The Mountain Is You

This is a book about self-sabotage. It explores why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors, which is why we often resist efforts to change until they feel completely futile. By extracting crucial insights from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence through a better understanding of 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 those that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we must 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.