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

Keith Ablow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2007

Dr. Keith Ablow, bestselling author and host of a new daily one-hour daytime-TV talk show, presents his first self-help book. Based on more than 20 years of clinical experience and highlighting stories from his own practice, Ablow shows how ignoring or burying painful memories and experiences can negatively affect every aspect of our lives, and he presents strategies to help the reader transform the pain of the past into the power of the future. In a world where short-term talk therapy and medication are the latest trends to "fixing" an unhappy life, Ablow's message is controversial. But though examining the past can be daunting, LIVING THE TRUTH is as comforting and rewarding as it is transformative. And through Ablow's fine storytelling skills, empathetic voice, and straight-up advice, the experience of reading this extraordinary book becomes the first step to living a truly authentic life.

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About the Author

Keith Ablow, M.D., is a Brown University and Johns Hopkins trained psychiatrist, writer, and television personality. He is a contributing editor of Good Housekeeping and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, and many other publications. He has appeared as an expert on television shows including Oprah and Good Morning America, and he is a frequent guest on Tyra, Court TV, and other shows. Ablow is married and the father of two.

From AudioFile

The author is a kind and genuine promoter of the belief that satisfaction in life must begin with an honest look at who we are and how we became who we are. A psychotherapy advocate, Ablow shows how facing old injuries can remove blocks to happiness and free up creative energy. Hes especially articulate about the ways people avoid their issues by numbing themselves with denial, repression, alcohol, irresponsible spending, or avoidance of intimacy with others. In a pleasant baritone, Ablow manages the mood and tempo of his reading like a pro yet never wavers from sounding empathetic toward his listeners. A printable worksheet will help listeners understand their coping mechanisms and aid them in reworking problem areas. T.W. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1ST edition (May 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316017817
• ISBN-13: 978-0316017817
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #478,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This was a life altering book for me, July 3, 2007

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A. Goya (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty (Hardcover)

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.

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From pain to power, May 28, 2007

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Joshua Resnek (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty (Hardcover)

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.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mr. Bob, July 14, 2007

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Bob "Life Detective" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty (Audio CD)

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.