Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir Free Audiobook Download by Marsha M. Linehan

This audiobook is read by Hillary Huber, who introduces the memoir and shares her own experience with mental illness. Stephen Mendel then reads the memoir and discusses his personal experience with Marsha Linehan as well.

The audiobook is an account of the life of Marsha Linehan, a self-styled "retake person" who had a difficult childhood and struggled with various mental disorders in her early adult years. She eventually found success as a therapist and researcher, but not without some effort on her part. It's fascinating to hear about the personal battles that Linehan has endured along with what she has accomplished in one lifetime.

In this memoir, Linehan shares her personal experiences and insights into her lasting success. She provides readers with an example of what a life worth living looks like in the midst of various challenges.

Marsha Linehan's memoir begins with a story of the depression she was struggling through after the death of her husband and the turmoil that ensued. She also shares her personal struggles as well as what led to her success in changing the way people with borderline personality disorder or BPD think about themselves and their life worth living.

More than seventy-five thousand people have reported mental health problems in their lifetime, and millions of people are dealing with them. But few know that the solution to their mind-body connection may lie within themselves. Marsha Linehan offers a way forward: Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which she created and has been teaching across the country for more than three decades. The author of this memoir has spent her life studying mental illness in all its forms and how we can find our best selves through compassion, kindness and empathy for those around us.