Newtown Bookshop Bringing Best Selling Author To Bucks

NORTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP, PA — The Newtown Bookshop will bring bestselling author Martha Beck to the Free Library of Northampton Township to celebrate the paperback release of her new book, "The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self.”

The special event begins at 6 p.m. on Monday, January 30 with a portion of the proceeds going to the Free Library of Northampton Township. The purchase of the book is the price of the ticket.

In her new book, “The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self,” Beck explains why integrity — needed now more than ever in these tumultuous times — is the key to a meaningful and joyful life.

As Beck says in the book, “Integrity is the cure for psychological suffering. Period.”

The book is a step-by-step guide anyone can use to find a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. It explains that “culture teaches us specific rules for navigating society successfully, and in following these rules, we begin to split ourselves from our essential beings, our deepest truths. That’s what it looks like to lose our integrity, and to regain it is to recover that deep truth and become whole again ­— even if it risks alienation from others.”

To help find our way back to full integrity, Beck uses an unlikely guidebook, Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” which she calls “the first great self-help book.”

Using Dante’s classic hero’s journey as a framework, Beck breaks down the process of attaining personal integrity into small, manageable steps, and demonstrates how to read our internal signals to lead us towards our true path.

Beck spent a decade at Harvard before becoming a life coach, and is also a renowned public speaker. Using techniques developed with hundreds of her clients, Beck brings her expertise as a social scientist, life coach, and human being to help readers uncover what integrity looks like in their own lives.

She takes readers on a spiritual adventure that will not only change the direction of our lives, but bring us to a place of genuine happiness.

Beck is a bestselling author, life coach, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve greater levels of personal and professional success. She is the author of nine non-fiction books and one novel, and has been a longtime contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine. She holds a PhD in sociology from Harvard.

To reserve for the January 30 event, click here.