Growth begins when you act before you're comfortable. Clarity comes from doing, not thinking.

Stop Waiting to Feel “Ready”

You did what you could with the awareness you had. Release guilt. Guilt holds your power hostage.

Forgive Your Former Self

Every decision is either a contraction or expansion of your potential. Choose what grows you.

Choose Expansion Over Fear

The mountain you must climb is the inner work — the emotional healing, belief shifts, and courage it takes to face yourself.

The Mountain is You

You need to become — not fix yourself, but evolve into the version of you who no longer needs the old survival tactics.

You Don’t Need to Be Fixed

You're not "lazy" — you're unconsciously protecting yourself from discomfort, rejection, or fear of failure."Self-sabotage is when you have two desires in conflict."

Self-Sabotage is Self-Protection

Anxiety isn’t your enemy — it’s information. Feelings are messengers asking you to listen, not silence them.

Emotions are Signals, Not Roadblocks

The more you align with your healed self, the more life responds. You attract what you believe you’re worthy of.

Success Isn’t Found, It’s Aligned

Self-sabotage, healing, emotional breakthroughs

THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT SELF-SABOTAGE.Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it-for good.Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential.For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb.In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.

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Brianna Wiest is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Brianna Wiest has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Brianna Wiest's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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