• Coming Alive

  • 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression & Unleash Your Soul's Potential

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Publisher's summary

Tap into the life force to deepen your emotional and spiritual experience and realize your full potential with this transformative book by the New York Times best-selling authors of The Tools (and the resident shrinks on Goop).

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 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.

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.

Includes a bonus PDF with images from the book.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2017 Barry Michels (P)2017 Random House Audio
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Critic reviews

"There is something indescribably beautiful about living life in integrity. 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. But after working with Barry and Phil for years, I can tell you that they deliver spiritual and psychological transformation. The results, at least for me, have been life changing." (Adam McKay, Academy Award-winning writer, director, and producer)
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By Zain Sattouf on 02-08-19

life changing slow read if you actually implement

Life changing slow read if you actually implement it into your life . Requires active effort but is well worth it. soooooo many mind blowing links between spirituality, psychology & self development. paradoxes too!

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By Cornelius Fields on 08-30-17

Amazing

changed my life! I will use these tools in my life! The best audio book I have listened to.

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By GoAmazon! on 01-13-23

Life changing

Literally. This is real. This is truth. This is beauty. I listen over and over and get more each time.

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By Joe Garcia on 06-22-23

Amazing book! Everyone benefits!

Such a great book and practical tools to learn how to reach a higher state of being in a fast paced world!

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By Jami Leigh Taylor on 08-27-17

Amazing

This book changed my life in one listen. It is a beautiful work, best experienced in audiobook format. I highly recommend it.

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By Monica Puckett on 02-15-23

Tools the ability to do rather than consume!

Once again, I am in awe of the these extraordinary men and their work! I am using the tools regularly and sharing with others as I become more proficient. Their ability to present such beautiful and profound spiritual tools exceeds anything I have learned about my spirituality and life on this earth in my 50 years on this planet! THANK YOU!

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By Kimberly Maitland on 02-16-23

Wonderful book!

I can’t wait to start using the tools. I’m very excited to see where this takes me.
I highly recommend it.

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By Book Lover on 01-03-23

Fantastic Book I Loved it so much !

I am so grateful that I recently learned about Phil Stutz on a documentary. The Tools have changed my life and I will continue to use them. It has improved my relationship with my husband, my son, my family, my friends and the people I encounter on a daily basis. I cannot thank Barry Michels and Phil Stutz enough for this gem of an Audible Book!

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By Mike on 01-13-23

Changed my life

I will be going back and re reading this for the rest of my life. I’m so grateful to have this beautiful work as a helping tool for keeping me engaged with life and others and myself in a healthy and loving way. Extremely real and practical, yet absolutely profound, heartwarming, and spiritual. I hope everyone reads it if they get the chance.

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By Sandy Kreager on 06-18-23

Love This Book that Connects so many Dots!

Worth the read! Worth the Investment! Helps you Live Your Life With Purpose! Do yourself a favor…. Read it again and again until it becomes habit! 🌟🌟🌟

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