The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity

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· Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels
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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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4.8
15 reviews
Matt Roberts
November 30, 2022
It starts as one psychiatrist looking for pragmatic tools to offer his patients an immediate way to see how changing their outlook could improve their life. It becomes progressively more grandiose, finally by the last chapter calling for a "new spirituality" to bring about a "revolution". The reader is left to sift out what helpful information may exist amidst long rants, unencumbered by supporting evidence but infused with their unique brand of new-age mysticism, on the cure to all personal and societal ills (spoiler: practice the "tools" everyday for the rest of your life, and if you doubt them, there's a tool for that too). It's a shame, because if you do manage to put the grandiosity aside, there's a lot of value that can be extracted.
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Brian Simmons
August 3, 2023
Very insightful. I hope I have the courage and willpower to stick with the Tools. They work and are simple. The Tools are easy to use even when it feels forced. Helped me stop trying to think and reason everything getting stuck in "the maze" chapter 6 Jeapordy always hits hard. I wish I could find a therapist that utilized these simple tools in Oklahoma City.
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Merri Gilmore
November 21, 2022
Tools and the will to never give up and extreme life makeover is what it takes quitting I'd got quitters don't back down
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About the author

PHIL STUTZ graduated Phi Beta Kappa 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 in Los Angeles in 1982.
 
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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