Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

Is there another way? Can you live life with its conflicts, uncertainties, and disappointments and somehow feel good about yourself? You can. But it requires a completely new orientation.

There are issues, and there areissueslove, loss, success, failure, hope, regret, life, death. How can we even begin to think clearly about dilemmas so universally confounding? Phil Stutz has spent his life pondering the big challenges that we all face, and this profound book puts the conclusions hes reached at your fingertips.

Stutz has been writing these remarkably insightful short essays since the late 1990s, which are collected here for the first time, along with new insights specific to the unique challenges of today. Each one will change the way you think, but taken all together, this book becomes something far more than the sum of its parts: a compendium of human experience and knowledge that will reframe your worldview. There are hard truths herethe acknowledgment that life is full of pain and not a single one of us is special enough to escape itbut we need to understand and accept them in order to realize our full potential.

WhileThe Toolsexplains the general concepts and five specific practices that Stutz employs in treatment,Lessons for Livingaddresses real-world circumstances, such as the needs of children, rising above envy, defeating your bad habits, the positive side of anger, and facing insecurities, offering a new way to think about life itself.

Hardcover, Nov 28th 2023