Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression & 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. Now, in <i>Coming Alive</i>, 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.<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>Advance praise for <i>Coming Alive</i></b><br><br> &quot;There is something indescribably beautiful about living life in integrity. The tools Barry and Phil teach in <i>Coming Alive</i> gave me the courage and clarity to align myself with the truth - no matter how hard or painful it seemed at the time.&quot;<b> - Gwyneth Paltrow</b><br><br>&quot;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, <i>Coming Alive</i> is a book I'll be pressing on friends and foes alike.&quot;<b> - Maria Semple, author of <i>Where'd You Go, Bernadette </i>and<i> Today Will Be Different</i></b><br><br>&quot;'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.&quot;<b> - Adam McKay, Academy Award-winning writer, director, and producer</b><br><br> &quot;When I was going through the most difficult years of my life, I was able to use this method to find my strength. We all have the ability to save ourselves, yet we need guidance when we are lost. In <i>Coming Alive</i> you can find the road map to enlightenment.&quot;<b> - Drew Barrymore </b><br><br> &quot;Part X is another way of describing the addict mind, the obsessive mind, the Jungian shadow, or any fear- or anger-based thought or action. It's been Phil and Barry's collective life work to deconstruct Part X and explain it to the rest of us mortals so that we can work with it and not be a slave to it.&quot;<b> - Hank Azaria</b>