Why Everyone with Chronic Illness should watch Stutz.

So I was flipping through Netflix to see what movies were new and recommended, and I was served with an image of Jonah Hill with the title Stutz,
Because I am on a never ending quest to improve myself, and give my self tools to empower myself with this shell of MS that I am stuck in until there is a cure, I figured I had to take a peek to see what it was about. It wasn’t like I was paying a ticket price for it, it is included in a Netflix subscription.

This documentary is a self produced project by Jonah Hill, who also does the interviewing. We learned that Stutts is his therapist, who he goes to whenever he has life struggles. He has helped him through a lot of tough times in his life, and always has good advice for him. Jonah wanted him to share those tools with other people so that he could spread his knowledge and make people happy.
But I soon learned was that his therapist, 74-year-old Stutz, a brilliant man, with a still very working mind, has Parkinson’s disease. He has had it for sometime he says, and while it may impact a speech, somewhat, he is very understandable, engaging and downright funny. He jokes around with Jonah a lot during the interview. Jonah asks him some pretty tough questions that it doesn’t seem that he was aware he would be asked, like if he is in a romantic relationship. When he shares that he has had one for over 40 years and his take on, never having had kids, stats, goes into comedy mode. Jonah picks up on this and just brushes him off and tells him to answer the question.
They are very good together those two, it’s almost as if they have a symbiotic therapeutic relationship.

Stutz talks about tools that he has given not only Jonah, but all of his patients, and uses himself. One of these tools I really loved was grateful flow. I won’t give too much information about it because I feel you should really learn best from the master, but it gave me insight as to how do use gratefulness to really breakthrough and see what you do have that gives meaning to your life. in a shell of Parkinson’s disease I am sure that every day can seem like it sucks. There are days when MS makes me upset when I drop things, spill things all over the floor or all over very important paperwork or electronic devices like tablets, but there is meaning in everything I do. I can always learn some thing and get better for the next time. I am grateful for times that I spill my green tea that I make myself early in the morning, on my way to meditating in my special corner of the house, but I just look at it, and I’m thankful that I made it here, and I wipe it up quietly and move on. This grateful flow that he speaks of is a little beyond that and more of an exercise to just think of the things grateful in your life and do it one by one, very small things, and just when you’re about to think of the last thing, hold it and put it in your heart. I don’t want to sound over the top with these very powerful tools that Jonah has so graciously shared with us by interviewing and producing this documentary on stats so I will wait until you see it for yourself. I can’t wait to learn what tool you find most valuable.

If you have a chronic illness like myself with MS, I highly recommend you watch this powerful educational documentary. You just might walk away from it with something that you can use to empower yourself in a world that seems so unfair, so woe is me. You will learn that you can find happiness in every day and live life very meaningfully.

I am sure that you will find some thing you can take away from a doctor of psychology, who is able to hack his mind , and find beauty in every day not just that, but can also motivate others by sharing the tools that he learns. They are tried and true methods, and I appreciate Jonah so much more as a person, even though I was always a fan of him as an actor. I hope you find some comfort and joy in watching the Stutz documentary too.