Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression, and Unleash Your Soul's Potential

<b>The transformative new book by the authors of the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>The Tools</i> (and the resident shrinks on Goop) reveals how to deepen your emotional and spiritual experience and realize your full potential.</b><br><br> In <i>The Tools,</i> 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. In <i>Coming Alive</i>, they take us even higher via four tools that tap 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.<br><br> 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.<br><br> The tools in <i>Coming Alive</i> 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.<br><br> 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.<br><br> <b>Praise for <i>The Tools</i> by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels</b><br><br> &quot;Barry Michels and Phil Stutz are profoundly talented guides to the inner workings of the psyche. <i>The Tools</i> is breakthrough material that ignites your own capacity to transform your life.&quot;<b> - Marianne Williamson</b><br><br> &quot;The motivation book that everyone in Hollywood is obsessed with.&quot;<b><i> - Vanity Fair</i></b><br><br> &quot;A program designed to access the creative power of the unconscious.&quot;<b> - <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br> &quot;This blew my mind more than anything else I learned this year.&quot;<b> - Dr. Mehmet Oz</b>