The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

 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.