The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest

182 BRIANNA WIEST
money, you need to get really good with money. If you are
traumatized about traveling, you need to travel again.
We do not find the resolution in avoiding these things forever.
In fact, just underneath the fear we often find that they
are the things we really want more than anything else.
THIRD, STOP TAKING THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS AT FACE
VALUE.
Last, to overcome trauma, you have to stop engaging in
psychic thinking. You have to stop pretending you are able
to predict what will happen, that you know other people’s
intentions, or that what you feel and think is absolute
truth and reality.
This kind of thinking is what takes a triggering feeling
and turns it into a defeating spiral. You take one scary
thing and make it into a prediction for what the future
will hold.
You are not an oracle. You do not know what’s next,
though you are always capable of choosing what you do
now. Almost always, the thing you are most panicked
about is a thing you do not know is happening for sure. It
is usually an assumption, a projection, a fear turned into a
terrifying potential reality.
You might think that trauma is something that other,
more damaged people have, but that is not true. Everyone