Raquel Silva’s Reviews > The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery > Status Update

"(...)Sometimes, we make choices cause we dont know how to make better ones or that anything else is even possible. Sometimes, we settle for what we're handed cause we dont know we can ask for more. Sometimes, we run our lives on autopilot for long enough that we begin to think we no longer have a choice."

Most people do not actually change their lives until not changing becomes less confortable option.

"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."

"Self-sabotage is a coping mechanism
(...)
Self-sabotage comes from irrational fear"