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Imperfect Control: Our Lifelong Struggles with Power and Surrender

July 9, 2015 by Bryan Miller

In Necessary Losses, Viorst explored how we are shaped by the various losses we experience throughout our lives. Now, in Imperfect Control, she shows us how our sense of self and all our important relationships are colored by our struggles over control: over wanting it and taking it, loving it and fearing it, and figuring out when the time has come to surrender it. Writing with compassion, acute psychological insight, and a touch of her trademark humor, Viorst invites us to contemplate the limits and possibilities of our control. She shows us how our lives can be shaped by our actions and our choices. She reminds us, too, that we sometimes should choose to let go. And she encourages us to find our own best balance between power and surrender. (BOOK)

Author: Judith Viorst
Filed Under: PERSONAL GROWTH/SELF-ESTEEM

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