BEING TRUE What Matters Most in Work, Life, and Love

Sounds True founder and publisher Tami Simon may narrate most of her memoir with measured phrasing, but her all-in candor rivets attention to her compact guidance as well as her personal journey. With palpable courage and entertaining ad libs, she shares memorable vignettes from her life thus far and abstracts five potent lessons on how to become our “unprecedented selves.” This happens, she says, when we escape the dictates of the dominant culture and let the karma of life greet us and show us the place we are destined to be. The book is a satisfying blend of insights she’s absorbed from hundreds of spiritual teachers and the developmental wisdom of Western psychotherapy. Her authentic-sounding advice that we keep asking questions and become more kind toward ourselves and others will be especially moving for recovering intellectuals. T.W. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2016]