RoadSIGNS 2: Travel Tips to Higher Ground

Elizabeth Levin is chair of the Psychology Department at Laurentian
University.

Betty Healey is a motivational speaker and life coach. In this self-help
book, which follows her previous book, RoadSIGNS: Travel Tips for
Authentic Living (2003), she sets out to help her readers refine their
sign-seeing ability so that they may lead more fulfilled lives.

The first step to achieving a more meaningful life, Healey believes, is
to recognize one’s purpose in life. The second step is to act in a
manner that is consonant with that purpose. One must also accept and
forgive oneself, and others as well.

Its small format may lead one to mistake this for a children’s book,
but RoadSIGNS 2 deals with thoroughly adult problems. It is a book to be
dipped into, Healey suggests, rather than read from cover to cover. The
advice she dispenses is not particularly original (who among us has not
experienced self-esteem issues or wished we had spent more time doing
the things that truly bring us joy?), but it will be welcomed by readers
who are open to receiving it.