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- Author: Brianna Wiest
- ASIN: B0CP3Y1NSQ
- Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP3Y1NSQ
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Highlights
When we can no longer rely on our coping mechanisms to help distract us from the problems in our lives, it can feel as though we’ve hit rock bottom. — location: 55 ^ref-10128
The objective of being human is to grow. — location: 63 ^ref-62089
human beings often need to be faced with no other option but to change before they really do. — location: 67 ^ref-57286
The fact that you are imperfect is not a sign that you have failed; it is a sign that you are human, and more importantly, it is a sign that you still have more potential within you. — location: 71 ^ref-21415
Usually when we have a problem that is circumstantial, we are facing the reality of life. When we have a problem that is chronic, we are facing the reality of ourselves. — location: 76 ^ref-31563
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. — location: 79 ^ref-35007
if you are willing to do the work, you will find that it is the entryway to the breakthrough you have spent your entire life waiting for. — location: 83 ^ref-42825
Your old self can no longer sustain the life you are trying to lead; it is time for reinvention and rebirth. — location: 84 ^ref-55412
You must envision and become one with your future self, the hero of your life that is going to lead you from here. The task in front of you is silent, simple, and monumental. — location: 87 ^ref-6160
You must now learn agility, resilience, and self-understanding. You must change completely, never to be the same again. — location: 88 ^ref-28104
In the end, it is not the mountain that you must master, but yourself. — location: 92 ^ref-51051
THERE IS NOTHING HOLDING you back in life more than yourself. — location: 95 ^ref-11664
self-sabotage is simply the presence of an unconscious need that is being fulfilled by the self-sabotaging behavior. — location: 98 ^ref-62506
We must pinpoint the traumatic event, release unprocessed emotions, find healthier ways to meet our needs, reinvent our self-image, and develop principles such as emotional intelligence and resilience. — location: 99 ^ref-27234
fears and attachments are very often just symptoms of deeper issues for which they do not have any better way to cope. — location: 110 ^ref-8624
Sometimes, we sabotage our professional success because what we really want is to create art, even if it will make us seem less ambitious by society’s measures. — location: 114 ^ref-39671
self-sabotage is very often just a maladaptive coping mechanism, — location: 118 ^ref-30979
If you try to fix the problem on the surface, you will always come up against a wall. — location: 135 ^ref-18605
Your life is defined not only by what you think about it, but also what you think of yourself. — location: 139 ^ref-31330
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. — location: 143 ^ref-7083
Your anxiety around the issue that you’re self-sabotaging is usually a reflection of your limiting belief. — location: 149 ^ref-61360
Maybe you keep eating the wrong foods because they soothe you, but you haven’t stopped to ask what they have to keep soothing you from. — location: 152 ^ref-29311
You have to recognize that being healthy makes you less vulnerable, not more, and that criticism comes with creating anything for the public and isn’t a reason to not do it. — location: 158 ^ref-36124
Self-sabotage is very often the simple product of unfamiliarity, and it is because anything that is foreign, no matter how good, will also be uncomfortable until it is also familiar. — location: 166 ^ref-8197
Even though we think we’re after happiness, we’re actually trying to find whatever we’re most used to. — location: 175 ^ref-13791