Product Description
The Tools
Authors: Phil Stutz, Barry Michels
Format: Paperback
Change can begin right now. Learn to bring about dynamic personal growth and find courage, inspiration, success, and happiness with the empowering bestseller from psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz.
The Sunday Times Bestseller
'My life has gotten immeasurably better as a result of working with Stutz' — Jonah Hill, Academy Award nominated actor
Can you imagine what your life would be like if you could tap into a new source of power - one that has been inside you all along - to solve your own problems and become the master of your life?
Between them, Phil Stutz and Barry Michels have over 60 years of psychotherapeutic experience, helping A-list Hollywood clients work through whatever has held them back - be it insecurity, trauma, anger, lack of willpower, negativity or avoidance - to achieve their greatest work and find a deep level of fulfilment.
Now, in The Tools, the acclaimed clinicians are sharing their life-changing methods, offering a dynamic, results-oriented practice to help you unlock your potential.
Through five simple techniques - The Reversal of Desire, Active Love, Inner Authority, The Grateful Flow and Jeopardy - the authors show you how to:
Get unstuck: Master the things you are avoiding and live in forward motion Control anger: Free yourself from rage and never-ending grudges Express yourself: Learn the secret of true confidence and find your authentic voice Combat anxiety: Stop obsessive worrying and negative thinking Find discipline: Activate willpower and make the most of every minute.
Astonishingly effective and beautifully simple, this book will give you everything you need to propel yourself forward to achieve your ambitions and be who you were born to be.
About the 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 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.
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