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

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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a hallucination, a trick of the mind and gut. Your future
self can step in and remind you of all that is possible and
empower you to live with certainty, clarity, and grace.
RELEASING YOUR PAST INTO
THE QUANTUM FIELD
When something happens that scares you and then you
do not ever get over that fear, you become traumatized.
Trauma is the experience of disconnecting with a fundamental
source of safety. It happens most severely when
our attachment to our primary caretakers is compromised.
But there is truly an infinite number of ways the world
can traumatize you, and to varying degrees.
There are lots of theories about what trauma is and where
it comes from. Some believe that it is passed down physically
through DNA. 16 Others argue that it is shared
mentally and emotionally through learned patterns and
observations. Most commonly, trauma is believed to be an
interpersonal experience we have in which we were challenged
and then lacked the skills and coping mechanisms
to rise to it.
No matter where it came from, if you have some kind
of lingering trauma, you will know, because you will feel
it. You will feel it physically in your body. You will feel
anxiety, tension, fear, terror, sadness, or guilt. It will be