Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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CHAPTER 5
RELEASING THE PAST
THROUGHOUT THE COURSE of our lives, we will routinely
go through a process of self-reinvention.
Over time, we are meant to change, and we are designed
to evolve. Our bodies show us this as we eliminate and replace
cells to the point that some argue we are essentially
completely made “new” again every seven years. 12
Our mental and emotional growth follow a similar process,
though it tends to occur much more often. It makes
sense, then, that some of our most profound suffering
comes from resistance to this natural process. We are in
pain because though we must change our lives, we are
holding onto baggage and debris from the past. As we
carry unresolved emotions from day to day, we gradually
move our past trauma into our future lives.
Releasing the past is a process, and a practice—one that
we have to learn. This is where we begin.