
• ISBN13: 9780316017817
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Mr. Bob

I found the book very helpful in getting to source of unresolved unconscious conflicts of the past. In uncovering what he calls our life story clues... Dr. Ablow is able to (with the help of the work book) take the reader to the past and then begin to understand the mystery of why we behave the way we do now. It help me to stop running and look directly at the Truth the life story clues unmasked and then discover the personal freedom that take place. It's what we truly desire. "Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty" is an inexpensive way to get started down the road to the past. This book can improve the quality of anybody's life (no mater what you uncover) as it did mine... No Doubt.

This was a life altering book for me

I starting reading this book thinking I was not in denial, but I wanted to see what it had to say. I did the exercises even if I didn't see the point. Well I found out although I had not cleared out any memories, I had repainted some seemingly small details that made a huge difference when I saw them for what they are. This book has helped me to start working on things that I really didn't know were a problem, and it has brought significant change into my life. For the first time I can remember in my 38 years, I have a sense of peace and I am starting to feel comfortable in my own skin, which is something I didn't think was possible. I still have a long way to go on the road I am on, but before this book I didn't even know the road was there. This book takes you through the steps to dig into what things have caused you pain and see them for what they are. Then it gives you the steps to overcome the limits you placed on yourself due to what you have uncovered. This is not a feel good cover up, this is the real thing that will help deep within yourself. It isn't always easy, but it is absolutely worth it.

From pain to power

Dr. Keith Ablow's tome, "Living the Truth," isn't just another self-help book. It breaks new ground, offers new assumptions, and for many of those who will read it and listen to its voice, there is hope for a better future. The truth can often be a terrible weapon of aggression. Ablow's book, with the center of his thinking bound to the idea that no one has a perfect life, that you must face your conflicts head on, that everyone living on this earth is experiencing one form of pain or another, is a guide to gaining insight in the understanding that gaining insight puts us on the road to where we want to be. Everything about Ablow's own experience as a vulnerable human being has contributed to his belief about life. He isn't the psychiatrist as God or Nitzche. He lives the truth as he has come to know it, as he believes others might benefit from it. He shows you the way. Ablow's premises are free of politics and cheap philosophy. He goes to the center, to the pain we feel, to the regrets that hound us, to the inadequacies we try to hide. Ablow is the ultimate psychiatrist. He is the ultimate humanist. Living the Truth can be a road map to a life without pain. It won't be a road map to a perfect life because there is no such thing as a perfect life.Ablow helps us to come as close as we can to mastering our psychic existence in this vexing thing we call our lives.

Best Self-Help Book Ever

This book is the real thing. I am considering buying a few copies for all my friends who keep claiming they want to change but never do. I found Ablow's process difficult, but life changing. For the first time in my life I believe I did help myself.

Excellent book!!

This book has helped me deal with a very troubled past, taking me places I didn't remember, reminded me of the reason I have carried so much pain around and helping me over come it!!!