The Tools

Movie stars swear by it – and it could change your life ... The genius Hollywood trick that’s finally here.

Phil Stutz (Author) 
Phil Stutz graduated from City College in New York and received his MD from New York University. He worked as a prison psychiatrist at the Rikers Island jail complex and then in private practice in New York before moving his practice to Los Angeles in 1982. He is the bestselling co-author of The Tools and Coming Alive and subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz. 
 
Barry Michels (Author) 
Barry Michels has a BA from Harvard, a law degree from University of California, Berkeley and an MSW from the University of Southern California. He has been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 1980.

4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression and Unleash Your Soul’s Potential

Coming Alive

Hollywood's acclaimed psychotherapists Stutz and Michels share four tools to defeat the destructive, negative influences in our lives and reach our highest potential.

Phil Stutz (Author) Phil Stutz graduated from City College in New York and received his MD from New York University. He worked as a prison psychiatrist at the Rikers Island jail complex and then in private practice in New York before moving his practice to Los Angeles in 1982. He is the bestselling co-author of The Tools and Coming Alive and subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz, directed by Jonah Hill. Barry Michels (Author) Barry Michels has a BA from Harvard, a law degree from University of California, Berkeley and an MSW from the University of Southern California. He has been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 1980.

From the international bestselling authors of THE TOOLS and GOOP’s resident psychotherapists comes a ground-breaking new book to help us overcome the side of us that is destructive and negative to find a deep level of happiness and fulfilment. 
 
Just as we are all motivated and driven by a positive desire to be our best, live by our values and to follow our dreams, so too are we all held back by a negative, destructive and fear-driven side of ourselves. It is this part of us that compromises our ability to realise our potential and be truly happy – the side of us that the authors called our Part X. 
 
We all have a Part X and we cannot get rid of it, but we can learn to manage it with the help of the four simple tools in this book. When we do this we free ourselves from whatever is holding us back to create a fulfilled life and anything we want or need to achieve becomes truly possible. The four tools in this book help break Part X’s four main negative influences in our lives, namely: 
 
- Destructive impulses 
- Exhaustion and apathy 
- Negative thoughts and demoralisation 
- Pain and hurt 
 
COMING ALIVE is an inspiring, practical book to help us wake up to how we are being held back in life and to energise us to finally achieve our full potential.

Phil Stutz

What Only Adversity Can Teach You

Is there another way? Can you live life with its conflicts, uncertainties and disappointments and still feel good about yourself? How can you even begin to think clearly about life's most universal dilemmas? 
 
Acclaimed psychotherapist Phil Stutz has spent his life pondering the big challenges that we all face. In a collection of 30 powerful short essays, he reveals the solutions to life's most pressing issues, with new insights to the unique challenges of our modern age. 
 
Whether you are dealing with uncomfortable emotions like envy and anger, trying to overcome bad habits or struggling with insecurities, Lessons for Living addresses real-world circumstances and hard truths and helps you to understand and accept the painful parts of life that we will all inevitably experience. 
 
Filled with tips and tricks that will reframe your worldview, this book will offer you a new way to think about life and empower you to unleash your full potential.

Phil Stutz

Books by Phil Stutz

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