The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Change can begin right now. Learn to bring about dynamic personal growth using five uniquely effective tools—from psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz, subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz.

“These tools are emotional game changers. They do nothing less than deliver you to your best and most powerful self.”—Kathy Freston, author of Quantum Wellness
 
The Tools offers a solution to the biggest complaint patients have about therapy: the interminable wait for change to begin. The traditional therapeutic model sets its sights on the past, but psychiatrist Phil Stutz and psychotherapist Barry Michels employ an arsenal of techniques—“the tools”—that allow patients to use their problems as levers that access the power of the unconscious and propel them into action. Suddenly, through this transformative approach, obstacles become new chances—to find courage, embrace discipline, develop self-expression, deepen creativity.
 
A dynamic, results-oriented practice, The Tools aims to deliver relief from persistent problems and restore control and hope right away. Every day presents challenges—big and small—that the tools transform into opportunities to bring about bold and dramatic change in your life. Stutz and Michels teach you how to:
 
Get Unstuck: Master the things you are avoiding and live in forward motion.
Control Anger: Free yourself from out-of-control 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.
 
With The Tools, Stutz and Michels allow you to realize the full range of your potential. Their goal is nothing less than for your life to become exceptional—exceptional in its resiliency, in its experience of real happiness, and in its understanding of the human spirit.

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4.5
49 reviews
A Google user
August 31, 2012
You are doing yourself a disservice by reading this book instead of listening to the audio book 4+ time. Yes, audio costs more. However, Barry Michaels has a very pleasant voice to listen to. I've listened to the 6 CD book at least 4 times. Every time I pick up a something new and a different nuance. After the first listening, I could only tell you about the first tool "reversal of desire" and the last tool "jeopardy. After the fourth I can tell you all the tools by memory. So, here is the big thing. You don't have to understand religion/spirituality/collective consciousness or any of that intangible stuff for the Tools to work. When you start using the tools things just start happening. I've always been pretty much an introvert, but I can now feed off the slightest opening to strike-up a casual conversation with anyone. I just spoke in front of 60 people this week, where I would normally get anxious. One thing they don't mention in the book is creating a visual reminder to use the tools. I've created wall paper for my cell phone that shows the tools, so that I'm reminded to use them. Otherwise, you will stop using them within days. THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE MY LIFE!
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Sandy Kralovec
January 19, 2014
Great ideas, but you need to be ready to follow thru. Also not sure how to implement all ideas or what to do first.
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El Isa Beth
March 26, 2013
This will change and impact your life, but only if you are ready and want it to.
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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 on Rikers Island and then in private practice in New York before moving his practice to Los Angeles in 1982. He is the 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 in Los Angeles since 1986.

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