Friday, November 11, 2005

Radical Honesty...

Radical Honesty is not a kinder, gentler self-help book. Brad Blanton, a psychotherapist and expert on stress management, explodes the myths, superstitions, and lies by which we live. He shows us how stress comes not from the environment, but from the self-built jail of the mind. What keeps us in our self-built jails is lying. "We all lie like hell," Blanton says. "It wears us out...it is the major source of all human stress. It kills us." Not telling our friends, lovers, spouses, or bosses about what we do, feel, or think keeps us locked in that jail. The way out is to get good at telling the truth. Blanton provides the tools we can use to escape the jail of the mind.

Buy the book at Amazon.com.

2 comments:

B. said...

You might also want to check out the book "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz. Excellent book and he talks a lot about being truthful.

Don Iannone, D.Div., Ph.D. said...

B,

I've read it, and it's great, but also REALLY hard to live up to. Would you agree?

Don

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