Risking Being Alive
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: Revised.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Residue from previous price sticker to back of cover.
What does it truly mean to embrace life with all its uncertainty, vulnerability, and raw possibility? Risking Being Alive is a bold and introspective work that challenges its readers to confront the fundamental question of authentic living, presenting a collaborative vision from three distinct thinkers — James Oldham, Tony Key, and Igor Yaro Starak — who together argue that genuine aliveness demands courage, risk, and a willingness to shed the comfortable armour of self-protection. The book chronicles a journey inward, drawing on psychology, philosophy, and personal growth frameworks to illuminate the barriers that prevent individuals from fully inhabiting their own existence. Written with warmth and disarming honesty, the work illustrates how the fear of living fully is often more paralysing than the very risks it seeks to avoid, weaving together personal insight, therapeutic wisdom, and philosophical provocation in a voice that is both accessible and deeply considered. The collaboration of three authors brings a rich, multifaceted perspective that resists easy answers, instead presenting the reader with an invitation — to question, to feel, and ultimately to choose aliveness over the slow comfort of numbness. Illustrated by Gustav Russ Youngreen, even its visual language speaks to the wild, untamed spirit at the heart of its message — leaving one to wonder: what have you been risking by playing it safe?
Author: James Oldham, Tony Key, Igor Yaro Starak
Format: Paperback
Published: 1981, PIT Publishing.
Genre: Self help & mindfulness
Edition: Revised.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Residue from previous price sticker to back of cover.
What does it truly mean to embrace life with all its uncertainty, vulnerability, and raw possibility? Risking Being Alive is a bold and introspective work that challenges its readers to confront the fundamental question of authentic living, presenting a collaborative vision from three distinct thinkers — James Oldham, Tony Key, and Igor Yaro Starak — who together argue that genuine aliveness demands courage, risk, and a willingness to shed the comfortable armour of self-protection. The book chronicles a journey inward, drawing on psychology, philosophy, and personal growth frameworks to illuminate the barriers that prevent individuals from fully inhabiting their own existence. Written with warmth and disarming honesty, the work illustrates how the fear of living fully is often more paralysing than the very risks it seeks to avoid, weaving together personal insight, therapeutic wisdom, and philosophical provocation in a voice that is both accessible and deeply considered. The collaboration of three authors brings a rich, multifaceted perspective that resists easy answers, instead presenting the reader with an invitation — to question, to feel, and ultimately to choose aliveness over the slow comfort of numbness. Illustrated by Gustav Russ Youngreen, even its visual language speaks to the wild, untamed spirit at the heart of its message — leaving one to wonder: what have you been risking by playing it safe?