Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression & Unleash Your Soul's Potential
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Rating | : | 4.68 (816 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0812994116 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-06-10 |
Language | : | English |
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It’s an incredibly fulfilling and meaningful way to live.”—Gwyneth Paltrow “What a gift! A riveting exploration of four (bone-chillingly relatable) modern ailments and their thrillingly practical solutions Barry and Phil have written a manual for moving beyond impulsivity, exhaustion, demoralization, and victimhood, toward a life of self-control, vitality, optimism, and resilience. Singular in its approach and deeply spiritual in its concerns, Coming Alive is a book I’ll be pressing on friends and foes alike.”—Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Today Will Be Different “‘Practical’ and ‘effective’ are words psychology has always been afraid to embrace. It’s been Phil and Barry’s collective life work to deconstruct Part X and explain it to the rest of us mortals so that we can work with it and not be a slave
Now, in Coming Alive, they provide four vital tools for tapping into the Life Force that resides within each of us—a wellspring of positive energy that is the source of creativity, renewal, confidence, and engagement. In whatever guise it appears, Part X aims to derail your progress, keep you small and stuck, and defeat hope. The tools Barry and Phil teach in Coming Alive gave me the courage and clarity to align myself with the truth—no matter how hard or painful it seemed at the time.”—Gwyneth Paltrow“What a gift! A riveting exploration of four (bone-chillingly relatable) modern ailments and their thrillingly practical solutions Singular in its approach and deeply spiritual in its concerns, Coming Alive is a book I’ll be pressing on friends and foes alike.”—Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Today Will Be Different“‘Practical’ and ‘effective’ are words psychology has always been afraid to embrace. We all have the ability to save ourselves, yet we need guidance when we are lost. Drawing insights from their decades of psychotherapeutic practice, their lived experience, and their moving and generous understanding of our interconnect
Michels, a psychotherapist, has a BA from Harvard, a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MSW from the University of Southern California. Barry Michels and Phil Stutz are the New York Times bestselling authors of The Tools and the resident therap