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

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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Anyone can piece together an image that looks better.
Anyone can edit and filter and lay picture after picture,
side by side, to create a narrative, a story, a semblance of
the whole. Anyone can buy their way into beauty, anyone
can look nicer if they really try, anyone can convince you
that they are doing better than they really are.
If they are so intent on trying to prove that, it is probably
because they are still so empty inside.
What if you weren’t worried about whether or not you
look bigger or smaller or nicer or better than you did 10
years ago?
What if you were more concerned about whether or not
you gain self-respect, real relationships, emotional freedom,
mental clarity, a job you appreciate, work you respect,
a kinder and more empathetic disposition?
What if your accomplishments were not something you
could photograph or measure, nothing you could loosely
try to communicate across some pixels and status updates?
How are you feeling today? Better than you did yesterday?
More whole, more confident?
The truth is that there is no before and after in life. We are
always in a process of shedding and becoming. That snapshot
moment you’re waiting for, that instance in which
someone dares to look you up again and sees, finally, that
you are thriving...is a game for you, and you alone.