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

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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There is nothing wrong with you because you almost get
angry when people tell you to just “let go” so nonchalantly,
as though they couldn’t fathom the storms in your head
and heart.
How can you become so passive about something you have
spent so much of your time in your life actively working to
maintain and then restore?
You can’t, and you don’t.
You start to let go on the day you take one step toward
building a new life and then let yourself lie in bed and
stare at the ceiling and cry for as many hours as you need.
You start to let go on the day you realize that you cannot
continue to revolve around a missing gap in your life, and
going on as you were before will simply not be an option.
You start to let go at the moment you realize that this is
the impetus, this is the catalyst, this is that moment the
movies are made about and the books are written around
and songs are inspired by.
This is the moment you realize that you will never find
peace standing in the ruins of what you used to be.
You can only move on if you start building something new.
You let go when you build a new life so immersive and engaging
and exciting, you slowly, over time, forget about the past.