Dr. Martha Beck
“Martha Beck has a rare ability to see the world with wisdom and heart. She is a teacher in the truest sense of the word.”
—Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger and The Dance of Connection
Dr. Martha Beck is a New York Times bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. She has spent a lifetime offering powerful, practical, and entertaining teachings that help people improve every aspect of their lives. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.”
Dr. Beck’s published works include several self-help books and memoirs, including her latest instant New York Times Bestseller, Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose. Her other New York Times and international bestsellers include Finding Your Own North Star, The Joy Diet, Expecting Adam and the Oprah’s Book Club selection, The Way of Integrity which explores why “integrity”—being in harmony with ourselves—is the key to a meaningful and joyful life. She has also published over 150 magazine articles, including almost two decades of monthly columns for O, The Oprah Magazine.
Beck is a passionate and engaging speaker, known for her characteristic blending of science, spirituality, and humor. As “the best-known life coach in America” (NPR, USA Today), she has spoken to audiences around the world on stage and on The Oprah Show, Good Morning America, and many other television programs.
“If you want to be like Oprah Winfrey—and who doesn’t—we have two words for you: Martha Beck.”
—Boston Globe
Every year, Dr. Beck spends several weeks each year in South Africa, running wilderness-based seminars and donating the proceeds to ecosystem restoration and education for rural African people. The rest of the time she lives in the Pennsylvania woods with her family and other assorted creatures. Her passions include nature, pajamas, and YouTube videos of unlikely animal companions.
For more information on Martha Beck, please visit her on Facebook, Instagram, Substack, and at marthabeck.com.
“Martha Beck has a rare ability to see the world with wisdom and heart. She is a teacher in the truest sense of the word.”
—Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger and The Dance of Connection
Dr. Martha Beck is a New York Times bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. She has spent a lifetime offering powerful, practical, and entertaining teachings that help people improve every aspect of their lives. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.”
Dr. Beck’s published works include several self-help books and memoirs, including her latest instant New York Times Bestseller, Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose. Her other New York Times and international bestsellers include Finding Your Own North Star, The Joy Diet, Expecting Adam and the Oprah’s Book Club selection, The Way of Integrity which explores why “integrity”—being in harmony with ourselves—is the key to a meaningful and joyful life. She has also published over 150 magazine articles, including almost two decades of monthly columns for O, The Oprah Magazine.
Beck is a passionate and engaging speaker, known for her characteristic blending of science, spirituality, and humor. As “the best-known life coach in America” (NPR, USA Today), she has spoken to audiences around the world on stage and on The Oprah Show, Good Morning America, and many other television programs.
“If you want to be like Oprah Winfrey—and who doesn’t—we have two words for you: Martha Beck.”
—Boston Globe
Every year, Dr. Beck spends several weeks each year in South Africa, running wilderness-based seminars and donating the proceeds to ecosystem restoration and education for rural African people. The rest of the time she lives in the Pennsylvania woods with her family and other assorted creatures. Her passions include nature, pajamas, and YouTube videos of unlikely animal companions.
For more information on Martha Beck, please visit her on Facebook, Instagram, Substack, and at marthabeck.com.
- Thriving Through Change
- Finding Your Own North Star
- Leadership and Integrity
- True Self, True Life, True Purpose
- Beyond Anxiety
Books:
- Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose (The Open Field, 2025)
- The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (The Open Field, 2021)
- Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening (Cynosure Publishing, 2016)
- The Martha Beck Collection Volume One: Essays on Creating Your Right Life (Martha Beck Inc., 2013)
- Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create (Atria Books, 2011)
- Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny (Crown, 2009)
- The Four Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Piece (Crown, 2006)
- Leaving the Saints: How I Lot the Mormons and Found My Faith (Crown, 2005)
- The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practice for a Happier Life (Crown, 2003)
- Finding Your Own North Star (Crown, 2001)
- Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic (Times Books, 1999)
- Breaking Point: Why Women Fall Apart and How They Can Re-create Their Lives (Crown, 1997)
- Breaking the Cycle of Compulsive Behavior, with John C. Beck (Salt Lake City Deseret Book Company, 1990)
Selected Writing:
A teacher, a mother, a sage, Martha holds our hand as she leads us back home to ourselves.
Martha Beck writes like a wizard—her magic trick is turning people into their true selves.
It’s rare that so much wisdom can be found wrapped up in such comedy, such kindness, such lightness of touch.
- The Merchant of Just Be Happy, The New York Times
- Even the World’s Top Life Coaches Need a Life Coach, Bloomberg Businessweek
- LISTEN: The Curiosity Cure: Martha Beck’s Guide to Befriending Anxiety, For the Love with Jen Hatmaker
- LISTEN: Dr. Martha Beck: Access Your Best Self With Mind-Body Practices, Belief Testing & Imagination, Huberman Lab
- LISTEN: Martha Beck speaks with Oprah on The Way of Integrity, Super Soul podcast
- LISTEN: Leap into the Fire, Martha Beck talks with Elizabeth Gilbert about fear on the Magic Lessons podcast
- LISTEN: Martha Beck interviewed about the Integrity Cleanse, Wellpreneur podcast
- VIDEO: Martha Beck on managing social anxiety by eating with others, The Washington Post
BOOKS
Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose
“Martha has tackled a subject that is the true virus of our time: aniexity … [and] discovered actual real-life solutions.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and City of Girls
The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
Finding Your Own North Star
Expecting Adam
Leaving the Saints
Diana, Herself
Steering by Starlight
Videos
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