Lessons for Living
What Only Adversity Can Teach You
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- £8.99
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
Is there another way? Can you live life with its conflicts, uncertainties and disappointments and still feel good about yourself? How can you even begin to think clearly about life's most universal dilemmas?
Acclaimed psychotherapist Phil Stutz has spent his life pondering the big challenges that we all face. In a collection of 30 powerful short essays, he reveals the solutions to life's most pressing issues, with new insights to the unique challenges of our modern age.
Whether you are dealing with uncomfortable emotions like envy and anger, trying to overcome bad habits or struggling with insecurities, Lessons for Living addresses real-world circumstances and hard truths and helps you to understand and accept the painful parts of life that we will all inevitably experience.
Filled with tips and tricks that will reframe your worldview, this book will offer you a new way to think about life and empower you to unleash your full potential.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In these insightful if uneven essays reworked from the 1990s and early 2000s, psychiatrist Stutz (coauthor of Coming Alive) addresses a host of common emotional problems within an action-oriented psychotherapeutic framework. After becoming "demoralized" early in his career by the "inability of psychiatry to really help patients," Stutz developed "The Tools," a system designed to unlock "the infinite wisdom of the present" through a focus on routine skills practice ("If you want to change a process, you need to work on it daily"), forward motion ("the highest value is taking the next step into your future"), and a belief in higher forces, whether religious or nondenominational ("God or flow or the unconscious"). The selections tackle such problems as anger, insecurity, and relationship struggles, devoting particular attention to "Part X," an "inner adversary" that can be defeated through such interventions as praying or tapping into the "powerful energy... you get when you deprive yourself of an addiction." Despite some repetition between essays and a tendency toward generalities ("make every day you live, every action you take, personally meaningful"), readers will appreciate the author's wise and well-informed observations, which are often distilled into salient takeaways, such as this one from the entry on familial guilt and obligation: "only what you give to others in free will has lasting value." Patient readers will find plenty of wisdom here. Correction: An earlier version of this review mistakenly stated that the author co-developed "The Tools."
Customer Reviews
Fantastic book!
I would definitely recommend the book.