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Book SynopsisWhen you get lost, you feel awful. And finding your way through life's morass can be difficult-even impossible. Do you feel weak, tired, and powerless? Dr. Deb Carlin is here to guide you. We all possess strength, inner fortitude, and confidence, but often lack the capacity to truly utilize them.
Build the Strength Within can help you make the most of your abilities, find joy, and reap the rewards of your success. Renowned psychologist, business consultant, and author Dr. Deb Carlin is known for guiding clients-both organizations and individuals-to achieve the critical integration of their personal and professional lives. By blending her personal experiences with clients and scientific data and theories that underscore the importance of a clear and intentional life plan, Carlin provides the necessary tools and exercises to turn your life around. Through a series of eleven self-assessments, readers formulate their own individual plans of action and create a unique, customizable Blueprint for a Successfully Intentional & Integrated Life. This step-by-step process enables the reader to map, build, and realize an ideal existence. Learn to build the strength within, and create your blueprint for your best life yet.
Trade ReviewPsychologist Carlin weaves her own stories of grief and struggle through this uneven but insightful self-help tome, which engages readers with the "notion of the strength within you." Building a blueprint for life is Dr. Carlin's rejoinder to the laissez-fair belief that life will just work out without any plan. Each section of the book introduces an influential thinker, such as Erikson or Maslow, and discusses how their theories can be applied to real life. Some readers may feel lost in Carlin's patchwork of quotes, material printed directly from Wikipedia (acknowledged in the book), and self-assessment exercises. Others may find her tone, at times, overly effusive, as in this quote: "The secret, and I really do mean that it is a big, huge, fat secret, is that your mind is what controls your world and directs the course of events in your life." Yet, after she explains neuroplasticityâthe malleability of the brainâreaders will realize her enthusiasm is rooted in scientific fact. In spite of some flaws, this book is set apart from others in the crowded self-help field by Carlin's personal, self-effacing style - rare is the psychologist willing to pull back the professional veil and let us see his humanity. -- Publisher's Weekly
