The Way of Integrity Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club)

And previously on the podcast, we had my colleague, Dr. Anna Lemke, who runs our dual diagnosis addiction clinic. She's done a tremendous service to the world talking about all the various kinds of addiction, addiction as a disease, yes, but also something that people can overcome.

And one of the things that I love so much about Anna's message, she wrote the book Dopamine Nation.

Oh, I love that book.

Yeah, wonderful book.

She talks about how recovered addicts are actually her heroes because they've learned to navigate this internal process that most people perhaps who aren't addicts or don't think they are, are constantly being yanked around by these dopamine systems.

What this whole book is about, it's called The Way of Integrity. And integrity doesn't mean what most people think it does, at least not here. It comes from the word integer, which means one thing. And being in integrity is being whole and undivided.

So when people get, when they're socialized to do something like seek a certain type of success, if that's not according to your true nature and your culture, pulls you toward it, you leave your nature to serve your culture.

And what that does is it splits you in two. So you're no longer in integrity, you're in duplicity, but you don't actually even know it with the conscious mind. You feel it in the heart, you feel it in the body and the soul, but the mind is clueless.

So yeah, being in whole and in integrity often means turning off cultural noises and tuning back into one's own true nature.

I've been using Dante's Divine Comedy as my own private self-help book my entire life.

I wrote a book called The Way of Integrity where I said you have to be in the truth, the truth of your own experience. And integrity was not meant in a moral sense, but in a structural sense. A plane that's in structural integrity can fly.

I said in the book, it's not morality, it's just physics. So here you have a worldview and a set of beliefs. If it's in perfect integrity, that is all your sense of what is true at all levels of your body, mind, heart, soul.

Martha's most recent book, The Way of Integrity, Finding the Path to Your True Self was an instant New York Times bestseller.

Martha's most recent book, The Way of Integrity, Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times bestseller.

Her newest book, The Way of Integrity, I love this book, I love this book, I love this book, Finding the Path to Your True Self was an instant New York Times bestseller, obviously.

One of the things when I wrote this book about integrity, I was like, how do you know what's true?

And I realized that it's when your heart, your mind, your body, and your soul are all saying the same thing.

And what it feels like is like puzzle pieces clicking or locks coming into alignment.

I am meant to live in peace.

I've never met anyone, not people convicted criminals, psychopaths, they always still when they said that there was nothing in them that said that is not true.

Well, first I will say the way of integrity, I read it. I loved it. When you say every truth makes us relaxed and every lie makes us tense, it feels warm to me.

Her published works include the New York Times international bestsellers Finding Your Own North Star, I've read it. The Joy Diet, I've read it. Expecting Adam, I've read it. Martha's newest book, The Way of Integrity. I've read it twice. Finding the Path to Your True Self was obviously an instant New York Times bestseller.

I love the part in Way of Integrity too, where when you said write down all of the rage, write down what you hate, I feel like that was such an important chapter for me and something that I've always known to be true, which is that this compulsive fake positivity.

She wrote that book, The Way of Integrity. And if people don't remember, it's just a book that encourages you to try and live the most honest and truthful life that you can.

I don't know if I've talked about this book before but the Martha Beck book called The Way of Integrity I cannot encourage people enough to read this book; it is lifechanging, it is so eyeopening about honesty and the importance of removing as many white lies out of your life as possible.

She said the amount of joy and shift in her life came from seeing how little white lies add up, and after reading she mapped out how everything can pull you under when you're not living honestly.