Psychiatrist to the Stars: How to ACTUALLY Feel better | Phil Stutz
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt stuck in life? Psychiatrist Phil Stutz says leaning into adversity is the secret to getting unstuck. His unconventional methods have helped celebrities and everyday people find meaning and purpose when they felt lost.
Now, in his new book Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You, Stutz shares the tools and wisdom from 40 years of therapy on how to face hardship and grow through life's storms. This fascinating conversation may challenge everything you thought you knew about living well.
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| 0:00.0 | Nothing real can be accomplished. |
| 0:02.6 | Nothing permanent can be accomplished. |
| 0:05.2 | You'll have no impact on the course of events around you or even in the world |
| 0:10.1 | unless you become potent. |
| 0:13.0 | One of the most satisfying things for me is a shrink |
| 0:16.0 | is when I see somebody move up the ladder. |
| 0:20.0 | And it doesn't have to be deep evocative, revealing experiences that you can. |
| 0:26.6 | It's great if it is. |
| 0:28.0 | It's just can they get through life a little bit better? |
| 0:31.8 | Can they make a phone call that they're afraid to make etc? I always tell |
| 0:36.1 | them especially new patients because they have all kinds of objections as well they should. I tell them, try this for two |
| 0:42.3 | weeks, maybe a month month if you don't feel something changing |
| 0:47.1 | fire me please fire me. |
| 0:49.2 | So have you ever felt stuck in work or maybe a relationship or life like you're just |
| 0:57.8 | going through the motions day after day and have no idea how to break out of it |
| 1:01.6 | maybe along for more creativity or meaning love, excitement, or purpose in your life. |
| 1:06.2 | And if this sounds familiar, you're not alone. |
| 1:09.2 | We all can get trapped in the inertia of free to disrupt our comfort zones. |
| 1:14.0 | And facing these moments, hard as they can be is critical. |
| 1:17.4 | But how you face them can make the difference between finally getting unstuck and making |
| 1:22.2 | amazing things happen in life or digging yourself |
| 1:25.2 | deeper into the rut that's already wreaking havoc on you, which is why I was so excited |
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