Heidi Schmidt

Man sollte wirklich leben und nicht nur so tun als ob Wir werden meistens zu Anpassung und L ge verzogen und verlernen f r uns selbst da zu sein. Das macht uns ungl cklich und krank. Viele sind daher auf der Suche nach sich selbst, ber Therapeuten, Coaches und Selbsthilfeb cher. Laut Ildiko Haring (82), psychologische Beraterin und eine "Pippi Langstrumpf der Therapie", ist das Heilsamste auf dieser Suche eine ehrliche Begegnung. Mit ihrem weiblichen therapeutischen Ansatz hat sie in den letzten 40 Jahren viele hunderte M nner und Frauen begleitet, ein gl cklicheres und authentischeres Leben zu f hren. So auch Heidi Schmidt, Organisationsentwicklerin und Coach. Mit ihr im Dialog offenbart sich in diesem Buch Ildiko Harings methodenlose Art zu arbeiten. Es ist ein sehr pers nliches Pl doyer f r Menschlichkeit und macht Mut, zu sich zu stehen und die eigene Wahrheit zu leben.

"I grew up on a farm,"--the year is l974, the place Sweetriver College, and Beatrice Wolfe is telling the story of her life to the glamorous young professor Philippa Sayres. So begins the achingly funny, often heartbreaking story of Beatrice's quest to escape the gothic eccentricity of her family and find an authentic identity of her own.Married in a misbegotten passion, her parents are totally unsuited to farming or to any kind of business. When they finally lose their "farm," Bea's family spirals out of control. Still under Philippa's spell, Bea moves to the city of Hartford and joins a lesbian community, and becomes so committed to her new gay identity that she barely notices she's falling in love with a man--a man just risen from the ashes of addiction, whose re-creation of himself she threatens to undo.

Pert, tart, often perfect stories from the eastern seaboard of the USA. Every one of these stories is knowing, wry, sad, funny, engaging, full of unexpected detail, perceptive in the extreme. Heidi Jon Schmidt has an ear for dialogue, but more so for what is unsaid, for the huge chasms of unspoken communication in everyday life. Her heroes are the ever-so-slightly left-of-centre misfits, who are certain there is something missing from their lives but can’t quite work out what. Whether her subject is an eleven-year-old girl grieving for her dog, a middle-aged man whose wife has left him and must return to live with his mother, an elderly lady whose husband has Alzheimers, a ninety-year-old revered poet, a group of talentless but wildly enthusiastic would-be novelists, she invests them with a credibility that makes one care passionately for them.