Emotional chaos to clarity : how to live more skillfully, make better decisions, and find purpose in life / Phillip Moffitt.

Includes index.

PART I: Practices that empower you to achieve clarity -- Beginning your journey to clarity -- Getting to know the real you -- Living an intentional life -- Starting over -- Letting go of expectations -- Balancing priorities -- PART II: Developing skillful behaviours -- Starting your day with clarity -- Knowing what's really happening -- Making skillful decisions -- Cultivating the qualities of loving-kindness and compassion -- Living into life through gratitude -- Overcoming attachments through generosity -- Doing the right thing -- Bringing mindfulness to making major life changes -- PART III: Removing the sources of chaos -- Keeping boundaries -- Ending the cycle of self-violence -- Practicing self-restraint -- Overcoming ordinary compulsiveness -- Living skillfully with the difficult -- Practicing forgiveness and reconciliation -- Epilogue: What next? -- Online resources -- Index.

Emotional Chaos to Clarity recognises the inevitability of life's challenges and offers you the tools to find clarity, resilience and calm to cope even at our darkest hours. Balancing Phillip Moffitt's influences of Western psychology and Buddhist philosophy, each chapter introduces a mind state that prevents us from living skilfully, narrates stories from Moffitt's hundreds of students and clients, and provides step-by-step exercises for readers to find clarity in their own lives. Provided by publisher.