Trusting Yourself: Growing Your Self-Awareness, Self-Confidence, and Self-Reliance

By M.J. Ryan

Book Overview

Who Would I Be, What Would I Do, If I Trusted Myself . . .

In her warm and inimitable way M.J. Ryan guides us to look at our lives from a different perspective. To imagine what they would be like if we practiced an attitude of self-trust, if we received the gifts trusting ourselves might give us.

In an age of constant media messages and so-called expert advice telling us to be richer, thinner, smart, and faster, we're all dogged with worry and self-doubt. Bestselling author M.J. Ryan believes we've become so dependent on experts to tell us how to live our lives that we listen to everyone except ourselves.

In Trusting Yourself, Ryan identifies the answers to feeling swept away by life: we already have what it takes to cope. We can learn how to tap into the wisdom inside us by cultivating self-awareness, self-confidence, and self-reliance.

Learn how to quiet the critics--inside and out--and trust yourself instead. If you accept that we learn through trial and error, if you believe that we each have unique strengths and that not one of us has to have them all, if you realize that labels only get in the way, then your self-trust will grow, your worries will shrink, and you'll find happiness and success with a lot less effort.

This is a life coach in a book that readers can turn to again and again when stress or worry takes over to find more peaceful, saner lives every day.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573246050
• ISBN13: 9781573246057
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Conari Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Great book

I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs to make a tough decision they are facing. This really helped me make the right choice.

More for less - hmmmm

Definitely on my recommended book list. A must read for women in business. Susan Bock The Success Coach for Women in Business www.SusanBockSolutions.com

Self-Guided Marvel

Trusting Yourself is what every person needs who has been in a family or professional environment of distrust. Ryan is intuitive and straightforward in her insights. This read is a golden opportunity to stand up straighter through life's constant winds of adversity.

The Answers Are Within Us

I've been quite pleased with Ryan's Happiness Makeover, so I was glad to find this book by her, Trusting Yourself. She reminds us that we already know many of the answers in life and just aren't applying them. Learning to tune into our own instincts and knowledge from our life experience is a reminder we can all use. Our lives become so packed, that we seldom stop and really think and examine and let our minds and hearts tune into what we know. I thank Ms Ryan for getting us to tune into this.

Don't trust me - read this book for yourself!

I have been a fan of Ms. Ryan's for some time now. Her writings on kindness have been quite influential on the values I cherish and how I aspire to live my life. In her new book, "Trusting Yourself", she addresses what I believe is an epidemic in our "future shock" culture - people feeling overwhelmed, perfectionistic, self-doubting, defective, and dependent on experts to tell us how to live. Reading her (as usual) insightful and empathic words, I have come back to my senses and to my inherent common sense. A much-needed balm for our frantic psyches in these challenging times. Highly recommended reading for anyone who's wavered in their faith in their own abilities and passions!