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

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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This is a very important part of the process, because you
are essentially going to be confronting the exact emotions
you have been trying to avoid.
When you stop engaging in self-sabotaging behavior, repressed
emotions that you weren’t even aware of will start to
come up, and you might feel even worse than you did before.
The thing about overcoming self-sabotage is that we don’t
often need to be told what to do. We know what we want
to do, and we know what we need to do. It is simply that
we are being held back by our fear of feeling. To begin
to unravel this emotional holding pattern, we can work
through the following to find more ease and space and
freedom while we change our lives.
THE MOST COMMON EMOTIONS
THAT ARISE WHILE YOU’RE BREAKING
SELF-SABOTAGING BEHAVIORS
The first feeling you are likely to confront is resistance.
This is that generalized sense of being “stuck” or your body
feeling so tense that it is almost “hard,” as though you are
hitting a wall. This feeling is usually a masking emotion
that is preventing you from actually being aware of the
sensations beneath it which are more acute.
When you start to feel resistance, you don’t want to just
“push through it.” In fact, trying to do that means you’ll