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The Tools

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Length 7 hours 7 minutes
Language English
Narrators Barry Michels & Phil Stutz

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5 unique Tools ... 3 seconds each to use ... A lifetime of fulfilment

Can you imagine what your life would be if you could tap into a new source of power - one that has been inside you all along - to solve your own problems and become the master of your life?

The Tools is an extraordinary psychological model based on the proven methods of Hollywood's greatest psychotherapists. Phil Stutz and Barry Michels have over 60 years of psychotherapeutic experience between them. Together they have helped their A-list clients work through whatever has held them back - be it insecurity, trauma, anger, lack of willpower, negativity or avoidance - and achieve their greatest work and find a deep level of fulfilment.

Now, at last, the acclaimed clinicians are sharing their methods in this eye-opening and empowering book. Introducing their five simple techniques, namely The Reversal of Desire, Active Love, Inner Authority, The Grateful Flow and Jeopardy, the authors clearly explain what they are and how and when to use them. Astonishingly effective and beautifully simple - once you've learned a tool it takes only three to five seconds to use it - this book will give you everything you need to propel yourself forward to achieve your ambitions and be who you were born to be.

Phil Stutz graduated from City College in New York and received his MD from New York University. He worked as a prison psychiatrist at the Rikers Island jail complex and then in private practice in New York before moving his practice to Los Angeles in 1982. He is the bestselling co-author of The Tools and Coming Alive and 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 since 1980.

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.

Phil Stutz graduated from City College in New York and received his MD from New York University. He worked as a prison psychiatrist at the Rikers Island jail complex and then in private practice in New York before moving his practice to Los Angeles in 1982. He is the bestselling co-author of The Tools and Coming Alive and subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz.

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Hollywood's "open secret" Barry Michels and Phil Stutz are profoundly talented guides to the inner workings of the psyche. The Tools is breakthrough material that ignites your own capacity to transform your life. Every single thing I've written of any power or merit came through using the tools Barry taught me. Usually counterintuitive, sometimes dangerous, they only changed my life. The clear, user-friendly approach plus a belief that ‘the power of higher forces is absolutely real’ is a winning combination. Here is the rare self-help book that doesn’t end with the self. The Tools is the new über-bible of life techniques. And it WORKS! Expand reviews