The Mountain Is You

This is a book about self-sabotage. It explores why we do it, when we do it, and how we can finally stop. Coexisting but contradictory needs lead to self-sabotaging behaviors, which is why we often resist attempts at change until they seem completely hopeless. By gaining crucial insights from our most harmful habits, building emotional intelligence through a better understanding of our brain and body, releasing past experiences on a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future self, we can step out of our own way and unlock our potential. For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the great challenges we face, especially those that seem impossible to overcome. To climb our mountains, we must do the profound inner work of processing trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we present ourselves for the ascent. In the end, it is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.