How to Be Accountable
Take Responsibility to Change Your Behavior, Boundaries & Relationships

Name: How to Be Accountable
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Faith G. Harper PhD
ISBN: 9781665036627

Author: Faith G. Harper PhD, Joe Biel

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 01/30/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help, Personal Growth

Synopsis

Accountability is an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility for and to repair the harm caused by one’s actions. It features prominently in our relationships, personal lives, and professional lives. Everything from stealing money from work to lying to a friend to making a mistake at school that caused someone else to get in trouble to pressuring your spouse into having sex when they aren’t interested to murdering a stranger on the street—each require accountability, albeit dramatically different kinds. At its heart, accountability is understanding that your actions do not always have the impact that you intend; it is ownership of your actions, working to repair problematic issues, and learning how to prevent patterns from forming or continuing in the future. Sometimes this is as simple as getting to know yourself and apologizing. Sometimes it’s a years-long process to recognize the motivations and behaviors that you see inside yourself and feel like you have no control over. How to Be Accountable will walk you through your own head to understand your own patterns and behaviors, untangle them, and live the kind of life you want.

About Faith G. Harper PhD

Faith G. Harper is a bad-ass, funny lady with a PhD. She is a licensed professional counselor, board supervisor, certified sexologist, and applied clinical nutritionist with a private practice and a consulting and training business in San Antonio, Texas. She has been an adjunct professor and a TEDx presenter and proudly identifies as a woman of color and uppity, intersectional feminist. She is the author of several highly popular “five-minute therapy” zines on subjects such as anxiety, depression, and grief.

About Joe Biel

Joe Biel is an author, filmmaker, the founder and manager of Microcosm Publishing, and cofounder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He tours with his films on the Dinner and Bikes program and has been featured in Time, Publishers Weekly, Utne Reader, Portland Mercury, the Oregonian, Punk Planet, The Spectator (Japan), and Maximum Rocknroll, among others. His work can be found at JoeBiel.net.

About Erin Bennett

Erin Bennett is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a stage actress who played Carlie Roberts in the BBC radio drama Torchwood: Submission. She can be heard on several video games. Regional theater appearances include the Intiman, Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, A Noise Within, Laguna Playhouse, and the Getty Villa. She trained at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Reviews

Goodreads review by K on January 06, 2021

Umm it started off strong then went off the rails. The flow was so confusing, it lacked enough concrete steps for building accountability, and spent more time bashing "cancel culture." But the main issue with the book was it was just SO WHITE. White methods of communication, white examples (for ex,......more

Goodreads review by Pontus on April 04, 2021

Four or five stars? This is a great book and it deserves its stars and to be read, but it’s also a tough book. It’s not just polished accountability on the surface for show. This goes deep and at times I felt the book was brutally honest and to the point, meaning it took quite a lot of energy and em......more

Goodreads review by Daina on June 01, 2022

It is difficult to rate a self-help book. There were some useful tools, but it generally lacked in concrete steps/tools overall. The flow was also confusing. I am glad that I didn't spend money on this book.......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on July 12, 2023

I’ve been toting this book around in my backpack for at least three years. The very first sentence in the book knocked me on my ass and I put it down, but not away. Here I am seeing the same old issues in my life affecting me, despite my best intentions. I’m glad I finally finished it and can see ho......more

Goodreads review by Alex on October 18, 2021

Book #14 was How to Be Accountable, and it was rad af. Honestly I recommend this book to *e v e r y o n e* bc there's not a single person that this book wouldn't benefit. Want to be better at communication with your friends? With your work? With your lover? With your enemy? Well, boyhowdy this book......more