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

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Chapter 1: The Pain-to-Power Principle : Part 1
Based on more than 20 years of clinical experience and highlighting stories from his own practice, Keith Ablow shows how ignoring or burying painful memories and experiences can negatively affect every aspect of our lives, and he presents strategies

Chapter 1: The Pain-to-Power Principle : Part 2
The first time we met, I could see that Nicole wasn't just well put together - she was perfectly put together. Everything was in its place - her designer clothes, her jewelry, her makeup, her hair.

Chapter 1: The Pain-to-Power Principle : Part 3
My skin turned to gooseflesh, as it does whenever the past becomes palpable in the present. It was clear to me now why Kelley leaving for design school had triggered Nicole's depression. Kelley was living out dreams that Nicole had once had for herself

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.

Keith Ablow, M.D., host of The Dr. Keith Ablow Show, is a Brown University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine graduate who trained in psychiatry at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. He is a contributing editor at Good Housekeeping and has published articles on personal growth for the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, and Cosmopolitan.

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