The Mountain Is You — Brianna Wiest

Summary in 15 minutes. The obstacle that looks external is often built on the inside. Feelings are messengers. Learn to read the message, and old patterns start to loosen. Put down old weight, and let your future self set the direction. You have read the book. Now take the first small step up your own mountain.

Key ideas of "The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery"

Finding the Mountain

The obstacle that looks external is often built on the inside.

1. The Mountain Is You: What the book is about
2. There’s No Such Thing as Self-Sabotage: Every block is meeting a hidden need
3. The Faces of Self-Sabotage: Behaviors we barely notice

Learning the Language of Emotion

Feelings are messengers. Learn to read the message, and old patterns start to loosen.

1. Your Triggers Are Guides: What anger, jealousy and regret are saying
2. Intuition or Fear?: Telling two inner voices apart
3. Why We Resist What We Want: Adjustment shock and microshifts
4. When the Mind Plays Psychic: Imagined futures and anxious stories

Releasing the Past, Building the Future

Put down old weight, and let your future self set the direction.

1. Releasing the Past: You let go by building a new life
2. Your Highest Future Self: Seeing today through the eyes of who you want to become
3. Principles and Purpose: The foundation a new life stands on
4. From Self-Sabotage to Self-Mastery: In the end, you climb yourself

Put It to Work

You have read the book. Now take the first small step up your own mountain.

1. Your 7-Day Plan: One task a day. Tick it off when it’s done.
2. One-Page Cheat Sheet: The whole book at a glance. Save it.
3. Final Word: Toward the Summit: The person who stands on the other side

From the free first chapter

Brianna Wiest is a writer and poet who writes about the mind, emotions and growth. Her 2020 book asks one question throughout: why do we stand in our own way?

Wiest calls the big obstacles in our lives mountains. For one person it is money, for another a relationship or a stalled career. In her view, most of these mountains are built from within, out of old wounds, fears and habits. Hence the title: the mountain is you.

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