The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
by Brianna Wiest
View on GoodreadsBrianna Wiest's compact self-help framework on self-sabotage as a coherent — if maladaptive — protective response, and the practices for recognizing and updating it.
Core ideas
- Self-sabotage isn't laziness or weakness; it's a sub-conscious defense protecting a self-image or relational pattern that's incompatible with the consciously-stated goal — and the resolution is finding what's actually being protected.
- "Emotional intelligence" is operationalized as the capacity to feel difficult emotions without acting on them — the gap between trigger and response is where the work happens.
- The "mountain" metaphor is identity-based: the obstacle is the construction of the self that learned the protective behavior, not the situation that triggers it.
Published2020
Pages250
ISBN9781949759228
ReadMay 2024
