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

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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Healing is going to change everything, but it has to start
with you being willing to feel what you are afraid to feel.
Let’s be clear about something: Becoming the best version
of yourself is your natural inheritance. It is what you
are born to do. Healing is simply releasing the sickness
that is the limiting beliefs and fears that are holding you
back from doing exactly that.
Healing is not about going back to exactly who you were
before, because that person wasn’t yet capable of seeing
the storm before it hit, and that person didn’t know how
to shield themselves from it.
You aren’t supposed to go back to being naive, less jaded,
or more unaware. You aren’t meant to return to your blissful
mindlessness, a life in which you didn’t know about
the contrasts, the pain, all of the good and bad that life
can throw at you.
What you get on the other side of healing is greater than
that; you just haven’t experienced it yet to know. What
you get for going through something painful is that
you become more resilient, more self-sufficient, more
empowered.
You realize that nothing will save you, and so you must
begin the work of saving yourself, which is the entire purpose
of your life.