A Conversation with Tools Coach Allison White

How does a Tools coach use The Tools for themselves? Find out in this discussion between Barry Michels and Tools coach Allison White as they explore:

  • Allison’s experience of Shadow Work, including a discussion on the evil Shadow.

  • Allison’s challenges with debilitating hypochondria and how she uses Reversal of Desire to fight it.

  • How to change the emotional valence around your history by revisiting your past with an attitude of love and compassion.

  • Barry’s mystical experience of re-parenting his 10-year-old self.

  • Why forces are sometimes more useful than words or intellectual solutions.

  • What is unique about Allison’s marriage to a recovering addict, including how being required to be present and sober all the time lets you see when you don’t want to be.

  • Learning how to stop trying to fix others and instead offer loving detachment.

  • How she uses The Tools with her empathic 11-year-old son.

  • How being a parent is full of lessons to help you re-parent yourself.

  • The most common challenges she sees in her coaching practice: procrastination, fear of failure, lack of self-acceptance.

  • Allison’s favorite Tools.

  • How to embrace failure as part of the creative process.

  • Using Cosmic Rage to fight Part X.




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