The Mountain Is You

there is an ongoing gap between where you are and where you want to be—and your efforts to close it are consistently met with your own resistance, pain, and discomfort—self-sabotage is almost always at work.

The task in front of you is silent, simple, and monumental. It is a feat most do not ever get to the point of attempting. You must now learn agility, resilience, and self-understanding.

self-sabotage is simply the presence of an unconscious need that is being fulfilled by the self-sabotaging behavior.

If you were aware of the real issue, you could begin working to resolve it, perhaps by identifying the ways you are giving up your power

we already know it isn’t going to happen. Therefore, we have an avenue to express our feelings without actually endangering ourselves.

Your self-concept is an idea that you have spent your whole life building. It was created by piecing together inputs and influences from those around you:

Self-sabotage is also one of the first signs that your inner narrative is outdated, limiting, or simply incorrect.

When we self-sabotage, it is often because we have a negative association between achieving the goal we aspire to and being the kind of person who has or does that thing.

Maybe you keep eating the wrong foods because they soothe you, but you haven’t stopped to ask what they have to keep soothing you from.