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

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way?) rather than whether or not they will actually make
you feel fulfilled and content with who you are.
YOU’RE MORE AFRAID OF YOUR FEELINGS THAN ANYTHING
ELSE.
If you get to the point in life at which the scariest, most
detrimental thing you face is the fear of whether or not
you will be able to handle your own emotions, you are the
one standing in your own way—nothing else is.
YOU’RE BLINDLY CHASING GOALS WITHOUT ASKING
YOURSELF WHY YOU WANT THOSE THINGS.
If you are doing “everything you are supposed to be doing”
and yet you feel empty and depressed at the end of the day,
the issue is probably that you’re not really doing what you
want to be doing; you’ve just adopted someone else’s script
for happiness.
YOU’RE TREATING YOUR COPING MECHANISMS AS THE
PROBLEM.
Instead of trying to incite war on yourself to overcome
your overeating, spending, drinking, sexing—whatever
it is you know you need to improve—ask yourself what
emotional need that thing is filling. Until you do, you will
battle it forever.
YOU VALUE YOUR DOUBT MORE THAN YOUR POTENTIAL.