The Hard Questions Creating The Life You Want From The Inside Out [Paperback]

Susan Piver (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 24, 2005

Susan Piver marks the start of a revolution in self-help publishing, one that finally allows the reader to find the answers to life's great questions and challenges within themselves. The Hard Questions provides a way for readers to independently explore their deepest beliefs about relationships, friendships, family, work, money, creativity and spirituality. The responses these questions uncover become the building blocks for a revitalised life - the life of your inner dreams. The possibility of change then becomes exciting rather than daunting, you can make leaps you never imagined before and create your own unique blueprint for life and how you want to live it. It's such a simple concept, asking the right questions rather than

Editorial Reviews

Review

A nice antidote to insta-match TV-reality shows like The Bachelorette. (Time) This book of hard questions and exercises for couples is innovative and exciting. (Andrew Weil, M.D.) Susan Piver is a deeply intuitive and innovative thinker. I could not recommend her more highly. (Julia Cameron) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Susan Piver is the author of New York Times bestseller The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say 'I Do'. She is also the owner of Padma Media, which specialises in creating book packages which translate spiritual ideas ito practices anyone can do.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books (February 24, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141016663
• ISBN-13: 978-0141016665
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,386,500 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Susan Piver is the New York Times bestselling author of six books, including The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do" and the award-winning How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life, chosen as best spiritual book of 2007 by Books for a Better Life.

Piver teaches internationally on love, creativity, meditation, and spirituality for actual humans with relationships, jobs, deep yearnings, depressions, triumphs, bad hair days, and a multitude of ridiculously petty grievances. She teaches from personal experience.

Piver has been a practicing Buddhist since 1995 and graduated from a Buddhist seminary in 2004.

Her new book is The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: An Uncommon Guide to Healing, Insight, and Love, published by Simon and Schuster in January 2010.

Piver has written for Body and Soul, SELF, Oprah magazine, Buddhadharma, and the Shambhala Sun and is regularly featured in the media, including appearances on Oprah, Today, The Tyra Banks show, CNN, and in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Money, and others.

For more information, visit susanpiver.com.

Customer Reviews

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236 of 246 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great questions that lead to very deep conversations, June 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do" (Paperback)

Although I'm already very happily married, my wife and I have found this book to be incredibly stimulating. She bought a copy on impulse for a friend who's getting married, but after skimming through it, we ended up keeping a copy for ourselves and buying another for our friend. We haven't finished it yet (not by a long shot), but we have found the process of answering the questions very insightful and provocative. We have discovered things about each other that might have taken years to find out. We have had some incredibly deep and interesting (and sometimes quite difficult) conversations that have lead us to whole new levels of understanding about each other. I'm generally not a big "self help" guy, and I was definitely skeptical when she started reading the questions to me, but it really has been a fun and helpful (albeit also a little scary sometimes) process. I recommend this book highly and not just for people who are contemplating getting married. I think it's an excellent book for any two people who are involved in a committed relationship and who want to understand each other better and perhaps take their relationship to a deeper, more meaningful level.

62 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for non-evangelicals, August 30, 2002

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This review is from: The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do" (Paperback)

Many of the pre-marriage books I was looking at were written from an evangelical Christian point of view, which is certainly valuable but not what I was looking for exclusively. This book is a wonderful resource for non-evangelicals who are still looking for serious marriage preparation. It did a concise job of presenting the big issues; none are surprising, but it's a good collection of the major areas you should be addressing. It won't help you work out the little details, but helps make sure you answer the big questions that could jeopardize your relationship.

45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surprising Results!, December 19, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do" (Paperback)

I ordered this book based on seeing Susan Piver on "Oprah". Although I didn't question my love, communication with my husband needed some "work", so I thought this book could be helpful. I was extraordinarily surprised by the results. My first surprise was that my husband was so willing and eager to participate in this. My second surprise was some of the answers and information we exchanged. Some of the simpler questions that I thought would be one word answers, led to deep discussions. There is no question but that this book has been extremely helpful to us. Even without the book to guide us, we now find the exchange of honest and open conversation much easier. "The Hard Questions" is a good book!!!