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Coming Alive
- 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression & Unleash Your Soul's Potential
- Narrated by: Phil Stutz, Barry Michels
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The transformative new book by the authors of the New York Times best-seller The Tools (and the resident shrinks on Goop) reveals how to deepen your emotional and spiritual experience and realize your full potential.
In The Tools, Barry Michels and Phil Stutz revolutionized the world of personal growth and self-actualization by offering doable, dynamic actions that transformed challenges into opportunities for change. Now, in Coming Alive, they provide four vital tools for tapping in to the Life Force that resides within each of us - a wellspring of positive energy that is the source of creativity, renewal, confidence, and engagement.
The first step in gaining mastery over one's life is identifying the enemy within, which Michels and Stutz have named Part X. This formidable adversary is a shape-shifter - it may be the voice in your head that is a torrent of negativity, persuading you of the futility of finding love, starting a business, or pursuing a creative passion; it may sap you of energy, convincing you that your inner resources are limited; it may take the form of outside forces that conspire against you. In whatever guise it appears, Part X aims to derail your progress, keep you small and stuck, and defeat hope.
The tools in Coming Alive help you connect to the Life Force and harness the energy and will to combat Part X. These are tools of ascendance - they activate your aspirational self; they spark creativity and resilience; they help you to transcend the mire of negative thoughts and circumstances and align with a powerful ally that unites us in our common desire to live lives of meaning and engagement.
Drawing insights from their decades of psychotherapeutic practice, their lived experience, and their moving and generous understanding of our interconnectedness, Michels and Stutz have created a paradigm-shifting guide to achieving optimal mental health and spiritual well-being.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
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- jam
- 2018-04-08
a very helpful resource
Despite the mixed metaphors and a lull near the end this was amazing! Phil has an awesome delivery Style. I heard him in an interview on WTF and was immediately drawn. Barry is a bit more typical when it comes to self-help books. His delivery is a touch breathy, and corny. I find metaphors very helpful and there are lots of them in this book. It is fairly straightforward and the tools to do work. Like anything, you just have to apply yourself over and over again. They helped to reinforce the idea that progress comes from friction and challenge. That is a very empowering thing to learn and Implement. I would highly recommend this book. With about an hour left. I worried that the book was really varying off-track and about to lose me. Moments later the book finished with an astounding and inspiring end. stick with it end I think you will be glad you did. the real world examples that they give are fantastic and inspiring, but some of the comparisons they make it to people like Martin Luther King or a bit superficial and defensive. I'm the less I am very thankful for this piece of work.
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- Tony
- 2018-02-02
essential
I tried the visualization where you imagin your shadow self turn and look at the crowd with you before speaking or singing on stage. it totally changed my experience of leading worship for the better. A pivotal, life changing book
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- Johanne Voyer
- 2022-12-01
So helpful!
Loved the book and the tool provided. I only wish that the table of contents was detailed to refer back to certain passages. If you don’t bookmark them, it is not easy to find the content.
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- Lisa Vas
- 2023-12-22
Growth
Don’t wait - get this book! The 4 tools are life-changing. The examples are effective and engaging.
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- Matt
- 2023-01-25
Life changing!
I have read many different self help books but this actually gives you the tools to take action. It has changed my life!
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- owenca
- 2023-03-27
Wacky but useful
Really original though some of the philosophy behind it is weird. It’s basically a series of visualization tools referred to as if they’re actual qualities in life. If you can get past the annoying rants that “most people live half-lives” and society used to be better, the visualization tools for energy, courage, positivity are helpful.
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- Dennis Fitzpatrick
- 2024-03-26
Phil Stutz and Barry Michels work has legitimately changed my life
I usually don’t write reviews at all but I’ve read and listened to a bunch of self help, psychology, philosophy books been to therapy watched lectures videos on self improvement did all the tips but for the first time in my life I’ve had the most hope ever that there is hope that I can change that I can be better if I ever met these guys I’d just want to say thank you
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- K. Mazerolle
- 2023-08-11
Disappointing and felt long
I came by the audiobook through a podcast recommendation. I felt it was long and I couldn’t get really into it and not sure what all I took away practically from listening to it.
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