The Mountain Is You

Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery

By: Brianna Wiest

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

©2020 Brianna Wiest (P)2020 Thought Catalog Books

A must for anyone going through life transformation

I've been hyper-focusing on my growth over the last 3 years (since D-Day/Diagnosed at 40 ADHD) and this book is something I wish I listened to 3 years ago. There are so many great points the author brings up, which take a topic and shifts your angle of perspective of it. I found a lot of quotes from the book on google and they are so good. I recommend this book for someone who wants to get to the root of issues in their life, but you've gotta be open and capable of creating new awareness. If you are, this book can help you make sense of things you weren't able to identify or maybe understand before.

There are also a couple of topics covered and discussed that hit real close to home with my ADHD. This book can help you come up with areas to focus on (no pun intended) using CBT.

Moving!

This book is truly moving, it shifted my mind in the right direction. It definitely help change my definition of happiness and what it truly means to go within and getting out of your own way.

Great read!!

I loved this book and all it offered. I didn’t like the narrator. Sounded like a computer generated person. It really distracted from the book for me.

Incredibly helpful

I absolutely love this book! I just went through a deeply saddening breakup and this book helped me realize what I was doing and why. I found it an easy listen and I took copious notes. Highly recommend!

I learned a lot and new ideas.

loved it. informative and enlightening reading. will be utilizing some of the tips provided.

This book has been extremely helpful in my healing journey

I will make this clear that I absolutely hate self-help books. They usually are rooted in toxic positivity and an air of superiority from the author, like “duh, just do this”. I’ve been the type of person who feels worse after a self-help book because it was a jumbled mess of one liners that don’t really get to the root cause of the issue. I grew up with perfectionist parents and grandparents and therefore an environment where we learned to beat ourselves up for failing at anything. This book showed me how to identify and process my feelings and take accountability for my life. Often times we meet people in life that are the victim of every situation. They fall into a category of “everything always happens to me”. This book is the antithesis of that way of thinking. It really forces you to look in the mirror and confront your thoughts, default patterns, and lack of motivation as a product of fear of change. In summary of my opinion, this book isn’t a self-help book. It requires you to look in the mirror and recognize that the only person holding you back is yourself. It is like a literary expansion of the words of the great Taylor Swift, “It’s me. Hi. I’m the problem, it’s me”.

Interesting

The narration was a bit… sharp? I like a soothing narration and I didn’t think this was soothing. Good and helpful information but I’m now wondering if a hard copy would be better….

Inner healing simplified by breaking it down

it spoke to me personally. I felt a lot of the content was geared towards inner healing and understanding the dances that we experience within. there is content I'll share with my wife about how our thoughts can help or hindering us. Light thoughts that inspire and give wisdom vs thoughts that inspire fear.

Helpful and insightful

One of the most helpful and insightful books I e read in a very long time. Great explanation on emotions and best practices to help you through them.

This is a book for anyone that self-sabotage.

This book give insight on how to recognize unhealthy habits. The author create a road map to help with navigating the process of the troubled mind. She gives detail explanation of trauma, brain function, and skills that can incorporated to give a better interpretation of who you are.