Walking the Tightrope: Solutions for Achieving Life Balance Without a Net [Paperback]

Erica Orloff (Author), Kathy Levinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 12, 2004

We're more wired than ever: cell phones on our hips, laptops, email, instant messaging. The killer apps are killing us. Technology was supposed to make it easier for us, but we are more out of balance and out of touch with the things in life that are most important to us than we were a decade ago. Orloff and Levinson will help readers to find that sense of balance so they can handle the highwire act of living and working without flaming out.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Praise for Walking the Tightrope "The bewildering pace in which we live today seems contrary to a healthy rate of human development. Those in the know will come to an 'age of reconciliation' where we will create a balance between ourselves and other aspects of our lives, be it job, marriage, finances, or spirituality. Walking the Tightrope provides a stepwise guide to this change. The authors gently, through their own self disclosure, support the reader in a realistic commitment to a balance of the 'self.'" -Dr. Phil Heller, Clinical and Forensic Psychologist "In their new book, Walking the Tightrope, Erica Orloff and Kathy Levinson are daring high wire artists who offer hope on a rope by helping us put the balance back into our three-ring circus lives. They show us how to map success and to chart life courses that are fulfilling and dynamic. By helping us clear up our fuzzy thinking, they focus us on creating solutions that become foundational blueprints for our new lives. If you are at the end of your rope, don't despair because Orloff and Levinson throw us a lifeline with their down-to-earth, commonsense approach to finding exciting equilibriums for our hearts and souls and for making change last for us and the ones we love." -Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D., Assistant to the President for Academic Affairs, Nova Southeastern University "This book is about simplifying life's complexities to find balance in our harried, fast-paced world. Orloff and Levinson guide us in how to actively take control of what we can control with concrete strategies, mindfulness, and respect for ourselves." -Edmund C. Neuhaus, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School Director, and Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program and Associate Director, Psychology Training, McLean Hospital "What a large, therapeutic journey to capture life and its core ... Not only are the authors clear and organized in their plan for balance, while simultaneously teasing through the fluff, but their personal vignettes of the numerous 'insane Kodak moments' we all share has given me room to breath, anew. I am comforted knowing my journey for balance is a shared world view." -Marcy Sirkin, Ph.D., Family Therapist

From the Back Cover

"Orloff and Levinson guide us in how to actively take control of what we cancontrol with concrete strategies, mindfulness, and respect for ourselves."
--EDMUND C. NEUHAUS, Ph.D., HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND MCLEAN HOSPITAL

Life out of balance?
Stop worrying about it. Start fixing it.
Discover what you're already doing right...and how to do more of it.
Start taking small steps in the right direction...right this minute.
No more fuzzy thinking. No more blame.
No more feeling sorry for yourself.
This book's solution-focused strategies will energize you, invigorate you,help you get beyond burnout to balance and on to the life you've always wanted.

"The bewildering pace in which we live today seems contrary to a healthy rate of human development. Those in the know will come to an 'age of reconciliation' where we will create a balance between ourselves and other aspects of our lives, be it job, marriage, finances, or spirituality. Walking the Tightrope provides a stepwise guide to this change. The authors gently, through their own self disclosure, support the reader in a realistic commitment to a balance of the 'self.'"
--Dr. Phil Heller, Clinical and Forensic Psychologist

"In their new book, Walking the Tightrope, Erica Orloff and Kathy Levinson are daring high wire artists who offer hope on a rope by helping us put the balance back into our three-ring circus lives. They show us how to map success and to chart life courses that are fulfilling and dynamic."
--Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D., Assistant to the President for Academic Affairs, Nova Southeastern University

"What a large, therapeutic journey to capture life and its core . . . the authors' personal vignettes of the numerous 'insane Kodak moments' we all share has given me room to breathe anew. I am comforted knowing my journey for balance is a shared world view."
--Marcy Sirkin, Ph.D., Family Therapist

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall (March 12, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131420240
• ISBN-13: 978-0131420243
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,669,158 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Erica Orloff is the author of over 20 novels for adults, young adults, and (as Erica Kirov) middle-grade readers. She is a native New Yorker, but currently resides in Virginia with her family and menagerie of pets. Despite venturing South, she still roots for the Yankees. In her nonexistent free time, she enjoys knitting, playing poker, and hunting for Buddha statues for her collection.