This is where we begin.ġ38 BRIANNA WIESTHOW TO START LETTING GOYou cannot force yourself to let go, no matter how muchyou know you want to.Right now, you are being called to release your old self:your prior afflictions, past relationships, and all of the guiltfrom the time you spent denying yourself what you reallywanted and needed out of life. As wecarry unresolved emotions from day to day, we graduallymove our past trauma into our future lives.Releasing the past is a process, and a practice-one thatwe have to learn. We are inpain because though we must change our lives, we areholding onto baggage and debris from the past. It makessense, then, that some of our most profound sufferingcomes from resistance to this natural process. 12Our mental and emotional growth follow a similar process,though it tends to occur much more often. Our bodies show us this as we eliminate and replacecells to the point that some argue we are essentiallycompletely made “new” again every seven years. THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU137CHAPTER 5RELEASING THE PASTTHROUGHOUT THE COURSE of our lives, we will routinelygo through a process of self-reinvention.Over time, we are meant to change, and we are designedto evolve.
In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.Ĭompanion Workbook Now Available: The Official and Authorized Workbook for Brianna Wiest’s The Mountain Is You.ĭownload free PDF of The Mountain Is You, PDF preview courtesy of Thought Catalog Books. 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. 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.įor centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors.
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