After a brief exchange, I wrote the book proposal for Negaholics. Another friend and colleague suggested that I send the proposal to his agent, which I did. He found the concept fascinating and subsequently sold the manuscript to Villard, a division of Random House. Negaholics was chosen by Oprah, and became so popular that it sold hundreds of thousands of copies and was published in 14 languages.

The sequel to Negaholics was The Corporate Negaholic containing case stories about our Organizational Development work over 20 years that illustrates the connection between people’s behavior from their family of origin to the corporate environment. In 1993, I published, Inner View, to support women in taking responsibility for their health by tracking the causes and effects of the ups and downs in daily life.

I received significant National and International notoriety and public recognition in 1998 when If Life is a Game, These are the Rules was published. This was primarily since I accessed the universal truths that connect all people in the essence of what it means to be human in this book. This Life book has such universal appeal that it is now published in over 40 languages worldwide.

My Inspiration:

The recent series of books that I have written address natural transitions in human development. As a person grows, there are normal and expected transitions that by their very nature are uncertain, unsettling, and unclear. Those transitions are: becoming an adult, finding your career or calling, compatible partnering, becoming a parent, and growing older.

Successful transit through these rites of passage is a large part of our development as adults. Each transition has its own universal truths that transcend gender, nationality, race, and religion. I wrote these books to provide handrails for people to help clarify and guide them through the uncertainties they face and to sort out their personal evolution as a result of each transition.

Writing a book is not done with the wave of a wand. It takes time to reflect and soul search for the universal truths related to each developmental phase. Writing a book is like birthing a baby. It grows at it’s own pace and time. As I write about human evolution, my own development as a writer comes from listening, reality checking, and alternating from going within and then documenting. Creating structure, then flow, sprinkled with inspiration, coupled with tools and techniques is a delicate balance. If Life is a Game has been touted as a “masterpiece of the genre” which only happens with attention to every detail.

Why we encourage you to read these books:

We encourage you to read books written by Dr Cherie Carter-Scott:

1. Because of the philosophy of Life
2. The documentation of coaching cases
3. To be a resource for your clients on:
1. Our general philosophy of life
2. Communication
3. How to overcome negativity
4. How to access one’s authentic self
5. Visioning
6. Career development and success
7. how to raise socially responsible children.
4. To support you in your coaching with individuals, couples, families, executives, and even teenagers.
1. As a shared topical reference
2. In assigning reading homework
3. Accessing important information that you want do discuss in future sessions
4. See different applications for the same “ground of being” with different age groups in different developmental phases
5. See how being conscious and mindful of a transition can help in successful navigation of the transit
6. Resources that augment your work, and save you time, energy, and effort
7. Bridging cultures in a variety of different languages with universal concepts that serve as connectors

We invite you to ask questions about the content of the books so that you can feel as if they were written for you, your family, and your clients…because they were!