Self Identity

There are a lot of personality tests out there designed to label you and put you in a particular box. But Dr. Caroline Leaf says there's much more to you than a personality profile can capture. In fact, you cannot be categorized! In this fascinating book, she takes listeners through seven steps to rediscover and unlock their unique "you quotient".

We all know we tell stories about ourselves. But as psychiatrist and neuroscientist Gregory Berns argues in The Self Delusion, we don’t just tell stories; we are the stories. Our self-identities are fleeting phenomena, continually reborn as our conscious minds receive, filter, or act on incoming information from the world and our memories.

Identity Shift gives you the tools to make meaningful change where it counts: your identity. In his sophomore publication, Anthony shares here the secrets to success, but not in the gimmicky way that listeners are used to. Innate within all of us lies the ability to shift into the identity that enables us to unlock a new level of power, perspective, passion, and productivity. This book is the concept and process to making an identity shift that will change your life.

You have been uniquely created by God to fulfill your divine purpose! In a day where so many people are frustrated, looking in different places to discover their life purpose and true meaning, you have the answer. Look no further than who you are! In Identity, TD Jakes reminds you that the key to finding your purpose is rediscovering the person you were made to be!

Self and Identity: The Basics is a jargon-free and accessible introduction that draws on key theories and ideas in social psychology to explore the ways that other people affect our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Highlighting selfhood as a function of identity, the book shows that it is our relationships with others in our social world that largely determine who we are. It considers the philosophical and psychological context in which ideas about selfhood have developed and reviews the ways that the people around us, and the groups that we belong to, affect who we are.

When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970s no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter. Today psychotherapists throughout the world acknowledge that if women are to be able to love without possessing, to find work that fulfills them, and to discover their full sexuality, they must first acknowledge their identity as separate from their mother’s. Nancy Friday’s book played a major role in that acceptance.

This classic work by psychologist and social philosopher Eric Fromm builds upon his previous popular book To Have or to Be? The Art of Being teaches us to avoid the tantalizing illusions of our consumer-driven world by learning to function as a whole person from a state of inner completeness or being. The transition from an identity of having to being creates a state of enlightened psychological and spiritual happiness.

Although a mother's mortality is inevitable, no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss until Motherless Daughters. More than 20 years later, it is still the go-to book that women of all ages look to for comfort, help, and understanding when their mother dies. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother-loss survivors, Edelman's personal story of losing her mother, and recent research in grief and psychology, Motherless Daughters reveals the shared experiences and core identity issues of motherless women.

A massive tome on this specific subject would not even begin to touch the surface of the many teachings that make up Hinduism. Indeed, this short book does not attempt in anyway to provide a succinct summary of Hindu thinking; such an undertaking would be doomed to fail in the face of millennia of collective knowledge. Yet we shall briefly examine some of the intellectual foundations upon which the whole Hindu metaphysical philosophy rests.

In a technologically-saturated era where nearly everything can be effortlessly and digitally reproduced, we're all hungry to carve out our own unique personalities, our own bespoke personae, to stand out and be seen. As the forces of social media and capitalism collide, and individualism becomes more important than ever across a wide array of industries, "branding ourselves" or actively defining our selves for others has become the norm. Yet, this phenomenon is not new. In Self-Made, Tara Isabella Burton shows us how we arrived at this moment of fervent personal-branding.

A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family's multigenerational transformation from what is called Black to what is assumed to be White. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a "Black" father from the segregated South and a "White" mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of "Black blood" makes a person Black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he'd never rigorously reflected on its foundations....

Do you know who you are? Are you comfortable with yourself? Are you happy in your own skin? Who determines who you are? How do you think of yourself? Do you love yourself? Knowing your true identity brings freedom! You are not your size, your work, your skin color, or your failures! You are not your actions, feelings, sins, habits, or marital status! You are not your disease, pain, addictions, abuse, or lifestyle! You are not your wealth, education, job, or charity work. You are special, unique, and perfect just the way you are. Having a positive self-identity is only one decision away! The...

Bestselling author Herminia Ibarra presents a model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from "career experts"—and is tailor-made for changing careers in today's uncertain world. Career transition is not a linear path toward some predetermined identity, according to Ibarra, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become. Successful reinvention comes not from deciphering and analyzing our past, but from inventing and testing our possible futures.

The path to spirituality starts with self-identity, knowing who you are, and asking questions about your existence. It takes a simple question such as: Who am I? Why am I here? It helps us understand our very own purpose in life. We often ask ourselves: Are we who we say we are or who others want us to be? It starts with the perception of self-identity and how we perceive ourselves and others. In a perfect world, I am my person, in harmony with myself and the Universe, without constraints and ties to bind or imprison me. That would be a perfect definition of freedom. In a given world, we ...

A study of identity politics through a biblical lens, looking at idolatry of the self and the elevations of sexual identity. Our culture is obsessed with identity and it has been the cause of tense interaction with (and within) the Church.

Satan knows something that most of us fail to consider: Human beings are the crown of God's creation. It is this position of honor in all the cosmos that draws Satan's ire. With thoughtful and encouraging insight into our position of value in God's eyes, Charles Kraft explores the overt attacks that destroy our self-image - and the hidden ones, too. In his powerful and fortifying book, he answers these and other questions.

Even when love's power brings out the best in us, it can expose the worst parts of ourselves. Theo Dare is a father and a fiance. He loves his two daughters, but struggles in his relationship with his fiance, Rochelle, especially when he begins lusting after Emme, the cute girl who works at his favorite golf course. As Theo's home life unravels, his relationship with Emme intensifies and he is soon faced with a decision that could have consequences in every part of his life; but not all of his decisions may be up to him. Emme is a funny, passionate, and romantic narrative that twists and ...

Him: Tyler DonovanKing of our high school. Voted “Hottest guy” and “Most likely to travel the world.” Me: Ava Walker Voted nothing at all... The least memorable of the Walker Sisters. Secretly adoring Tyler Donovan for … well, it feels like forever. But that was years ago. I never expected to see Tyler again. But here he is, seated next to me on my dream flight to Italy. Still as handsome and charming as ever. Maybe it's his rakish smile or the way his eyes seem to light up every time he looks at me . . . but somehow, I’m falling for the high school heartthrob! And . . . wait . ...

In this book, the Eastern idea of reincarnation and the Western idea of the eternal soul is united through science and modern philosophical insights. We know now through science that our bodies are made up of what we eat, and what we eat come from the Earth. We know that we have been recycled countless times in the past. I have atoms in my body that once belonged to others. I have been, not only other people, but the trees, the fish, the air, the wind, the ocean and practically everything on this planet. What we now know through science as being recycled, the Eastern sages knew intuitively ...

Most of us have been on the receiving end of rejection, a broken dream, or heartbreak. And while this is not an easy space to go through, when we are grounded in the truth, we can endure the tough times.