GETTING OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY by Nancy Shainberg
"Getting Out of Your Own Way: Unlocking your True Performance Potential," by Nancy Shainberg, Luminous Press (released January 2002) is a guide for all performers and artists, actors, musicians, composers, writers, and dancers. ($18.95)
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A must read!
" Getting Out of Your Own Way" is an excellent resource for learning to comprehend, understand, and then overcome the psychological walls that tend to keep individuals from reaching their true potential. This book is for everyone that has difficulties competing on a professional level as well as performing professionally in their life.
As anyone knows, negativity keeps one from doing what he or she is able to do successfully and holds one back. The author realizes this, has put together a book to help individuals realize this themselves, and shows them how to fix it.
Such topics addresses are: Willingness, Negative Self-Talk, Parents, Relishing the Unknown, and Inhabiting Your Life.
I found Ms. Shainberg's approach useful and extremely informative. She is a psychotherapist with a private practice as well as the Director of Psychological Services for the Miller Health Care Institute for Performing Artists of Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. She is an accomplished equestrian athlete, campaigning her horses on the national show circuit. Ms. Shainberg works and resides in Manhattan. (Jennifer LB Leese, ASTORYWEAVER'S Book Reviews.)
Review by Alice G. Brandfonbrener, M.D.
Nancy Shainberg, the author of "Getting Out of Your Own Way" is a clinical social worker with a practice that includes a variety of performers, and she is also a competitive equestrian. She writes a very direct and clear book, much of it in a Q and rhetorical A style that is very readable without being condescending. . . .
Reviewed by Beverly J. Rowe, MyShelf.Com
This book is about developing a sound, strong, inner self and increasing your chances to become the success of your dreams. With years of experience as a performer and a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of performing artists, Shainberg brings her expertise to bear on helping you to raise your performance potential in any endeavor.
Her methods are "inside-out" conditioning of your inner self, rather that the "outside-in" methods that are more familiar. She claims that most of us are "sitting on the fence;" a pop term for our terminal ambivalence. We survey all our life choices, but do not really commit to any one of them. We need to focus on what or who we really want to be, and what we want to do with our lives. Shainberg admonishes us that the best way to achieve the future is to achieve the present, and that we have a responsibility to ourselves to stop chasing a perfect future and concentrate on the present.
Here are tried and true methods to help us focus on what needs to be changed about ourselves to access our full potential. This step-by-step plan to re-create yourself and become the successful person you want to be, is just what I need to apply to my own life.
She tells us how to use our mistakes and shortcomings as opportunities to learn and change and to become your own ally instead of your own worst enemy. This well written guide to success is laced with anecdotal examples of the application of Shainberg's approach to finding the "real you." I think I'll read it over again and map out a plan for improvement using Shainberg's practical techniques. It makes sense.