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The Art of Balance: Staying Sane in an Insane World
The Battle for Balance is a life and death struggle. Stay balanced, and we enjoy life to the fullest. Lose balance, and life gets hard.
In The Art of Balance: Staying Sane in an Insane World, life coach and psychotherapist David J. Bookbinder shows you how to stay on top of the forces that unbalance us, recover quickly if you get knocked down, and be prepared whenever life's unbalancers throw you a curve ball.
The Art of Balance doesn't just "give a man a fish," so he can eat that day. It teaches you how to fish. Time-tested self-help tools and techniques are integrated into a system that helps you create your own tools, develop your own techniques, refine your own strategies--and thereby become the master of your destiny. You'll learn:
- The 6-step process for recovering and maintaining balance
- How to recognize when your balance is shaky--before you fall
- How to boost your resilience and stay steady on your feet
- How to fend off unbalancers if they strike
When you follow the steps revealed in The Art of Balance, you're sure to move forward with a spring in your step that won't get unsprung.
In The Art of Balance: Staying Sane in an Insane World, life coach and psychotherapist David J. Bookbinder shows you how to stay on top of the forces that unbalance us, recover quickly if you get knocked down, and be prepared whenever life's unbalancers throw you a curve ball.
The Art of Balance doesn't just "give a man a fish," so he can eat that day. It teaches you how to fish. Time-tested self-help tools and techniques are integrated into a system that helps you create your own tools, develop your own techniques, refine your own strategies--and thereby become the master of your destiny. You'll learn:
- The 6-step process for recovering and maintaining balance
- How to recognize when your balance is shaky--before you fall
- How to boost your resilience and stay steady on your feet
- How to fend off unbalancers if they strike
When you follow the steps revealed in The Art of Balance, you're sure to move forward with a spring in your step that won't get unsprung.
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170 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 30, 2018
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About the author
David J. Bookbinder
21 books39 followersDavid J. Bookbinder is a life coach, writer, and photographer. He lives and works north of Boston, Massachusetts.
His award-winning Flower Mandala images were inspired by the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe and the flower photographs of Harold Feinstein, with whom he briefly studied. David holds Masters degrees in Counseling Psychology and Creative Writing and is a regular presenter at the Creativity & Madness conference in Santa Fe, NM.
In addition to Street People: Invisible New York Made Visible and Street People Portfolio: Invisible New York Made Visual , he is the author of The Art of Balance: Staying Sane in an Insane World , Paths to Wholeness: Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas , two coloring books for adults based on his Flower Mandalas ( 52 Flower Mandalas and 52 (more) Flower Mandalas), as well as a book on American folk music and three books on computer software.
His award-winning Flower Mandala images were inspired by the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe and the flower photographs of Harold Feinstein, with whom he briefly studied. David holds Masters degrees in Counseling Psychology and Creative Writing and is a regular presenter at the Creativity & Madness conference in Santa Fe, NM.
In addition to Street People: Invisible New York Made Visible and Street People Portfolio: Invisible New York Made Visual , he is the author of The Art of Balance: Staying Sane in an Insane World , Paths to Wholeness: Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas , two coloring books for adults based on his Flower Mandalas ( 52 Flower Mandalas and 52 (more) Flower Mandalas), as well as a book on American folk music and three books on computer software.
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January 31, 2018
This is a must-read for anyone struggling with emotional challenges from either internal turmoil or exogenous events that seem to be out of our control. The author artfully provides not just insights from decades of diverse experiences but practical exercises that one can keep in their toolbox and reference when needed. In this regard The Art of Balance is less a one-time self help read and more of a reference and exercise companion that you will want to keep as a partner. It will become more valuable each time you refer back to and practice a particular exercise. Ultimately the book can positively morph you the more you engage with it and possibly become a transformative part of your inner safeguard system.
January 30, 2018
The Art of Balance is a very different kind of self-help book--profound and beautifully written for easy application to a variety of problems. It I s also delightful to look at, with charming and artful drawings to illustrate the many areas of our too-often unbalanced lives. Bookbinder is a skilled writer, who uses a coach's voice and his expertise as a psychotherapist to bring the reader to a balance that will make life's journey easier, happier and more productive. Bravo to a book that really helps!
March 20, 2019
Self help guide The Art of Balance by David J. Bookbinder is well organized and easy to read. It provides a lot of stress-relieving and almost spiritual insights through a series of psychotherapy tools. I especially liked the cutesy stick figure characters and quotes that helped illustrate Bookbinder’s points. This is a great guide for anyone pining for a more balanced life or perhaps a bit of self reflection.
September 7, 2024
A quick and easy read, navigating struggles in the real world through the art of real balance.
March 1, 2018
I have been reading psychological books for over fifty years. I divide them into three categories: academic, self-help/inspirational and moronic. My favorite academic book is Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, even though most of his concepts have been debunked over the last fifty years. Favorite self-help/inspirational is Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, enhanced by my experience of actually taking a class from him in graduate school. Then there are the many moronic ones I have started that tend to boast of cosmic connections that soon become weighed down in silliness, over-ripe imaginations and folly.
David Bookbinder’s submission into the pantheon of psychology books is The Art of Balance. I liked the book, very much. Freud invented the Id, Ego and Superego; Bookbinder created the more useful Balancer, UnBalancer, and ReBalancer. By these devices, he is able to define and externalize life’s slings and arrows and also our personal misperceptions and misconceptions to make them manageable. He also presents practical tools to try when needed. The “What to do" sections tell you exactly what to do. Readers will say, “That makes sense,” and “I can do that.”
I cannot recall a better organized, more practical, more useful and better-written self-help book. It is also compact, which makes everything even better. I also enjoyed the many delightful and helpful illustrations. This is the kind of book that could be read in high schools with great effect and I guess half the adult population could benefit from reading it too. I highly recommend David Bookbinder’s, The Art of Balance to anyone seeking better clarity for living a well-adjusted life.
David Bookbinder’s submission into the pantheon of psychology books is The Art of Balance. I liked the book, very much. Freud invented the Id, Ego and Superego; Bookbinder created the more useful Balancer, UnBalancer, and ReBalancer. By these devices, he is able to define and externalize life’s slings and arrows and also our personal misperceptions and misconceptions to make them manageable. He also presents practical tools to try when needed. The “What to do" sections tell you exactly what to do. Readers will say, “That makes sense,” and “I can do that.”
I cannot recall a better organized, more practical, more useful and better-written self-help book. It is also compact, which makes everything even better. I also enjoyed the many delightful and helpful illustrations. This is the kind of book that could be read in high schools with great effect and I guess half the adult population could benefit from reading it too. I highly recommend David Bookbinder’s, The Art of Balance to anyone seeking better clarity for living a well-adjusted life.
March 21, 2018
Loved this little no-nonsense book on the art of navigating our stressful culture through balancing our left brain overload with mindful and creative right brain activities. Easy-to-understand stick figures illustrate the concepts, and lots of exercises and practices offer the reader a menu of stress management techniques to choose from. I went out to buy a coloring book right away.
May 15, 2018
Rebalancing your life
I really enjoyed this and also came away with quite a few things which I want to start incorporating into my life, so I can learn to use rebalancer myself. Now I know the signs to look for when things are beginning to become unraveled.
I really enjoyed this and also came away with quite a few things which I want to start incorporating into my life, so I can learn to use rebalancer myself. Now I know the signs to look for when things are beginning to become unraveled.
October 20, 2018
Great name for an author! Another good one of his.
February 12, 2020
It's a really good book to try out things for anixety and I have tried a few with somewhat success.
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