Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Muse, the brain sensing headband that helps you meditate and sleep and meditation studio, the five-star app.

I'm Patricia Carpus.

You can find lots of great information and deals on Muse at choosemuse.com.

So check that out when you have a minute.

I was very excited to interview today's guest Martha Beck. She's a Ph.D., Harvard-trained sociologist, world-renowned coach,

and New York Times bestselling author. Martha's published nine nonfiction books, one novel, and more

than 200 magazine articles. Wow. She's also known

as Oprah's life coach. Her most recent book, The Way of Integrity, Finding Your Path to

Your True Self, is an Oprah Book Club selection and a New York Times bestseller. In The Way of

Integrity, Beck presents a process that

anyone can use to find a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a way to be free of mental

suffering. Much of what plagues us, negative habits and patterns, too much people pleasing,

staying in stale relationships or careers, happen because we're out of touch with our true selves, with our true nature.

This signals a split from integrity, she says, which very often is unconscious and fueled by cultural norms and traditions that lead us in directions that aren't,

in fact, right for us. Getting back in sync with what's true for us brings us into alignment,

and this is where we become our best selves. Meditation has been a huge part of our own journey

in bringing her life into integrity.

Now, the amazing Martha back.

Martha, it is a pleasure and an honor to have you on Untangled today.

Thank you for being here.

The honor is all mine. And hello out there to all you wonderful listeners.

Yay.

...