The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

by Brianna Wiest

Without breaks, faults, and gaps, nothing could grow and nothing would become.

Your mountain is the block between you and the life you want to live. Facing it is also the only path to your freedom and becoming. You are here because a trigger showed you to your wound, and your wound will show you to your path, and your path will show you to your destiny.

There is nothing holding you back in life more than yourself.

In reality, self-sabotage is simply the presence of an unconscious need that is being fulfilled by the self-sabotaging behavior.

Self-sabotage is what happens when we refuse to consciously meet our innermost needs, often because we do not believe we are capable of handling them.

When we self-sabotage, it is often because we have a negative association between achieving the goal we aspire to and being the kind of person who has or does that thing.

What you believe about your life is what you will make true about your life.

To truly heal, you are going to have to change the way you think. You are going to have to become very conscious of negative and false beliefs and start shifting to a mindset that actually serves you.

The greatest act of self-love is to no longer accept a life you are unhappy with. It is to be able to state the problem plainly and in a straightforward manner.

The path begins right where you are now

Rock bottom becomes a turning point because it is only at that point that most people think: I never want to feel this way again.

Human beings are guided by comfort. They stay close to what feels familiar and reject what doesn’t, even if it’s objectively better for them.

Your new life is going to cost you your old one. It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. It’s going to cost you relationships and friends. It’s going to cost you being liked and understood.

Wanting is the entryway to showing up after resistance.

Don’t worry about doing it well; just do it.

Don’t worry about writing a bestseller, just write. Don’t worry about making a Grammy-winning hit, just make music. Don’t worry about failing, just keep showing up and trying.

Instead of perfection, focus on progress. Instead of having something done perfectly, focus on just getting it done.

if you don’t get started, you’ll never arrive.

When we can only process half of our emotions, we ultimately only live half of the life we really want to.

When we have a goal, dream, or plan, there is no measure of intent. It is only whether you did it or did not.

Stop accepting your own excuses. Stop being complacent with your own justifications. Start quantifying your days by how many healthy, positive things you accomplished, and you will see how quickly you begin to make progress.

Nothing positive, nor beautiful, flows from chaos.

It is very hard to show up as the person you want to be when you are surrounded by an environment that makes you feel like a person you aren’t.