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What If Your Greatest Adversity Has a Purpose?

Oct 15, 2026 · 1h 2m

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BUY THE BOOK!Ahead of All Parting by Barry Michels⁠https://amzn.to/3TTMT8B⁠ Psychotherapist and bestselling co-author of The Tools, Barry Michels, joins the podcast to discuss his extraordinary new memoir, Ahead of All Parting. This is a conversation for anyone searching for meaning in life’s most difficult moments and seeking to discover how transformation is possible in the face of extreme adversity. Barry has been diagnosed with a terminal brain disease, Lewy body dementia. Despite the inevitable pain and grief that come with a devastating health diagnosis, he now sees it as the path he was meant to walk—a path that has opened him up in ways he never thought possible, revealing the power…