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The beloved bestselling collection of common sense wisdom from a celebrated psychologist and military veteran who proves it's never too late to move beyond the deepest of personal lossesAfter service in Vietnam, as a surgeon for the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1968-69, at the height of the war, Dr. Gordon Livingston returned to the U.S. and began work as a psychiatrist. In that capacity, he has listened to people talk about their lives--what works, what doesn't, and the limitless ways (many of them self-inflicted) that people find to be unhappy.He is also a parent twice bereaved; in one thirteen-month period he lost his eldest son to suicide, his youngest to leukemia. Out of a lifetime of experience, Gordon Livingston has extracted thirty bedrock truths, including:We are what we do.Any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least.The perfect is the enemy of the good.Only bad things happen quickly.Forgiveness is a form of letting go, but they are not the same thing.The statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood traumas.Livingston illuminates these and twenty-four other truths in a series of carefully hewn, perfectly calibrated essays, man
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gordon Livingston; Elizabeth Edwards
- Publisher
- Da Capo Lifelong Books
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780786732265
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Self Help, Psychology, Reference
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (1,367 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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