Martha Beck
Martha Beck
Martha Nibley Beckis an American sociologist, life coach, best-selling author, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve personal and professional goals. She holds a bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies and master's and Ph.D. degrees in sociology, both from Harvard University. Beck is the daughter of deceased LDS Church scholar and apologist, Hugh Nibley. She received national attention after publication in 2005 of her best-seller, Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth29 November 1962
CountryUnited States of America
I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight, nine hours at a time. He wouldn't drink, he wouldn't take drugs - he just danced because he had so much physical energy; he was this amazing athlete.
If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.